‘Unplanned’ Abortion Movie Has Zero Nudity or Sex. Gets 'R' Rating Anyway
The Motion Picture Association of America officially gave the upcoming abortion film “Unplanned” an “R” rating Friday for “some disturbing/bloody images” of aborted babies.
Movies are rated R for profanity, nudity, sex or violence. “Unplanned” contains no profanity, nudity or sex.
“Ironically, the MPAA seems to be indirectly endorsing the pro-life position: namely that abortion is an act of violence,” writers and directors Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman told Movieguide.
The film tells the true story of former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson who worked at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas, until 2009 when she left the organization after assisting in an ultrasound-guided abortion of a 13-week-old unborn baby.
Johnson was Planned Parenthood’s youngest director of a clinic in the nation.
She helped over 22,000 women have abortions during her time at the clinic.
Planned Parenthood named Johnson as its employee of the year in 2008.
She worked at the abortion provider for eight years before leaving the group.
Johnson also had a medication abortion before she became pro-life.
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The R rating will mean that “many teenage women in this country who can legally obtain an actual abortion without parental permission will be prohibited from going to see our film containing simulated images of abortion, without obtaining parental permission,” Solomon and Konzelman also said, noting the double-edged sword of the rating.
A parent or guardian, however, can accompany a child younger than 17 to an R-rated film.
“We are pushing the boundaries of what has never been before on such a wide scale by showing America exactly what abortion is — and abortion is disturbing,” Johnson said in a statement. “It’s violent.”
Johnson is the founder of pro-life group And Then There Were None, which helps abortion workers leave the industry.
It also helps women who’ve had abortions and are suffering. The group was founded in 2012.
Since leaving Planned Parenthood, Johnson has helped roughly 500 former abortion workers leave their jobs and find other careers outside of the abortion industry.
Seven of those workers were abortion doctors.
“No one will walk away from seeing this movie and say ‘I didn’t know,’” Johnson said in the statement.
“Unplanned” hits theaters on March 29.
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