A member mentioned the movie Unplanned, and I looked to see if it was showing in our area. I was sure the dates would be limited.
We ordered tickets online and went to the Razorback theater right after church on Sunday.
I had been hearing about Abby Johnson, but never realized they could film and distribute a movie that would reach the general population. When I took a film course at Regent University, the Christian films were not much better than "The Cross and the Switchblade," starring Pat Boone and the CHPs star. Erik Estrada.
This movie is natural and realistic, with high production values. Someone said, "Read the book," so I got the Kindle and read it aftwards, and it is almost verbatim the script of the movie. Unlike Disney and Spike Jones, who ruined everything good they touched from the past, the movie people told the story of the book with brutal honesty.
I told my wife that it took this kind of person to create a message that would permanently damage Planned Parenthood, ELCA, and Thrivent - without even getting into the sale of baby body parts.
Like other activists, Abby Johnson got into the abortion business with the idea of helping young women and living with their own past abortions. I have heard that story before, solving the guilt issue by joining the movement and its lies, hypocrisy, and greed.
Some divine causes of this drama - a pig-headed but naive girl coming from a pro-life family, married to a pro-life evangelical, and friended by pro-life activists. The power of the Word of God against this demonic activity is apparent throughout the film and book. The book also provides more background about Abby finding peace and forgiveness through the Word of God.
Ultrasound-Guided Destruction, in Exquisite Detail
We are a graphic society today, so it is important that the movie begins with the turning point from the beginning of the book, the ultrasound-guided abortion. Johnson, who was a psychology degree holder and MA in counseling, was not medically trained. She was called in to assist on the first abortion she had witnessed For the first time, this procedure (slower and "safer") showed the baby actively struggling against the vacuum and being destroyed by the doctor's instrument.
I left the LCA before the ELCA merger, because the pro-life actions of Chicago in 1978 had been taken apart soon after. I saw how mainline denominations, social welfare agencies, public education, medicine, and law were all engaged in making abortion into birth control, race control, and ultimately medical products.
ELCA - Oh So Rich and Big!
It did not take me long to see how WELS and the LCMS were glad to be cozy with ELCA, happy to quash criticism of their big sister, and envious of that money and power in the big denomination. The "conservatives" want to act superior, but they have no trouble with ELCA paying for abortions with their health plan - no questions asked. They do not mind ELCA's lavender mafia, but that group is also pan-synodical.
There was only a little dust-up in the LCMS when it was revealed Thrivent gave matching funds to Planned Parenthood, which is "non-profit, but run as a business," as the movie proclaims. This blog preceded that scoop by about five years, thanks to Brett Meyer.
Fat Pockets, Dying Synods
Matt the Fatt gets $50-60 million and year from Thrivent, and the others get more or less. Like Marvin Schwan, Thrivent illustrates how corrupting mammon decimates those who sell their souls to their Father Below.
Think about your free trinkets from Thrivent when you watch that scene in "Unplanned" - abortion is big money. There must be many reasons why the power-players do so much to protect this genocide of the innocent.
Abby Johnson used the human pesticide called RU-486, which kills the baby and expels it painfully from the mother. This "morning after" pill is actually used for up to 8 weeks. She suffered horribly after taking that set of pills.
The abortion and baby-parts business is full of lies and cover-ups, because the Chief Sponsor is a murderer and the Father of Lies.
He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. John 8:44
The Lobby for Life - God's Word Is Effective
I was appalled by some pro-life activists who wanted to attack young women for considering abortion. God brought together an effective campaigner for life and Abby Johnson, an award-winning abortion center director.
As they say about St. Paul, the hardest substance makes the best instrument. Abby's tunnel-vision and success brought her to the point where the prayers, Christian worship, the Word, and her husband's logic forced the ultimate decision. She needed the job, but she had seen the real face of baby genocide, her own face in the mirror of that tragedy.
I scanned my desk, filled with an impulse to pack it up immediately, and then my eyes fell on the small card from Elizabeth. For two years, that two-by-three-inch card with the soft pink tulip and handwritten note had been sitting on my desk in my little note holder. Of all the cards I’ve received over the years, I wondered, why has that one remained front and center? “The LORD has done great things for us and we are filled with JOY.” PSALM 126:3 I am praying for you, Abby! ~ Elizabeth
Johnson, Abby. Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line (p. 144). Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
Outside the fence, the pro-life activists prayed for the women going in and the staff who escorted them. Over time, they kept many from giving up that baby. And they made Abby realize something.
I am on the wrong side of the fence. I am on the wrong side of the fence! I knew what I had to do.
Johnson, Abby. Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line (p. 145). Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
