Act 2, Scene 2

Question 1

(1) Connie: Hello?

Answer 1

Connie?

Question 2

(2) Connie: How you doin’, Norma? Been a while.

Answer 2

Connie - oh babe - I miss you so much!

Question 3

(3) Connie: Yeah?

Answer 3

Listen, sugar…Gloria’s all right, and I love Los Angeles…But I’m sick to death of bein’ dragged all over the country, paraded around like the five-legged pony in some freak show? And if that wasn’t bad enough?

Question 4

(4) Connie: What happened, Pixie?

Answer 4

Sarah Weddington. Wrote a damn book.

Question 5

(5) Sarah: touched a sympathetic chord.

Answer 5

Yeah, and what else did you say?

Question 6

(6) Sarah: board of NARAL…

Answer 6

And on a personal note?

Question 7

(7) Sarah: dance every dance!

Answer 7

And on a personal -

Question 8

(8) Sarah: That was good, wasn’t it?

Answer 8

Page one! Case you forgot. Like you forgot to mention in that pizza parlor! ‘Less you got a problem talkin’ about -

Question 9

(9) Sarah: my period was late…

Answer 9

Uh huh…

Question 10

(10) Sarah: in front of several hundred -

Answer 10

Get to the good part.

Question 11

(11) Sarah: My parents would be so disappointed in me…

Answer 11

So…

Question 12

(12) Sarah: no one ever finds out about this.

Answer 12

How come you didn’t want anyone to find out?

Question 13

(13) Sarah: Because it was personal -

Answer 13

You sound ashamed.

Question 14

(14) Sarah: Certainly not!

Answer 14

You sound it.

Question 15

(15) Sarah: one of the lucky ones.

Answer 15

Then why didn’t you tell me in that pizza parlor?

Question 16

(16) Sarah: it wasn’t relevant!

Answer 16

No? If you wanted to help me get an abortion - why didn’t you just tell me where you got yours?

Question 17

(17) Sarah: Norma, it was an entirely different -

Answer 17

You had the money, I didn’t. That’s the difference.

Question 18

(18) Sarah: I was building a case to help all women.

Answer 18

Yeah, you didn’t give a damn about Roe the person, all you cared about was Roe that case! Getting back to my story - Connie?

Question 19

(19) Sarah: in the interest of history-

Answer 19

Whatever.

Question 20

(20) Sarah: In the interest of truth!

Answer 20

You’re the only one who ever gave a damn, Connie.

Question 21

(21) Connie: she’ll come visit.

Answer 21

Yeah, now that I’m somebody, maybe she’ll even bring her kid. Oh, I love you so much, Connie, I just wanna come home!

Question 22

(22) Connie: Bout time.

Answer 22

Back in Dallas, Connie and me started working full time in abortion clinics. They all wanted Jane Roe for marketing director.

Question 23

(23) Sarah: I’ll bet.

Answer 23

We helped hundreds of women.

Question 24

(24) Connie: Sure did, babe.

Answer 24

And after a while…Well, some of them just about broke my heart. [coke] What? It was the 90s. Good morning, welcome to A Choice for Women, I’m Norma.

Question 25

(25) PW1: Hi.

Answer 25

Oh, sugar, you’re in the wrong place. The OB-GYN is right upstairs.

Question 26

(26) PW1: I know where I am.

Answer 26

But - you’re showing…You gotta be six months…

Question 27

(27) PW1: I know. But I have to do this.

Answer 27

Well, it’s too late!

Question 28

(28) PW1: you’re not a doctor-

Answer 28

Girl, get the fuck out of here!

Question 29

(29) Doctor: her baby had no brain! [phone rings]

Answer 29

Do you mind? Good morning, A Choice for Women. Please hold. Hi there.

Question 30

(30) PW2: Roe v. Wade.

Answer 30

That’s okay, sugar.

Question 31

(31) PW2: abortions without you.

Answer 31

Sugar, how many have you had?

Question 32

(32) PW2: Two.

Answer 32

So this’ll be three…And you don’t feel…?

Question 33

(33) PW2: don’t even know me.

Answer 33

Okay, but… three-?

Question 34

(34) Sarah: 2’s okay, but 3-

Answer 34

Well, I…I…This ain’t birth control!

Question 35

(35) PW2: What’s wrong with you?!

Answer 35

Nobody likes abortion, right, Sarah? Ain’t that what you said in your book?

Question 36

(36) Sarah: point was that-

Answer 36

I still believed in a woman’s right to get one!