No One Asked YouMolly Gaebe, a writer for Abortion Access Front, protests in front of the Supreme Court in a scene from the documentary. Photo: CourtesyDerenda Hancock, a longtime abortion clinic escort at the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, is sprawled across a blue hospital gurney, the brim of her cowboy hat shading her eyes. “This is how you party with abortion people,” Lizz Winstead, the co-creator of thezoom out to reveal a nearly empty, nondescript parking lot.
I spotted a pair of elderly women wrapped in fuzzy, star-covered blankets cuddled up on a couch; a six-foot-something pilot in full uniform leaning After a few words from one of the event’s organizers, the room dimmed and the screen flickered to life. Winstead’s face was projected onto the bar’s wall; not a part of the film, but a specialized video message for the occasion. Finally, the doc began, and if the laughter around me was to be believed, Leitman’s doc is an abortion riot that we need to “make abortion great again.”