{"id":127644,"date":"2016-10-04T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T18:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=127644"},"modified":"2016-10-04T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T18:06:12","slug":"pro-life-movie-voiceless-holds-world-premiere-in-front-of-u-s-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-movie-voiceless-holds-world-premiere-in-front-of-u-s-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life movie \u2018Voiceless\u2019 holds world premiere in front of U.S. Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The producers of a pro-life movie opening in theaters nationwide this weekend chose to give the film its debut outside the Supreme Court of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/voicelessmovie.com\/\">Voiceless<\/a>,\u201d a pro-life film opening Oct. 7, held its premiere Sunday evening outside the nation\u2019s highest court, which\u00a0legalized abortion nationwide in 1973. Organizers pointed out that this is the first time the court has allowed a movie to be shown on the sidewalk in front of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Jones, co-executive producer of \u201cVoiceless,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2016\/10\/03\/pro-life-movie-voiceless-holds-world-premiere-but-where-it-debuts-is-the-big-story\/\">told TheBlaze<\/a> in an interview that the film\u2019s aim is \u201cto tell the truth about the human person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been demoralized lately with the latest Supreme Court ruling,\u201d Jones said, citing the court\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2016\/06\/27\/clinton-praises-supreme-court-abortion-ruling-vows-to-fight-for-safe-legal-abortion\/\">decision<\/a>\u00a0in <em>Whole Woman\u2019s Health v. Hellerstedt<\/em> earlier this year, which struck down a Texas law requiring abortion facilities to have basic health and safety regulations.<\/p>\n<p>The movie centers around Jesse Dean, a recently discharged soldier who had a rough upbringing, but because of his wife, found God.\u00a0Dean\u00a0and wife move to Philadelphia so he can take a new job as an outreach leader at an old church, and as he begins\u00a0connecting to the community, he discovers there\u00a0is\u00a0an abortion facility\u00a0directly across the street.<\/p>\n<p>Dean approaches\u00a0the pastor and church members for\u00a0help, but to no avail.\u00a0Finally,\u00a0Dean\u00a0comes to the point\u00a0when\u00a0he begins to take action himself;\u00a0and the\u00a0more involved he becomes, the more resistance he gets from those inside his church, his family, and his community.\u00a0Dean must\u00a0make a choice: will he\u00a0back off, which is what everyone wants him to do, or will he face a major confrontation which will require him to put everything on the line?<\/p>\n<p>This film encourages people to stand up for what they know is right, and addresses the spirit of retreat as it pertains to engaging the culture.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, who likened showing the film\u00a0outside the court to \u201cart versus the law,\u201d said\u00a0he \u201ccouldn\u2019t think of a better place\u201d for its premiere.\u00a0He said the\u00a0event\u00a0at the U.S. Supreme Court was\u00a0one of the \u201cmost moving experiences\u201d of his life, because he lost\u00a0a daughter to abortion in 1989. Ever since, Jones has considered the Supreme Court the site of her death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow beautiful that we can show our film that wants to be a voice for the voiceless on these very steps,\u201d Jones\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>The co-executive producer\u00a0expressed optimism that the film will be successful in theaters even though \u201cwe\u2019re fighting for shelf space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are only so many screens in America, and we\u2019re fighting with big, giant movie companies,\u201d Jones said. \u201cAnd they are big, lumbering giants, and we\u2019re little David trying to get our screens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jones credited Rev. Patrick Mahoney of Church on the Hill in Washington, D.C., with the idea of\u00a0showing the film outside the Supreme Court.\u00a0Mahoney, who told TheBlaze that \u201cit\u2019s as if this film is a voice for those who don\u2019t have a voice,\u201d added\u00a0that the Court required them to use a smaller screen than they wanted, and barred them from using chairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just thought it was absolutely critical to come to the Court,\u201d he said. \u201cWe wanted to make history here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the film\u2019s showing on Sunday, Mahoney and Jones welcomed those in attendance to its \u201cworld premiere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Voiceless website to <a href=\"http:\/\/voicelessmovie.com\/theaters\">find out a theater near yo<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/voicelessmovie.com\/theaters\">u<\/a> on Friday, October 7. <a href=\"http:\/\/voicelessmovie.com\/\">Watch the trailer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The producers of a pro-life movie opening in theaters nationwide this weekend chose to give the film its debut outside the Supreme Court of the United States. \u201cVoiceless,\u201d a pro-life film opening Oct. 7, held its premiere Sunday evening outside the nation\u2019s highest court, which\u00a0legalized abortion nationwide in 1973. 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