Set in 1968 Chicago, “Call Jane” sees Elizabeth Banks playing Joy, a surburban housewife whose ordinary life gets turned upside down when her pregnancy leads to a life-threatening heart condition. In our exclusive clip of the Phyllis Nagy-directed drama, Joy petitions the (all-male) Board of a hospital to permit her an emergency termination of her pregnancy, which is putting her own life in danger.
The group proceeds to decide Joy’s fate as if she’s not even in the room. Any chance that she can survive the pregnancy seems to be enough to convince them that an abortion isn’t an option. As Joy observes, a “healthy baby” is all that matters