RED AND BLUE by
Female friendships are torn apart by modern political and social truth-telling. When some women get empowered and others don’t, issues of reproduction rights and the specter of racism raising its ugly head causes relationships to implode and lives to explode.
A birthday celebration with friends on opposite sides of the political spectrum ends when Stacie hears the news Roe v Wade is overturned....
A birthday celebration with friends on opposite sides of the political spectrum ends when Stacie hears the news Roe v Wade is overturned....
Female friendships are torn apart by modern political and social truth-telling. When some women get empowered and others don’t, issues of reproduction rights and the specter of racism raising its ugly head causes relationships to implode and lives to explode.
A birthday celebration with friends on opposite sides of the political spectrum ends when Stacie hears the news Roe v Wade is overturned. Stacie, a liberal state representative, will now have to fight a trigger ban that goes into effect. Stacie’s friend Pearl, a conservative health care clinic director, learns that her teenage daughter Belle is pregnant, and pressures her to have the baby. Belle asks Stacie to help her get an abortion, and is at Stacie’s house when Belle has a medical emergency that puts her life at risk unless she gets an abortion soon. The new trigger law prevents Belle from having an abortion until she is in a medical crisis. Belle doesn’t understand the risk, and won’t go to a hospital unless Stacie promises not to tell her mother, Stacie’s friend Pearl. Stacie agrees reluctantly and takes Belle to a hospital in a neighboring state where she has an emergency abortion procedure. Belle’s father, Hayes, is a conservative legislator and seeks revenge against Stacie in a way that is politically expedient and may send Stacie to prison. Belle retaliates against her father for attacking Stacie by weakening his political stature when she posts a photo online showing him at a Klan meeting. Hayes pressures Pearl to exaggerate a past incident involving Stacie’s use of painkillers, and threatens Stacie with blackmail unless she resigns from the legislature, which would tip the balance of the vote so that the abortion ban would become more restrictive. The friendship between Stacie and Pearl explodes as the relationship between Pearl and Hayes implodes with the new revelations.
A birthday celebration with friends on opposite sides of the political spectrum ends when Stacie hears the news Roe v Wade is overturned. Stacie, a liberal state representative, will now have to fight a trigger ban that goes into effect. Stacie’s friend Pearl, a conservative health care clinic director, learns that her teenage daughter Belle is pregnant, and pressures her to have the baby. Belle asks Stacie to help her get an abortion, and is at Stacie’s house when Belle has a medical emergency that puts her life at risk unless she gets an abortion soon. The new trigger law prevents Belle from having an abortion until she is in a medical crisis. Belle doesn’t understand the risk, and won’t go to a hospital unless Stacie promises not to tell her mother, Stacie’s friend Pearl. Stacie agrees reluctantly and takes Belle to a hospital in a neighboring state where she has an emergency abortion procedure. Belle’s father, Hayes, is a conservative legislator and seeks revenge against Stacie in a way that is politically expedient and may send Stacie to prison. Belle retaliates against her father for attacking Stacie by weakening his political stature when she posts a photo online showing him at a Klan meeting. Hayes pressures Pearl to exaggerate a past incident involving Stacie’s use of painkillers, and threatens Stacie with blackmail unless she resigns from the legislature, which would tip the balance of the vote so that the abortion ban would become more restrictive. The friendship between Stacie and Pearl explodes as the relationship between Pearl and Hayes implodes with the new revelations.