Wow! Thank you for that detailed review.
PD James' book was not at all like that. It was very pro-life and religious (Christian). The hero, in fact, was a priest, and the society is a very Swedish socialist-style one in which people are all euthanized at a certain age (75, I think it may have been). In fact, the book begins with a chilling scene where an older woman is being "euthanized" with her age group and decides she doesn't want to go through with it.
There has been no normal childbirth for years, so women own dolls or small dogs and carry them around wrapped in blankets. And then a young woman shows up pregnant, and the society is completely thrown off by this and attempts to hunt down the woman and her protectors (the priest and some others).
I'm glad I didn't waste my time seeing this distortion of her book. I thought it was being suppressed in this country because it was pro-life, but maybe it just didn't do well in Europe (where it opened in October) and they're not going to distribute it heavily here.
This movie is pro-life as well. The goal is to save the life of a child.
Good review of the BOOK ('cuz it's not like the movie at all, from what I've read here).
The book is unashamedly Christian, and excellently written. (I read it this weekend.)
I read the book too! And the theme was what you don't value, life, even that of the elderly, you lose...
So sorry that the movie ain't anything like the book.