A Sad Movie

Unplanned was shown at Spirit of Christ Catholic Community last evening. I had not see the highly appraised movie and wanted to see what the movie could possibly say about abortion. When our priest got up at the beginning and gave a disclaimer about what would be shown at the beginning of the movie, I felt nervous.  I do not like to see anything bloody or scary. I felt better after he said it was all computer generated and not reality.

The story is about Abby Johnson, a young woman who began working in a Planned Parenthood clinic. She has gone through an abortion by pill and wonders why she was not told about the pain involved. She is told to tell untruths to convince those wanting abortions that it isn't painful or wrong. She continues getting promotions, frowned on by her parents who wish she would not work at Planned Parenthood, but the young woman sees nothing wrong and is proud of her accomplishments.

When she receives an award and hears her supervisor say that there is a need to perform more abortions she begins to realize that the clinic is not there to assist the young pregnant mothers, but to make money. When she is asked to be present at an actual abortion where she watches as a fetus is sucked out of the womb this makes her ill and angry. (I have heard that at certain abortions the fetus comes out in pieces all though the movie just showed the baby disappearing as the fetus is sucked out.)

During the time she is working at the clinic there are people outside the clinic praying and trying to discourage the young women to not enter the clinic where murder will be performed. To discourage the praying people, water is turned on to make them move away.  Abby, who is now the Director of the clinic, realizes she is wrong and she quits working at the clinic and joins those praying outside the clinic and is sued by the large and rich group in Planned Parenthood. Abby wins the court case and
a happy and big cheer goes up when the clinic is closed and the sign comes down.

One of the most moving parts for me, other than watching an abortion, was the fence where red and white flowers were placed on the fence to represent the babies that had been aborted. A long fence with  lots of flowers!  It is so sad to know that so many abortions happen in those clinics. The ads are that  Planned Parenthood is there to give information of vital reproductive health care, sex education, and informing those seeking abortions on other alternatives. Abby thought she was helping woman until she found out it was a money making corporation and not so much a helping clinic.

"I've noticed that everyone

for abortion has already

been born."

Ronald Reagan