Weber, who serves as Abby Johnson’s assistant, told me, “They asked her to increase the number of abortions at her facility by half, and so she said, ‘Don’t we tell the media that we want to reduce the number of abortions to make them safe, legal, and rare?’ And her supervisor laughed and said, ‘Well, Abbey, how do you think we make our money?’ And she really was blindsided by that.” Please Support The Stream: Equipping Christians to Think Clearly About the Political, Economic, and Moral Issues of Our Day. But she learned the hard way that the real bottom line of Planned Parenthood was its bottom line. We want to love them onto a path of healing, and we want to love them back into a relationship with Jesus Christ.”Īs an abortion worker, Abby Johnson had thought that what she was doing at Planned Parenthood was helping women. That we want to love these workers out of the clinics. It starts with the workers.” We see ourselves as being part of a pro-love movement. Our vision statement for And Then There Were None is “No abortion clinic workers, no abortion clinics, no abortions. We always say that nobody grows up wanting to work in the abortion industry. In effect, Abby and those 17 workers became the beginning of her work to help transition abortion clinic workers out of the field. One is Meagan Weber, who told me, “ wrote her book hoping that a worker would pick it up as a skeptic and see the truth, and see themselves through her words, and within three months of her book’s release in 2011, she had 17 abortion workers contact her for help.” But here is an update about ATTWN, since I recently interviewed two of her assistants. I have interviewed Abby before and have previously written about her story. Helping Abortion WorkersĪbby Johnson has also started an outreach, And Then There Were None (ATTWN), to help abortion workers leave the field. She wrote a book (with Cindy Lambert) called Unplanned, and PureFlix ( God’s Not Dead) has now turned that book into an excellent movie. I had been a part of a corrupt system, a corrupt organization, that really preyed upon women in their vulnerable states, and I knew that I needed to leave.” This was a baby that was fighting for his life.Īlthough Abby Johnson was a good salesman of abortions and thought that she was helping women through her work, seeing that baby fighting for his life caused the scales to fall from her eyes.Ībby says that after she saw that ultrasound, “I knew that I had been part of a lie. This was not a blob of tissue, a clump of cells, a non-living being. That year, for the first time, she saw an ultrasound of an abortion of a 13-week old unborn child in her own clinic. In 2008, Abby Johnson, the manager of the Bryan, Texas, (100 miles from Houston) Planned Parenthood, became that organization’s Employee of the Year.īy 2009, she quit for conscience’ sake.
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