Posted on 11/14/2009 4:04:46 AM PST by rhema
In late September, the abortionist at Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas, needed assistance, so he asked the center’s director Abby Johnson to hold the ultrasound probe during a dilation and evacuation abortion. Johnson watched as the 13-week-old unborn child attempted to avoid the probe. “I saw a full profile of the baby from head to foot,” she told me.
Once the abortion procedure began, Johnson saw the child “crumple” under the pressure of the vacuum and then in an instant the child was gone. The reality of seeing the baby moving struck her as she stood in shock and dropped the ultrasound probe, she recalled: “My heart was racing. I kept thinking about my daughter.”
In her second year as director of the Bryan center and her eighth with Planned Parenthood, Johnson wanted to quit at that moment, but she and her husband needed two incomes, so she kept working. She knew that visiting abortionists only work at the center every other Saturday, so she knew she had two weeks to find another job before any more procedures would take place.
But several days later, on Oct. 5, as Johnson sat crying behind a closed door in her Planned Parenthood office, she watched women coming in and out of the center and knew they were receiving the abortion-inducing medication offered on weekdays. She was afraid that none of her pro-abortion friends or co-workers would understand her distress. Looking for answers, Johnson glanced out her office window and saw two women from the 40 Days for Life campaign praying on the sidewalk just outside the center. She got up and walked down the street to the house where the Brazos Valley Coalition for Life had set up its new headquarters a few weeks earlier. She resigned her position with Planned Parenthood the next day.
“Planned Parenthood pretty much lives in fear of Coalition for Life,” Johnson said. Planned Parenthood asked for a restraining order in the 85th District Court that would prevent Johnson or Coalition for Life from releasing confidential information about its clients; Planned Parenthood workers claimed she copied down information shortly before resigning. “We don’t know what that [information] is because I don’t have any confidential documents,” Johnson said, adding that she never considered violating her ex-clients’ privacy. A judge threw out the request following a hearing on Tuesday.
Following Johnson’s resignation, the pro-abortion community rushed to discredit her. Salon.com’s Tracy Clark-Flory suggested that the Bryan center’s 2008 “Employee of the Year” had her abrupt change of heart because she recently had a poor performance review and finally had caved under pro-life harassment and from “death threats” she had in the past complained to the local media about. Others were skeptical of her claim that seeing an abortion prompted her change of heart. They wondered how a Planned Parenthood director could not know what an abortion did.
“Of course I knew what an abortion was,” Johnson said, adding that seeing it happen live struck her in a new way. She said she realized that the baby “wasn’t something that doesn’t have life.”
Johnson is still looking for a job. She has been accused of trying to become the next right-wing media darling but points out that Planned Parenthood took the story public first—she was hoping to just move on with her life.
For now, Johnson plans to spend a lot of time in prayer. “I feel so pure in heart, I don’t have this guilt,” she said in an interview with the local ABC affiliate. “I don’t have this burden on me anymore, and that’s how I know that this conversion was a spiritual conversion.”
I’m guessing TIME and those other MSM outlets won’t profile this woman the way they do whistle blowers and others they admire for changing their minds.
***I’m guessing TIME and those other MSM outlets won’t profile this woman the way they do whistle blowers and others they admire for changing their minds.***
There is too much interest in Levi Johnston, the intellectual giant!!!!
Oh, right. I heard a report about him on the radio and I was like, “WHO is this guy?” I couldn’t even place him at first, the little putz.
It's undoubtedly in their stylebooks that Sarah Palin-style "profiling" is obligatory for anyone who's not obeisant to "choice."
“...Johnson watched as the 13-week-old unborn child attempted to avoid the probe....”
When I read that, I had to stop for a few seconds to decide if I wanted to continue....
What did she think they were vacumming....lint??
Anyone wanting an abortion should have to watch such a movie. Anyone advocating one should too. Any vote in any legislature should be preceded by a screening attended by every member. Abortion would quickly become a faint memory, and adoption would become a normal thing for most families.
If God is not sovereign over the unborn, the most elemental form of human life, then he is not sovereign over this life with its much greater complexity and our prayers are useless, and, we certainly can’t expect a life hereafter which would be even more complex.
You’re absolutely correct; if we added this to sex ed a lot more kids would be a lot more careful, because the girls would probably be more reluctant to kill the baby. In the meantime, people should always bear in mind the perpetrators of the American Holocaust, and never forget it.
“Planned Parenthood.” What a farce of a name.
I call it “planned non-parenthood.”
Was God not sovereign over the multitude of ‘born’ babies in the mass slaughter in Judea during the attempt to exterminate the recently born King? Or could you say that His birth prompted the slaughter?
Do not, as a speck of dust, presume to judge God in his eternal plan. Murder is horrendous, but is not the ultimate tragedy - not by a long-shot.
If you are young, raised in a “prochoice” environment and haven’t given it much thought, abortion is a nebulous thing, until you are confronted with the cold, hard, bloody reality.
I personaly had a conversion similar to hers.
No doubt the radical fang-toothed feminazis will try to make this courageous woman’s life miserable.
Satan blinds you from the truth. Jesus was knocking on this girls heart and she was awaken to the truth.
Seeing what abortion does is shocking.
I walked into planned parenthood when I was 25, pregnant, and single. It didn’t take a video for me to know though. God was already telling me it was life in my stomach. 12 years later my son is beautiful young boy.
Planned Parenthood is one of Satans pawns!
There are some Freepers who think that abortion can be ended by electing the right politicians. They are putting the cart before the horse.
AMEN! The Lord’s children don’t have abortions. Christians need to be living the life before the people to make them want the same life. This is the answer.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
I thought this was maybe (hopefully) a new story. There has GOT to be others that will come forward now; changing their mind and hearts about working in such an evil workplace. Abortion must end, and if it doesn’t end quickly with the Courts, the workers must speak-out as this young lady has and tell the world the reality of this evil.....
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