NAME OF FILM: JACKSON
DIRECTOR(S): Maisie Crow
GENRE: Documentary Film
SYNOPSIS: A single mother, an abortion clinic director and fervent pro-lifer lay bare their stakes in the fight of one of the last remaining abortion clinics to stay open against the pro-life movement’s efforts to make abortions illegal in the Deep South.
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