YMMV / Unplanned

• Anvilicious: The movie has an extremely heavy-handed anti-abortion message, including graphic, disturbing abortion scenes intended to show how awful and traumatic the procedure is (according to the movie), comparing abortion to slavery and the Holocaust, and presenting people who support abortion as either ignorantly misguided or as callous, self-serving jerks who only care about money. Women who seek abortions are depicted as either naive, fragile people who are manipulated into it, or as selfish for "killing babies for convenience".^note the movie ignores or glosses over many other legitimate arguments for abortion, including medical abortions (non-viable pregnancies, assistance with late-term miscarriage, pregnancies that pose severe risks to the person carrying it), pregnancies resulting from rape and/or abusive relationships, and people who aren't in a position to go through a pregnancy and adequately care for a child for various reasons (financial issues, lack of support system, health conditions etc). While it does try to insert nuance by portraying one group of anti-abortion activists more negatively due to them being overly-aggressive and openly slut-shaming, it's undermined due to getting a lot of things about abortion and Planned Parenthood factually wrong to present them in the worst light. Many people criticised the film for its one-sided, inaccurate and emotionally-manipulative presentation of a complex and sensitive subject (with even some viewers who do have issues with abortion disliking how the movie handles it).
• Awesome Moments: The "Hurricane Scene". Around 40 scheduled abortions were going to have to be canceled due to the danger going to the clinic during the storm. Since there is a cut-off when they can do their abortion Abby would rather they get their abortions done earlier than in two weeks. Abby calls every patient to reschedule them earlier, hires two more surgeons and impressively gets all of them their procedure done safely. This gets Abby a promotion.
• Broken Aesop: The movie takes the stance that anti-abortion protesters who focus on calling women who want abortions "baby killers" and showing them gruesome abortion imagery is hurting rather than helping the movement. But the movie itself relies on highly graphic and disturbing depictions of abortion to push its message (to the point it received an R-rating in some countries for violent content) and while the Coalition for Life (presented as the good anti-abortion protesters) don't explicitly call out women seeking abortions and abortion doctors as murderers, they still do things like comparing abortion to slavery and the Holocaust, which is just as extreme and inflammatory.
• Critical Dissonance: The film has been overwhelmingly negatively received by critics due to its clear and obvious stance on a hot-button topic, but has been well-received with its target audience, for obvious reasons.
• Don't Shoot the Message: The film's commentary on the US healthcare system being driven by profits at the expense of people's well-being is actually worth discussing given it's a serious problem; trouble is, this movie's method of depicting this issue falls flat because it uses Planned Parenthood, which in reality is a non-profit organisation.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: The film unequivocally condemns abortion, however Abby's two abortions end up being good for her since she would have been stuck with loser partners if she had their child. The hurricane scene where Abby re-schedules dozens of abortions to happen before the storm is also portrayed with bouncy pop music in the background.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: The film ends with the Planned Parenthood clinic where Abby worked being shut down and bulldozed, which the protagonists treat as a joyous outcome. However, this means that the clinic staff lost their jobs (potentially putting them and their families in financial hardship) and that people won't be able to access the services the clinic provided besides abortion, such as STI testing and medication, cancer screening, pregnancy-related healthcare (for wanted pregnancies, at that) and birth control (the latter of which would greatly reduce the number of abortions). It's also highly doubtful it's going to stop local women from seeking abortions; it just made it much more difficult and potentially dangerous for them get the procedure done (they may have to travel a long way and spend a lot of money to get an abortion elsewhere, or resort to risky, medically-unsound methods from desperation). It's mentioned that Abby now works with an organisation that helps former abortion clinic workers find other employment, but the people seeking abortions have apparently been abandoned.
• Evil Is Cool: Cheryl is a cutthroat businesswoman who promotes abortions as a way for their clinic to make money, and engages in medical malpractice such as refusing to call an ambulance for an injured patient. However due to her domineering personality and Robia LaMorte's looks several viewers find this attractive.
• Narm:
  • The Coalition for Life crying over buckets of fetal tissue is supposed to be sad but it comes across as rather goofy and almost like a parody of what pro-lifers would do.
  • This absolutely golden line uttered by Planned Parenthood supervisor Cheryl when Abby dare questioned her proposition to increase abortions.
  Cheryl: [after explaining how fast food corporations break even] Abortion is our FRIES and SODA!
  • Similarly, there's a scene where Cheryl chews Abby out for being a traitor and swears vengeance upon her, declaring that Planned Parenthood will be coming for her soon, with help from their wealthy donors and benefactors. Cheryl is such a cartoonishly over-the-top strawman villain that it's almost impossible to take her seriously when she's trying to be menacing.
• Nightmare Fuel: Whether or not it's an accurate depiction of a pill-induced abortion, it's still scary to see a woman bleeding profusely out of her vagina in the bathroom, thinking she's going to die. Worse, according to Abby's narration, it lasted for 12 hours.
• Signature Scene:
  • The suction abortion procedure that Abby witnessed which, as the tagline says, "changed everything" for Abby. See Artistic License – Biology on the main page.
  • The effects of the chemically induced abortion Abby uses when she discovers she's pregnant for the second time, for more infamous reasons.
• So Bad, It's Good: For those who are pro-choice, this is a fun film mostly due to the cheesy over the top pro-choice villain that is Cheryl.
• Tear Jerker: The high school girl who mentions that she is pressured by her parents to get an abortion and has serious doubts if she's doing the right thing. She even asks if Abby could stay by her side during the procedure, which unfortunately goes wrong when Abby checks back on her in the recovery room. Naturally, Abby is panicking because she promised earlier that nothing will go wrong. The only consolation seems to be that the girl doesn't remember the ordeal due to being heavily sedated, though she is incredibly pale and tired. What differs this from the more try hard attempts at drama is the girl's utter resignation at her situation and the father's Dramatic Irony in thanking Abby for taking good care of his daughter. This is also the moment that Abby begins to doubt if what she had done was right.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Rhonda, the woman who goes to get an abortion while her mother cries outside the clinic is meant to be seen as a selfish jerk who doesn't have an "excuse" to have an abortion. However, anyone who is pro-choice will likely view her as well within her rights to terminate her pregnancy for any reason she may have, and she doesn't deserve her mother's guilt-tripping or the protests from the Coalition for Life.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • The Coalition for Life are portrayed as peaceful protestors rightfully condemning the act of abortion, while also distancing themselves from anti-abortionists who behave rudely. However they also have no issues filming people walking into the clinic, thereby putting their identities at risk from the "Bad" protesters. Furthermore, their rhetoric comparing abortion to the holocaust and slavery is what causes this aggression from people to begin with, in addition to their methods still coming across as narrow-minded at best and manipulative guilt-tripping at worst.
  • Abby's husband Doug comes across as a condescending prick through the whole film with how he judges his wife for working for a clinic that performs abortion, despite knowing she worked at an abortion clinic before they married and deciding to go through with it. Even from a pro-life perspective he comes across as a douche, since his girlfriend being someone he'd consider to be an accomplice to systematic mass murderer wasn't a dealbreaker for him.
  • Abby herself is this. She had two abortions and her life would have been worse if she had not had them, but she then became an activist to take that right away from other people.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Specifically, for a general family audience. An open letter by Johnson addressed to parents said that the film contained no nudity, sex, or profanity. Never mind the very intense bathroom scene featuring Abby who almost believed that she was gonna bleed to death on the bathroom floor, which brings to mind a second open letter addressed to religious communities that they should ignore the 'R' rating anyway as they had done for The Passion of the Christ.

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