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Samantha Bee sounds the alarm on abortion access with pre-Election Day release of short film: 'Now really is the time'

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01.11.2024

Comedian Samantha Bee says now "really is the time" to get the word out about the film she executive produced focused on reproductive rights, which is why the Academy Award-nominated project is being made available to watch for free ahead of Election Day.

"Red, White and Blue" stars Brittany Snow as a single mom living in Arkansas who "is forced to cross state lines in search of a critically urgent and necessary abortion." Its writer and director, Nazrin Choudhury, penned the script for the 23-minute film hours after the Supreme Court's 2022 decision to strike down Roe v. Wade.

The emotional film, Bee said, has a way of "physicalizing all of these kind of ephemeral ideas about women's health care and access to abortion."

"We talk about it and argue about it, but for a lot of people, they feel that it isn't really practical to their lives. And so I think that it makes real the stakes of the issue of women's bodily autonomy," Bee, a longtime women's........

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