"October Baby," With Jasmine Guy and John Schneider More slickly packaged than most faith-based fare, "October Baby" gussies up its anti-abortion message with gauzy cinematography and more emo music than an entire season of "Grey's Anatomy." But not even a dewy heroine and a youth-friendly vibe can disguise the essential ugliness at its core: like the bloodied placards brandished by demonstrators outside women's health clinics, the film communicates in the language of guilt and fear. The guilt is introduced early as 19-year-old Hannah (Rachel Hendrix) is persuaded that her asthma, epilepsy and suicidal tendencies can be traced to her premature birth after a botched abortion. Brattily brushing off her adoptive parents (John Schneider and Jennifer Price), Hannah sets out to find her birth mother armed with a vintage van, a handful of sympathetic sidekicks and the maturity level of a 12-year-old. But this G-rated road trip is only an appetizer: the film's pièce de résistance arrives in the haunted form of Jasmine Guy, playing the clinic nurse who assisted at Hannah's birth. Her pivotal speech, a gory portrait of fetal mutilation and maternal distress, conjures a vision of medical hackery that is clearly intended to terrify young women - and fits right in with proposed state laws that increasingly turn the screws on a woman's dominion over her reproductive system. Directed by the brothers Andrew and Jon Erwin, and with an endorsement from the biblical-values promotion machine Concerned Women for America, "October Baby" traffics primarily in soapy melodrama and false compassion. "Hate the crime, not the criminal," a friendly police officer advises Hannah. Except that abortion is not a crime, no matter how fervently some people continue to wish that it were. "October Baby" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Family values and Addams family dialogue.