The plot line of the mother is inspired by the real life events of Kira Johnson, who died after experiencing complications from a routine C-section on April 13, 2016. Her family now advocates with an organization called 4Kira4Moms to make sure what happened to Kira never happens again.
John Billingsley played a similar role of a Doctor accused of biased tendencies, especially against a pregnant African-American woman, but ended up being prosecuted, in What the Constitution Greens to Me (2020).
The production code was 2LAP20.