Actor and activist merge
dallasvoice.comSigourney Weaver Sigourney Weaver talks about her new role as a lesbian abortion activist in ‘Call Jane’ and our country’s backslide on human rights CHRIS AZZOPARDI | Contributing WriterQSyndicate.com Urgent, timely, crucial — as we find ourselves thrust into the post-Roe era, following the U.S.
Supreme Court decision in June to overturn the constitutional right to abortion established by the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, it’s impossible not to use those words when describing Call Jane.
One of the movie’s stars, Sigourney Weaver, was, mostly, just as gobsmacked as the rest of us at the court’s ruling. But the movie, made before the Dobbs v.
Jackson decision sent shivers down the backs of anyone in favor of letting people have full ownership of their bodies, has even more real-world relevance because of it.
