Unplanned, a movie about abortion that changes everything.

This is Dr. Jim Denison's The Daily Article Podcast for Friday, March 29th, 2019.

If you're like most of us, you'd rather not read another article about abortion this morning.

The subject is divisive, the debate vitriolic.

If you haven't had an abortion, if you don't love someone

who has, or if you're not considering an abortion personally, it can be tempting to ignore the

issue. Then comes a movie that changes everything. Unplanned is being released today. My wife

and I were invited to attend an advanced screening of the film a few weeks ago. It makes the

issue of abortion so real and relevant

that everyone should see the film. Here's what I mean. According to Planned Parenthood,

one in four American women will have an abortion by the age of 45. How many actual women is this?

Here are my calculations. The Census Bureau reports that 77.4% of the American population is over the age of 18, which

equates to 253,252,800 people. 50.8% of this population is female, which equates to 128,652,422

people. According to the Kaiser Foundation, 34% of this population is between the ages of 18 and 45,

which equates to 43,741,823 people. One fourth of this population, the number who have had abortions, according to Planned Parenthood, is 10,935,455 women.

In other words, only 8.5% of the American female adult population and 4.3% of the entire American adult population has personally experienced an abortion.

Even if you dispute my calculations, you'd have to agree that the vast majority of Americans

who support abortion have never experienced one.

Unplanned tells the story of a woman who became a Planned Parenthood Clinic director,

then personally witnessed an abortion gun awry. This scene is apparently what caused the movie

to be rated R, though I've seen far more violence in PG-13 movies. Her experience changed

her life. I am encouraging every person reading this article,

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