“I saw it, and it was like it was twisting and fighting for its life.” So says Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood clinic director and lead character in Unplanned, the anti-abortion propaganda movie – based on the widely debunked memoir by a woman of the same name – which has become a runaway US hit, making over $14 million in its first two weeks.
Unplanned depicts Johnson’s account of her experience as a formerly enthusiastic Planned Parenthood employee, and how – as she describes it – she gradually became jaded, then horrified by her first sight of an abortion. The movie ends with her quitting her job at the clinic to join The Coalition for Life, an anti-abortion group down the street. In real life, Johnson has spent her time since quitting Planned Parenthood in 2009 becoming a prominent advocate for anti-abortion, publishing the memoir on which the film is based in 2011.
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