Top Five Accidentally Pro-Life Movies

In 1984, Ronald Reagan declared January 22 as National Sanctity of Human Life Day. His proclamation remains a powerful testament to the intrinsic value of all life:

The values and freedoms we cherish as Americans rest on our fundamental commitment to the sanctity of human life. The first of the “unalienable rights” affirmed by our Declaration of Independence is the right to life itself, a right the Declaration states has been endowed by our Creator on all human beings – whether young or old, weak or strong, healthy or handicapped.

As Christians, we know the value of life is inherent no matter how much the far Left celebrates death. Even Hollywood – notorious for its woke, anti-life agenda – cannot help but acknowledge the sanctity of life. We’ve yet to see a “feel-good” film that ends in an abortion. Have you?

In honor of the 41st anniversary of the National Sanctity of Human Life Day, the ACLJ highlights below five times Hollywood was accidentally  pro-life:

5. A Quiet Place

The film follows the Abbott family, which curiously includes a daughter named “Regan,” who is trying to survive as blind aliens hunt humans based only on sound. Despite the vast dangers that a crying newborn poses, the mother chooses to give birth to the child. The story unfolds as the family then fights to protect the baby. Eventually, Regan’s quick thinking enables the family to defeat the aliens attacking them.

Who would think a post-apocalyptic horror film would serve a decidedly pro-life message?

4. Dune 2

In Denis Villeneuve’s 2024 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, Rebecca Ferguson plays a woman with special powers, including the ability to read minds. In the second film, we find out that Rebecca’s character is pregnant, and she learns how to communicate telepathically with her unborn child. The audience even hears the unborn child speaking telepathically with her mother.

That certainly sounds like a recognition of personhood.

3. Juno

The film follows Juno, a 16-year-old high school girl, who finds out she’s pregnant and must decide what to do about her unborn child. She considers an abortion but bumps into her classmate performing sidewalk counseling outside the abortion clinic and learns that her baby has fingernails. This knowledge sticks with Juno, and she decides not to go through with her abortion. As Juno races out of the clinic, her classmate calls out, “God appreciates your miracle!” Juno ends up giving her child up for adoption.

This transparently pro-life message straight out of Hollywood is stunning.

2. Horton Hears a Who

A 2008 adaption of Dr. Suess’ 1954 book, Horton Hears a Who!, tells the story of Horton the Elephant, who happens upon a speck that talks to him. He catches the tiny speck on top of a flower – and realizes that an entire town of microscopic creatures called “Whos” inhabit this tiny speck. Horton vows to protect the tiny town and gives us one of the most famous Dr. Seuss lines ever: “A person's a person no matter how small.”

Hmm . . . A tiny speck having life and inherent value. Does that sound like a metaphor for anything?

1. It’s a Wonderful Life

It’s a Wonderful Life tells the story of George Bailey, a severely depressed man contemplating suicide, who receives a visit from his guardian angel. The angel shows George what the world would be like if George had never been born. It turns out there’s a wide-spreading ripple of consequences for those whom George loves if he had never existed.

No movie better illustrates the inherent sanctity of life, and we believe that’s why the film today remains a classic – almost 80 years after it was released.

The ACLJ’s Fight for the Unborn

While Roe v. Wade is no longer the law of the land, the fight for life rages on. The abortion industry isn’t just killing innocent babies; it’s unconstitutionally criminalizing pro-life advocacy.

The Deep State DOJ has raided pro-lifers’ homes, dragging them out in front of their kids. The DOD has trained soldiers to label pro-life sidewalk counselors and organizations as “terror groups.” Now pro-abortion prosecutors across the country are trying to throw pro-life Americans in jail.

We’ve battled these unconstitutional laws and unlawful prosecutions all the way to the Supreme Court before, and we’re ready to do it again. But we need you to take urgent action with us today.

Sign our petition to stop the unconstitutional criminalization of -pro-life speech and save unborn babies’ lives.

We’ll leave you with one more excerpt from Ronald Reagan’s 1984 proclamation of the National Sanctity of Human Life Day:

Since 1973, however, more than 15 million unborn children have died in legalized abortions – a tragedy of stunning dimensions that stands in sad contrast to our belief that each life is sacred. These children, over tenfold the number of Americans lost in all our Nation’s wars, will never laugh, never sing, never experience the joy of human love; nor will they strive to heal the sick, or feed the poor, or make peace among nations. Abortion has denied them the first and most basic of human rights, and we are infinitely poorer for their loss.

We are poorer not simply for lives not led and for contributions not made, but also for the erosion of our sense of the worth and dignity of every individual. To diminish the value of one category of human life is to diminish us all. Slavery, which treated Blacks as something less than human, to be bought and sold if convenient, cheapened human life and mocked our dedication to the freedom and equality of all men and women. Can we say that abortion – which treats the unborn as something less than human, to be destroyed if convenient – will be less corrosive to the values we hold dear?