I want to thank the Harkins 101 theater for having the courage to show the powerful pro-life movie, “Unplanned: The Abby Johnson Story.” Advertisers, radio and TV stations, as well as the majority of movie theaters have refused to promote or show this significant true story.

Johnson went from being honored as director of a Planned Parenthood clinic to becoming a pro-life advocate after participating in providing an abortion and witnessing the ultrasound image of the baby fighting to avoid being aborted. Her story shares similarities with that of the late Norma McCorvey (the “Jane Roe” in the Roe v. Wade decision) who also became pro-life after her religious conversion. She called her involvement in Roe “the biggest mistake of my life.”

Hollywood and the mainstream media prefer to treat the American public as though we (to borrow Jack Nicholson’s line from “A Few Good Men”) “can’t handle the truth.” But when exposed to truth, whether as reflected in the images modern technology provides or the moral truth about the sanctity of life, I am confident that many would make a different decision about terminating the life of their preborn child.

I believe pregnancy centers, as a means of providing full disclosure about the abortion procedure, ought to be required to show potential clients the ultrasound of a baby fighting for life while being killed. In other fields where clients wrestle with significant decisions, full disclosure is required; why not in this area of life or death decision making? Doing so would likely have saved millions of the 60 million-plus who’ve been aborted.

I strongly encourage anyone pro-abortion, on the fence about the matter, or contemplating abortion to see this film. If doing so saves one life, it’s worth it.