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Unplanned - A Movie Review, Sort Of

First, a little background. I went to see the movie "Unplanned" Monday. Seems rather apt, since I wasn't planning on seeing it, until I became aware of the coordinated efforts on the Left to keep this movie from being seen. There was an overall media blackout. I hadn't heard any buzz about it, and aside from an occasional ad on Fox (props to them, by the way), I'd heard nothing about it. Seems that they tried to buy ads on Lifetime, Hallmark and HGTV, who weren't accepting its ads. Twitter was playing Mickey Mouse games with the movie's Twitter account followers, unfollowing them, hiding the account.

And then, irony of ironies, the movie was given an "R" rating! Totally unjustified! I watched a program on broadcast TV a couple of nights ago, where a man was brutally stabbed to death, in a much more graphic display of violence than anything you will see in this movie. So imagine people who think that fifteen year olds should be able to get an abortion without their parents' permission, cannot watch a movie about abortion, without their parents' permission!

Why doesn't the Left want anyone to see this movie? Because it gives an honest portrayal of Planned Parenthood and their place in the abortion industry. Unplanned is the story of Abby Johnson, an idealistic young woman who went to work for PP, and in eight years, became their youngest clinic director in the nation. This story is, as they say in the vernacular, "ripped from the headlines", which provides fodder for countless TV shows and movies, but this movie shows an honest and unflattering peek behind Planned Parenthood's closed doors, which made it  radioactive to the usual media suspects.

But Abby Johnson is no plaster saint. She had one failed marriage and two abortions herself. The pro-life protesters are not air brushed. Some outside the clinics shout "Baby killer", one wears a Grim Reaper outfit. The movie flashes back to Abby's college days where she is recruited as a PP volunteer. The lead actress, Ashley Bratcher, does an excellent job of portraying this woman on her journey to enlightenment. The supporting cast is good, perhaps not as polished as they might be, but considering the size of the budget and the subject matter, the cast is solid. There's even a cameo by "That Pillow Guy", Mike Lindell, who helped finance the project.

The accompanying music was quite good, considering the fact that a number of people refused to license their music for use in the movie.

Unplanned is the 'Little Movie That Could', overcoming opposition and great odds to tell a story that every teenage child in the country should see, before they consider an abortion for themselves, or helping a friend to get one.



In spite of all the obstacles placed in its way, "Unplanned" finished in 5th place at the box office this weekend. It is heart tugging and heart breaking at times, but well worth the price of admission. I give it four out of five stars.

As Alexandra DeSanctis put it, "None of it is easy to watch. But none of it is a lie."

Not the Onion...

Update: Full quote:

“Here at Planned Parenthood, we firmly believe that every person has the right to live, work, and raise a family freely and without the threat of deportation or separation.”

If only deportation was the worst thing to happen to every person that entered Planned Parenthood!

Don't Worry! We Can Still Sell the Parts!

T-Shirts Would Have Been More Cost Effective

Black Livers Matter

"I Sold His Liver With Some Fava Beans and a Nice Chianti"

Planned Parenthood: Parts is Parts

"Just One Child..."

Saw this cartoon over at Blonde Sagacity (ain't Gary Varvel great?), but it's not the only instance of liberal hypocrisy on this point. The CAFE standards, for example, making cars lighter and lighter, in order to achieve fuel economy at the expense of safety. Apply the "if it saved just one child's life" standard to making cars more survivable in a crash and tell me which side the liberals fall on?

Private Charity, Public Coercion

To say the Susan G. Komen Foundation, a private Charity, was embroiled in controversy this week, would be an understatement. What seemed at first blush to be a refocusing on the charity's primary goal of finding a cure for breast cancer, was to reduce or eliminate contributions to organizations that did not do any actual breast cancer screening. Logically, one would assume that this would free up those funds to go to organizations that do. Yea!

Not so fast! If one of the organizations that received this money in the past, but had no actual screening for breast cancer was Planned (Not) Parenthood, then this was a right wing "attack" on Planned Parenthood specifically and abortion in general.

If there is one thing the Obama economy has taught many of us, is that we have to make do with less. Spending patterns that may have made sense in times of prosperity (Are you listening, state and federal governments?) have to be sacrificed in failing and failed economic times.

But, as Rush Limbaugh is frequently heard to say, "Follow the money". Moving one's resources from one organization which claims to be helping in the fight against breast cancer to another which promises to be more effective is not an "attack" on abortion, other than the fact that money is fungible, and getting Komen to pay for "A" frees up money that can be used for "B".

And Planned Parenthood is all about the money!

In Planned Parenthood's annual report, it stated it received $500 million in tax dollars. According to documented stories, the salary of Planned Parenthood's president is $353,000. Its eight top executives received over $2 million. Salaries of the CEOs at their 81 facilities were over $12.8 million. The average salary for a CEO at a facility is over $158,000. These don't include expense accounts, etc.

So, Planned Parenthood, with their highly paid executives, receives a half a billion* in taxpayer dollars and squeals like a stuck pig when a smaller, private charity decides their money might have greater benefit to, say, poor women, if it were directed to an organization that actually screens for breast cancer? ? Got it!

And in all this, Planned Parenthood plays the victim. One thing this past week has once again demonstrated, what an excellent PR organization they have. Besides the MSM, I mean. How else could they have suckled at the teat of government (pun intended) for so many years and still manage to publicly coerce anyone who wishes to fund women's health, where they don't get a piece of the action?

Too bad they're liberals. I could see an #Occupy Planned Parenthood if they weren't.

*Figure adjusted for inflation, post morning coffee.

Cross posted at LCR, Say Anything.

Planned Parenthood- "The Wal-Mart of Abortion"

A billion dollars in revenue. They don't pay taxes. They receive $330 million in tax dollars a year. They contribute millions to politicians (97% to Democrats). They had over $100 Million surplus last year.

Why are we giving them so much money?

US taxpayers…shouldn’t have to pay taxes to an organization that uses your money to politicize, yes in upcoming elections, candidates who’ll give them more of your tax money. This is unconscionable.

-Michele Bachmann (R-MN)

Oh, and Michele for VP!!

Hat tip Hot Air
Cross posted at Say Anything