Unplanned, if you have not heard, is an anti-abortion movie. They have no qualms of showing you that in the first few minutes of the film in a scene that made this girl, who has seen thousands of horror movies, squirm and cover her eyes.
They show a woman getting an abortion, something that we have seen before, but in a way that is really hard to watch. Abby, the central figure, was doing a sonogram on a woman as it was happening. You can see a fully formed fetus being sucked out. You can be pro-choice and still be horrified by that image that will stay with you for a long time.
It does not stop there, Abby takes the abortion pill to terminate a pregnancy. She starts bleeding, so she runs into the shower. As she is taking the shower, the fetus drops out of her and she throws it in the toilet.
And there is more. A teenager has an abortion done and something goes wrong. She is bleeding profusely. They rush her back into the room and you just see them sucking up even more blood.
That is just the graphic scenes. The movie portrays the female boss as an extreme heartless bitch. She is like we need to do abortions and that is how we make our money. When Abby takes a pregnancy test and it turns out positive, the boss says to her very abruptly I can handle that for you.
Later on in the movie, the two women have it out and Abby is reprimanded for insubordination. Shortly, after that, she witnessed the abortion on the sonogram and quits.
Which makes think that Abby could be a disgruntled employee getting revenge on Planned Parenthood for whatever reason.
I do not know how Planned Parenthood works internally nor what goes during an abortion. I am sure some of it they got right, and I am also sure they exaggerated a lot of it to make their point.
It is a one-sided story where abortion is bad and that is it.
They say things like Scared Straight do not work. Fear does not tell someone not to do something. Which is why I hate those smoking commercials.
I have my opinion on abortion, they have theirs. When it comes to the movie, I do not think it is appropriate for teens. I don’t even think it is appropriate for adults and I have seen a lot of gruesome deaths in horror movies and this was way too much for me. Give me Saw anyday of the week over this.
When it comes to why I saw the movie, I believe in knowing both sides of the story. I enjoy watching movies about Faith. This is not about faith, it is about preaching that abortion is wrong. Yet, they do not offer any alternatives. They make it seem like women go into the Planned Parenthood, have the abortion and are like let’s go party. No woman I know, whoever had an abortion was like that. They are regrets, but not as many if they had the child at that time.
I was not going to go there, but I am. It is not our place to tell someone else what to do with their bodies.
I just think it is ridiculous that the people who are so anti-abortion are the same ones who do not want to give that woman and her child healthcare or any care. Life does not stop mattering when you are born. That is when it starts. You cannot tell someone to have a baby and not offer her any help. If the men want her to have it so badly, then how about they raise their child after it is born. We won’t be debating abortion again after that.
I can see the creators of this movie being like well now they know how we feel when they depict abortion. Which I guess makes sense, except we don’t show you all those graphic scenes. Although, they are the first group to complain if there is there violence on TV. It works both ways. And I wish they would have shown even a little something from the other side of the issue.
We have become so onesided and that is very dangerous. See what is going on in America today. Thus, why this movie is so controversial and rightfully so.
