My Body, My Child

My Body, My Child
Genre	Drama
Written by	Louisa Burns-Bisogno
Directed by	Marvin J. Chomsky
Starring	Vanessa Redgrave Jack Albertson Joseph Campanella Stephen Elliott James Naughton
Theme music composer	Charles Gross
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
Production
Executive producer(s)	Herbert Brodkin
Producer(s)	Thomas De Wolfe Robert Berger (supervising)
Cinematography	Tony Imi
Editor(s)	Robert M. Reitano Ronald Roose
Running time	100 minutes
Production company(s)	Titus Productions
Distributor	ABC
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	April 12, 1982

My Body, My Child is a 1982 television film directed by Marvin J. Chomsky and starring Vanessa Redgrave. It premiered on ABC on 12 April 1982. It includes early performances by future Sex and the City co-stars, Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon. It is also the final television role of Jack Albertson, who was subsequently nominated posthumously for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie.

Leenie (Redgrave) is a middle-aged Irish-American schoolteacher with three grown daughters. Yet she unexpectedly finds herself pregnant again and is delighted. However her doctor rejects this possibility because of an unreliable blood test and her age. Thus her symptoms such as troubled sleeping and sickness are mis-diagnosed as psychogenic. She is prescribed a host of medications to cope with these difficulties. However it later turns out that she is in fact pregnant and that these medications have been causing irreversible damage to her unborn baby. Faced with the truth that her child will be born with defects, she faces a decision to keep the baby or go against her religious beliefs and have an abortion.

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