Alexis Bonner

My mother made me go see this with her on the week it premiered, with a bunch of her older friends, and if I hadn't been sandwiched in-between her and one of her friends, I would have bolted from the theatre. It was incredibly uncomfortable and triggering to watch unfold on the screen, and the fact that I couldn't escape made it worse. I'm scarred from that experience, and no one who values the health of those they've taken to see this movie should ever coerce their loved ones or friends into watching this movie. Hilariously, in contradiction to the movie's plot, it needs to be a choice the person makes. I read a review that said, "something we were no expecting(I am paraphrasing)" which referred to the very vivid and vulgar depictions of in-utero extractions of a late abortion. I am a person who can appreciate a little political agenda within a movie, given that it actually wants to help the world and not just shame us into submission like our parents tried to do. Movies that raise awareness for Neuro-Divergency and Disability are what we should be seeing. Movies of acceptance and support for a minority that has statistically and historically been rejected through every generation since before the Enlightenment. It still happens today, no matter how much we want to deny it and say we're "Woke". Instead, we have two conservative men directing a movie on abortion, a topic no one but women should lead, and sneaking around the organization they've vilified in their story, Planned Parenthood, and kept the title of the movie secret to avoid being sued. They didn't release the title of the movie until opening weekend, and were immediately, and rightfully so, hit with several lawsuits by Planned Parenthood. If this movie is tackling a moral issue, and they snuck around and hid truths from the public just so they could “reach more eyes and ears” then they lost their right to having a voice in the moral conversation. The ends do not justify the means, when the means is immoral in and of itself. If the conversation is about logic, about strategy, about game theory, about humanity, about charity, about almost anything but the literal plot of the movie, morality, then I don't think it would seem so unbelievable for this morality issue to be true. They went too hard and went too carelessly into the "battle against abortion".