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Deciding Vote
Directed by Robert J. Lyons, Jeremy Workman · Starring George M. Michaels · 2023
Assemblyman George Michaels casts the vote that legalizes abortion in New York, a choice of conscience that ends his political career.
An Emmy-nominated portrait of one lawmaker whose single vote changed history and cost him everything.
The lawmaker George Michaels casts a historic vote to legalize abortion which destroys his political career, in a short documentary directed by Jeremy Workman and Rob Lyons, with support from the actress Laura Linney. Em
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