A new pro-life film has been prevented from showing publicly in Canada.

Unplanned is a newly released film that tells the story of former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson and her decision to ultimately leave the organization in 2009.

The movie has been "de facto" prohibited, a term in law and government that recognizes practices done in reality that are not necessarily prescribed in law.

Lisa Wheeler, a producer behind Unplanned says that the film has been "effectively blocked" from Canadian distribution.

Those behind the film's creation say the censorship is due to a "politically progressive, left-leaning and pro-choice" movie industry in Canada, similar to the U.S. However, content and not a shortage of interest has been described as the issue in making the film widely viewable.

The film has already earned $18 million from its U.S. showings. It is based on Johnson's memoir, Unplanned: the dramatic true story of a Planned Parenthood director.

Johnson said that her decision to leave the organization came about because of two reasons, Grandin Media wrote. First, because of a need to "double our abortion quota," the former director was made aware of, which was in contradiction to the Planned Parenthood phrase that abortion should, in fact, be "safe, legal, and rare."

What convinced Johnson, however, was her own viewing of an ultrasound-guided abortion being performed on a 13-week-old fetus.

The fight Johnson witnessed in that viewing, she said, showed her “there was life in the womb, humanity in the womb.”

The former director says she is troubled by Canada's lack of protection for unborn children.

“It should concern all of us,” Johnson said.

Canada's two major movie distributors have both decided to not publicly show the film.