From Planned Parenthood to Pro-Life: Amazing Conversion Story of Abby Johnson Just Catching On Nationally

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The amazing conversion story of former Planned Parenthood clinic director Abby Johnson in Texas is almost entirely untouched in the national press. They discussed it on The View on ABC Tuesday, which may not count as "news." The Washington Times offered it Tuesday. It's breaking today on ABCNews.com. They also discussed it on Wednesday's edition of Hannity on FNC:

HANNITY: Fascinating clip. You know, I've always been pro-life my entire life. And, especially with new technology and the advancement of new medical technology, it's fascinating, you know, when you see that heartbeat at 18 days and you see, you know, the development of a fetus, it's pretty remarkable about what we've learned about when life begins.

Planned Parenthood, a director quits after watching an abortion ultrasound. And let's show you this video.

ABBY JOHNSON, FORMER PLANNED PARENTHOOD DIRECTOR: I feel so pure in heart. I don't have this guilt. I don't have this burden on me anymore. And that's how I know that this conversion was a spiritual conversion.

HANNITY: You know, I've always said, Ralph, that this -- when people -- technology will change people's hearts. This is an example. She joined a pro-life group after that.

RALPH REED: No question about it. I mean, you remember back in the '80s. Dr. Bernard Nathan's son, who was one of the fathers of the pro-abortion movement, had a very similar conversion experience.

I was born six weeks premature, and it's very personal for me, and was able to watch my children on this technology. And that's why we support women's right to know laws. Because we don't think women should be forced or manipulated in any way. They ought to have all the information, and this is an example of a hard change.

I mean, in the end, Sean, we're going to have political disputes. We're going to have the legislative battles. And that's part of a free society.

HANNITY: Sure.

REED: But what's ultimately going to win this is the same thing that won civil rights and the same thing that won the suffragists movement. It's going to be a change in the culture, a change in people's hearts, and here's one heart that's changed.

In Texas, the story broke on the local CBS affiliate, so CBS should already have footage it can use. The College Station Eagle's report also was distributed by the AP -- but only on the State and Regional Wire, not on the National wire. That story buried the conversion and played up Planned Parenthood's mission of protecting patient privacy. It took ten paragraphs to get to the conversion story:

Hearing set in Planned Parenthood director case

Planned Parenthood has filed a temporary injunction to prevent a former director of its Bryan clinic from teaming up with a local anti-abortion group to release records from her eight years of work at the family planning clinic.

The employee, Abby Johnson, said Monday that she never planned to release the records.

Either way, the case, which has gained national attention on conservative online media sources and anti-abortion blogs, has caused a skirmish between the clinic and the Brazos Valley Coalition for Life, which recently moved its headquarters several hundred feet away from the clinic.

A hearing on the issue is scheduled for Nov. 10 in the 85th District Court.

The injunction was filed Friday and signed by District Judge J.D. Langley. It prevents Johnson and the coalition from releasing anything that Johnson, who was executive director for about two years, may have retained while working at Planned Parenthood -- at least until the hearing.

Coalition Director Shawn Carney said Monday that there was not a campaign to reveal private information. He said Planned Parenthood's actions were unnecessary and an overreaction.

Lawyers for Planned Parenthood wrote in court documents filed Friday that Johnson was seen copying confidential personnel files and possibly other documents in the days before she abruptly resigned on Oct. 6. The clinic's lawyers expressed worry in the filings that Johnson might release clients' medical records, information about doctors who work at the clinic and the clinic's security measures.

Johnson said in a telephone interview with The Eagle that she didn't turn over any documents to the Coalition for Life.

"I didn't provide any because I don't have any," she said.

The 29-year-old said she resigned from the clinic because she felt guilty after witnessing an abortion in September. She also said she was concerned about pressure from the organization's regional manager that the Bryan clinic focus on more abortions because of financial reasons.

"Definitely the most lucrative part of their business was abortions," she said. "One of the things that kept coming up was how family planning services were really dragging down the budget, and family planning services include education about contraceptives. It was a drain on the budget, but abortion services were really running up the budget and that was keeping the center afloat."

An employee at Planned Parenthood's Bryan clinic declined to comment and referred questions to the organization's regional office in Houston. A spokeswoman from the regional office released a statement but declined to answer any questions.

—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.

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Quotas Too

In fact Abby is going further to say that the clinics had a quota for abortions:

Former Director Reveals Planned Parenthood Clinics Had to Meet Monthly Abortion Quota: http://www.weaselzippers.net

""There are definitely client goals," former clinic director Abby Johnson said. "We'd have a goal every month for abortion clients and for family planning clients.""

Way to go Abby!!!

Way to go Abby!!!

 

"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will
be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for
pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner."

— Malcolm Muggeridge

How anyone can defend

How anyone can defend abortion beyond medical neccessity is very sick.  I appreciate her coming to grips with what she has done but she should have never been in that frame of mind in the first place.

Bias much?

By the way, this is an excellent story for confronting apologists for the Liberal media and its <cough, snicker, gag> unbiased coverage.

- Relying upon the State Run Media for your information is like relying upon an embezzler for your portfolio management.

- I didn't leave the Republican Party; the Republican Party left me.

Let this be a lesson!

Let this be a lesson for pro-aborts: Switch to the right side of this war now before you go down in history as a supporter of the worst atrocity ever.

 

Its easy to be pro-abortion when you're not the one being aborted.

www.prolifekelowna.com 

I wonder how many libs know

I wonder how many libs know "Roe" switched sides a long time ago?   Lib media not too keen on covering that when it could be brought up in a news story.  M-B

FYI on this story: 

Pay problem parents not to breed - mayor

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That is what PP was set up for.

Not many do, is my guess. 

Not many do, is my guess.  I didn't know about her switch until well after I became pro-life.

Just like in my undergrad sociology class - Margaret Sanger was a hero.  All that eugenics talk and overt racism wasn't mentioned.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

Evil PP

I discovered the evils of margarite sanger and pp about 20 years ago. It's amazing how the sub-slime media and the Pro-Death libs can keep the evil masked for so long.

kilrod

If an unborn child cannot trust you, why should I,?? 

Wow

I see the support to force a woman to carry a fetus to term is still in full swing. How many of you are moaning and complaining about Obamacare? You know, bitching and complaining about assaults on YOUR rights.

Well, that is exactly what you are doing to a woman who does not want to carry a fetus to full term. Now, keep in mind, there is a point of no return. If a woman cannot figure out that she is preggos by the end of the 2nd trimester, then she has other issues more staggering than being preggo.

Notwithstanding… how many of you are men? How many of you will ever face the prospect of having to carry a fetus to term? None, if you are male. Until that day. Shut your yaps you have no idea what physically it dos to a body and mind when you are forced to carry a fetus to term. Not a one. You can guess. You can put two and tow together. But until medical science gets to the point where it can implant a fetus into a male body and have that male carry it to full term… shut your yaps.

Next on the list… all you males popping off about abortion. There is an easy way to prevent it. Keep your peckers in your pants. Oh, what is that? Not gonna happen? Yeah, thought so. Easier to force a woman to do something she does not want to do than to control your own selves.

It matters not a whit who jumped what stand on abortion to which side. The fact of the matter is I see a lot of people popping off about their rights and yet… like demosucks and liberals whining about what a woman does with her body.

Without specific medical and expensive (keep that in mind you opponents to Obamacare) a fetus cannot live normally outside of the host body until “x” date of gestation. Medical fact. Sorry if you don’t like facts. Just the way the ball bounces.

How many rapes would occur if women decided to close their legs because men refused to step up to the plate and take care of that kid once born by themselves. Don’t lie either. I am male. I know what men think. I know what men do. I know just exactly how responsible men are. I see it every day. Sure, there are a few that would do it but that number does not justify compared to the number that would walk away.

So… just stand up, tell the world what you are really saying. Women… are second class citizens who deserve to be controlled through outdated religious dogma simply because you are entrenched in ideals that would and do keep people second class. I see it with this, other religions, gay people, and a slew of other issues. Yet… I see here a lot of people whine, bitch, moan, complain about how THEIR rights are being attacked and THEIR freedoms are being assaulted. Hypocrisy… is ugly and a sad teller of the state of BOTH parties and humans in general.

This country is going to hell in a hand basket and the reason is the duality of application of the idea of freedom and freedom of choice. The idea that it is okay to restrict some people because the others want to ride out their dogmatic attitudes on morality, which by the way, they seem to have NO problems breaking those rules. After all… they are not perfect… jus forgiven. Yeah, swallow that hogwash with sugar and it still tastes like crap.

Don’t want an abortion or don’t believe in it? Don’t have one. Don’t support it. Keep your paws off of another woman’s choice to terminate a fetus that cannot survive outside of the host body without extremely expensive medical aid. Either that… or pony up YOUR money to support that fetus in incubation, which would not happen. Just like liberals will not give an opt out on Obamacare to those that do not want it and see it as a blatant attack on Freedom. Hypocrites, both sides.

There were any number of

There were any number of actual points of the story that you could have stuck to, and you choose instead to go off on the right of a woman who is "preggers" (the word is "pregnant") to "terminate a fetus" (i.e. kill her unborn baby).

Why don't you address one of the actual points? I'll give them back to you in case you missed them:

 1. Planned Parenthood, alleged bastion of "choice" (which you purport to support) was pushing for the sale of abortions as a financial strategy, regardless of the women's real wishes or needs. How does this square with the "choice" issue? Shoudn't there be an investigation into this? Ought not proCHOICE people to be outraged that troubled women were looked at through a lens of dollar signs?

2. Seeing on an ultrasound what an abortion does to a fetus caused this woman to do a complete turn around and oppose the pratice. Should abortion clinic employees be fully educated about the service they're selling before they participate? Should patients be fully informed?

3. Planned Parenthood is seeking to block this woman's communications with others about her experiences there. To what extent is this reasonable? Does the fact that they're paid with our tax dollars entitle us to information about what goes on in there? Are her free speech rights being trampled? You could go in any number of valid directions there.

See? Three topics just off the top of my head, without needing to even touch on whether or not there's some inherent right to have a human being you brought into existence shredded at your behest.

I guess you've been "forced" to carry a fetus to term?

So you know all about how it feels? I was a pregnant teenager who definately didn't want a baby, and although I was scared and under extreme pressure from the baby's father to abort, I was unable to get an abortion. Even though it was an very emotionally difficult time and the father was abusive and angry, feeling the "fetus" move was amazing and the love that grew in me for it was intense. I had many struggles to go through but I don't regret for one instant not aborting my daughter. Not for an instant. It's one of the things that turned out right in my life and that I'm extremely happy about. THAT is how it feels.