It’s about abortion, and about how those who support it so often ignore or deny or obscure its reality.
But Unplanned is not, ultimately, about Planned Parenthood. The film takes great pains to reveal the sinister agenda of the Planned Parenthood officials, at times coming across as heavy-handed. And then it was just gone.” It was the moment she knew she had to leave Planned Parenthood.
And it was like it was twisting and fighting for its life. “I saw it,” Abby says after witnessing an abortion on an ultrasound. Instead of acknowledging that scientific reality, those who support abortion prefer to talk about women’s rights and women’s health care, and bodily autonomy, and reproductive freedom, and the right to choose.īut the right to choose what? That’s what Unplanned shows anyone with the courage to look. There is a legitimate debate about how to balance the competing rights at stake in abortion - the right to life of the unborn human being and his or her mother’s right to autonomy, even over the life inside her.īut that debate can flourish only when the terms are accurately defined, when both sides admit that every abortion takes an innocent human life. Lying about abortion is what its defenders do best. And we witness the bloody aftermath of a botched abortion performed on a teenage girl who didn’t want an abortion in the first place.
We’re shown the torturous visuals of her own chemical abortion, which she suffers through at home alone in her bathroom. The initial 15 minutes feature Abby’s first experience holding ultrasound tools while a Planned Parenthood doctor performs a surgical abortion. The narrator promises at the outset that her story will be difficult to watch, that it doesn’t come wrapped up in a tidy bow, that it will probably “make you squirm a bit.” And it does. Perhaps merely depicting the grisly truth of abortion is enough. It’s unlikely that an abortion-rights supporter could sit through the entire movie, let alone come away convinced that abortion is immoral. There’s no question that the film demonizes Planned Parenthood and glorifies pro-lifers who pray on the sidewalk outside clinics. The film depicts abortion unflinchingly - earning it an R rating - and predictably has been dismissed by mainstream sources as “propaganda” and “an unabashed hit-job.” But unfortunately for critics, the character Abby Johnson is based on a real person of the same name, a former Planned Parenthood clinic director who now directs a pro-life organization.
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