Joe is white, Southern, and chair of the local Right-to-Life committee — until his wife is raped and becomes pregnant. What he preaches and what he chooses are two very different things. As Joe forces Mary to terminate the pregnancy, long-guarded secrets surface and destroy everything he has built.

Purging Mary is an unsparing look at the human cost of moral certainty — set in an examination room at a Women’s Clinic in Beaumont, Texas, where the personal and the political collide without mercy.