Call it the perennial female condition…any country, any season, any century, a woman between fifteen and fifty is either trying to have a baby or trying not to have a baby

The A Word looks at the pressures exerted by love, family, career, religion and society on four young women. From a high school senior in a single parent household to the wife of a wealthy businessman in India, from a young black woman struggling to make a name for herself in an all-white office to the happily-married mom who's told her unborn baby has big problems…four women, four takes on a controversial subject.