Makers of Hit Movies “God’s Not Dead” and “I Can Only Imagine” Make New Pro-Life Movie “Unplanned”

By Micaiah Bilger
Life News

The makers of the hit movie “God’s Not Dead” are coming out with a new film about the life of Abby Johnson.

A former Planned Parenthood director, Johnson became a pro-life advocate as a result of a 40 Days for Life outreach in her community. Now, she runs an organization called And Then There Were None that helps abortion clinic workers leave the industry.

Compelled by her conversion story, film writers/directors Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon of “God’s Not Dead” and “I Can Only Imagine” fame decided to turn Johnson’s book “Unplanned” into a film of the same name, the Daily Wire reports.

“Unplanned,” a drama based on Johnson’s memoir, is scheduled for release in the spring of 2019.

Shawn Carney, president of 40 Days for Life and a friend of Johnson’s, said he has been working with the film directors for years, but they did not announce anything publicly until now. A Hollywood Reporter article leaked news about the film earlier this week.

“Needless to say, Planned Parenthood is not happy about this movie, so please keep this project in prayer as there is much going on behind the scenes,” Carney wrote on 40 Days for Life’s blog.

 “You don’t need me to tell you that the media portrays many pro-life people as violent or judgmental. This movie will show the love, mercy, and joy that have helped save thousands of babies and helped hundreds of abortion workers leave their jobs.”

The film will follow Johnson as a director of Planned Parenthood and later as a pro-life advocate with a strong desire to help women. Johnson, played by Ashley Bratcher (“War Room” and “90 Minutes in Heaven”), oversaw approximately 22,000 abortions at Planned Parenthood before she witnessed the ultrasound of an unborn baby that changed her life.

Konzelman and Solomon said Johnson’s story is compelling because she experienced both sides of the abortion battle.

They told the Daily Wire:

“The one thing that was always true for Abby was that all she ever wanted to do was help women. And the great thing is it’s not only true, but it’s endearing in terms of creating audience empathy. It’s something that female viewers in particular should be able to relate to: Here’s a young woman who underwent two abortions herself… then served as a volunteer escort, counselor, and clinic director, becoming one of the youngest clinic directors in the country, and ultimately winning ’employee of the year’ award for her entire affiliate, before switching sides." 

 "But when she saw the real-time image on an ultrasound screen of one child fighting for its life, against the intrusion of the suction catheter that was about to end its existence, it changed her entire belief system in the space of a few seconds. Because she realized that what she was looking at was undeniably human and very much alive… until suddenly it wasn’t.

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New Pro-Life Film “Voiceless” Opens Next Month, Here’s More From the Director and Star of the Movie

By Josh Shepherd
Life News

Releasing nationwide on October 7, the independent film Voiceless hopes to shift the national conversation around unplanned pregnancies—by showing the impact one church can make through local outreach and united pro-life advocacy.

“My struggle has always been with the church, as much as it has been having confrontation with the world,” says Pat Necerato, a street-preacher-turned-filmmaker who wrote and directed Voiceless. “I wanted to create a film to challenge the church to get involved in the public square.”

With a nearly million-dollar budget and slated for release in hundreds of theaters,Voiceless aims higher than most faith-based films in terms of production quality.

But it’s the story and true-to-life script, born from Necerato’s own experiences, that make it uniquely suited to help move the pro-life cause out of cultural stalemate.

In the nation’s capital city, Voiceless will premiere October 2 at a most unlikely venue: projected on a large screen outside the U.S. Supreme Court.

Five Years in the Making

“You always write from personal experience,” says Necerato. “I was pretty much all of the characters in this movie at one point or another.”

Voiceless centers on Jesse Dean, an Army veteran who moves to Philadelphia with his wife to work at a local church. While his hands-on outreach gives him inroads into the community—teaching free boxing classes, for starters—it begins a series of increasingly tense conversations within the church.

“I cannot tell you how many times I’ve heard Christians, even pastors, say: We need to be saving souls, not so much worried about confronting evil,” recalls Necerato, echoing a key scene in the movie.

 “Those words never really jived well with my theology that Christ is King, He can redeem any aspect of our world, and He has called Christians to be saved and be a part of it. That’s the big picture.”

The story of Voiceless continues 

Blogger's comments:

It's been a long held belief of mine that if the Church had been involved in the public square on abortion, the tide of public opinion would have turned decades ago. Roe v Wade would have been overturned.

Jesus called the Church to be Salt & Light.  Salt preserves and light scatters darkness.  This applies not only to abortion, but to all sin in our society.  How can the Church claim to care for souls, when 60 million souls were aborted before they took their first breath.

While the Church stays within the safety of their walled fortresses, we live in a sick, immoral society of sin and degradation. With few exceptions, it is the sheep and not the shepherds who are on the front lines of this spiritual war. The enemy of our soul, Satan, wants to "steal, killl and destroy", but Jesus said he came to give "life in all its fullness". 

Jesus said he would separate the sheep from the goats; His true followers from those in name only. Despite the lack of support from most clergy, the sheep will continue to follow the Good Shepherd and His leading in Satan's war against humanity until His return.

  "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me". John 10:27