![]() ![]() But at the Capitol, he finds himself in the middle of a tense scene full of pro-life “blueshirts,” pro-choice “orangeshirts,” and blustering politicians playing political games as Wendy Davis tries to run out the clock at midnight. Until today, Alex didn’t know what a filibuster was, and he’d never given a moment’s thought to how he felt about abortion. Cassie is at the Texas State Capitol to protest Wendy Davis’s historic filibuster of the abortion bill HB2, and she’s rallying everyone she knows to join her. At last, he feels like his luck might be changing. But on June 25, 2013, he gets a call for help from Cassie Ramirez, the prettiest girl in school. In the past twelve months, he’s lost his best friend, become the target of the two biggest bullies at school, and been sentenced to community service. As the clock ticks forward to midnight during Wendy Davis’s historic filibuster of the abortion bill HB2 in June 2013, an Austin teen grapples with his past mistakes, the complex issue of abortion, and the kind of person he wants to be. ![]()
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