Plot
Leenie is a middle-aged Irish-American schoolteacher with three grown daughters. She unexpectedly finds herself pregnant again and is delighted. However, her doctor rejects this possibility because of an unreliable blood test and her age. Thus her symptoms such as troubled sleeping and sickness are misdiagnosed as psychogenic. She is prescribed a host of medications to cope with these difficulties. It later turns out that she is in fact pregnant, and that these medications have been causing irreversible damage to her unborn baby. Faced with the truth that her child will be born with defects, she faces a decision to keep the baby or go against her religious beliefs and have an abortion.Cast
Critical reception
John J. O'Connor of ''The New York Times'' praised the talent involved, but lamented that Burns-Bisogno's play was expanded from a small personal drama into a wider story with "tangential plots and subtexts, most of them having to do with the greed and sheer incompetence of the medical profession". He also noted that characters besides the protagonist are thinly sketched.See also
* Catholicism and abortionReferences
External links
* {{Marvin J. Chomsky 1982 television films 1982 films 1982 drama films 1980s English-language films American Broadcasting Company original films American films based on plays Films about abortion in the United States Films shot in Tennessee Films directed by Marvin J. Chomsky American drama television films 1980s American films