Pro-Life Film '22 Weeks' Released During Annual March for Life in Washington D.C.

As the floods of Barack Obama supporters slip back into everyday life, the pro-life movement enters Washington DC today for the March for Life. Every year thousands of supporters protest the passing of Roe vs. Wade by participating in a march that ends at the Supreme Court building.

The day before the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade a film that has been highly anticipated in pro-life and religious circles was released to the public at the Union Station's Phoenix Theaters in Washington, DC.

22 weeks is based on the true story of a young woman who is locked in the bathroom of an abortion clinic after her aborted baby is born alive. The film debuted to a theater of prominent pro-lifers, including the woman on whose life the film was based and the Roe of the infamous case, Norma McCorvey.

The film is only 25 minutes long, but it graphic, disturbing and heartbreaking. 22weeks follows a young woman named Angela who decides to get an abortion during her second trimester. When faced with the choice of the suction method or an injection to the baby's heart, she chooses the injection, convinced by employees that the procedure will not cause the baby any pain. They assure her that she will simply have a stillborn birth the next day.

Later, Angela wakes up covered in blood and having contractions. When she goes to the clinic, she is left alone in a dirty room, unattended by the employees. When she gives birth in a bathroom, the baby boy is alive. Instead of helping her, the employees assure her that she is mistaken and leave her alone. Though Angela's friend calls an ambulance, the baby dies 10 minutes after the call.

The events in the film are based on an article by World Net Daily, which published the true testimonies of the real mother, Angele, in 2005. Angele, who attended the screening in DC, told the Christian Post that though the film is horrifying, what actually happened was even worse.

Angele believes that what caused the baby, a boy whom she named Rowan, to be born alive was that the doctor never actually injected the drug that stops that baby's heart. She heard the staff discussing it, but they never did it.

The film is not as black and white as many people may believe it to be. The young woman is not portrayed as an evil person for her choices. In the film, Angela is met by a group of pro-life advocates outside the clinic. When one of them tries to convince her to save her baby, Angela replies,

"God was never raped."

The film is about choices and the aftereffects while looking at both sides of the spectrum and asking, "What would you do?"

As Angela states in the trailer for the film, "It's easy to be given choices when you're not the one that has to walk them out."

Requests for screenings of the film can be made at the film's website

22 weeks Official Website

Lillian Kwon, Abortion Film '22 Weeks' Disturbs, Exposes, Christianpost.com

Ron Strom, Abortion Staff Ignores Baby Boy Born Alive?, World Net Daily

Ericka Andersen, Choose Life: "22 Weeks" and Counting, The Confabulum