#121: “Unplanned” Heroine and Star—Abby Johnson and Ashley Bratcher
I was going to title this episode The Two Abbys, but that would have led to misunderstandings. It’s a two-hander featuring actress Ashley Bratcher and the woman she plays in the movie Unplanned, former Planned Parenthood Director Abby Johnson.
Unplanned came out after Gosnell and before Roe v Wade, the trio of strongly pro-life films of 2018 and 2019. Both the real life heroine Abby and the actress who brings her story to the screen thanks to co-writers Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman. An amazing story, now in cinematic garb.
In this episode you will learn
- How the book came about to begin with
- Why Hollywood’s MPAA gave it a Rated R rating and why this may help the movie’s box office
- The secret that the mother of actress Ashley Bratcher’s confessed to her after she got the role and had begin filming
- Why this is the kind of movie that changes the game regarding the reality of abortion
- Anecdotes galore from the set
Resources mentioned in this episode
- Movie Unplanned
- Book Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader’s Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line by Abby Johnson
- Movie Gosnell: America’s Biggest Serial Killer
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While listening to the podcast, I was reminded of a statement by, then, Cardinal Ratzinger in one of the extended interviews with Peter Seewald.
Topic of womanhood and military service came up, and Cardinal Ratzinger reflected on a woman’s role in giving and nurturing life and the incongruousness of such with woman seeking to emulate men in terms of taking up arms.
Can’t find the exact statement, my pardons.