Is UNPLANNED Just Pro-Life Propaganda?
![Image](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXLaOhosm9tLtUUS841HqqA21gz9IxcC2mS3zv1kMU89USmzFxgTRUi9PtSciH189f1MeK-Fe3rp7o2q54BFpD1cTkBKW_Ugk3O3QzBRRB-7g86UF7oRIhWf5veUyYtYDZu1s/s400/unplanned+poster+-+horizontal+-+no+tag.jpg)
Filmmaker and human rights activist Jason Jones recently wrote the following : When Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin , could she have guessed its impact? That slavery would die less than fifteen years later? . . . Unplanned can be the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of the abortion issue. And today’s pro-life movement can be the movement that drives its success. That’s a bold statement, especially when considering the artistically-checkered past of Unplanned ’s filmmakers. Conventional wisdom would lead even a pro-lifer such as myself to receive such a claim with at least a grain of skepticism. At the same time, comparing Uncle Tom’s Cabin with Unplanned isn’t entirely without merit. While far from identical, these two stories have some striking parallels. I want to specifically address the similarities between the criticisms they have received from their contemporaries. Consider Uncle Tom’s Cabin . No one can accuse author Harriet Beecher Stowe of subtl