15 Years Since Abby Johnson’s Conversion

In 2003, Abby Johnson accepted a job working for Planned Parenthood of Bryan, TX, which is north of College Station, the home of Texas A&M. For years, she was shooting through the corporate ranks and reached the top as the clinic director of the facility after starting as an escort. She even was the recipient of the Margaret Sanger Award.

In her personal life, Abby had two abortions, a failed marriage, and parents who were concerned about her career choice. Eventually, she married Doug and had a daughter named Grace.

In September 2009, it all changed. Facing a shortage of staff, Abby was asked to help with an ultrasound-guided abortion.

“For the briefest moment,” she wrote in her memoir released in 2011, “the baby looked as if it were being wrung like a dishcloth, twirled and squeezed. And then it crumpled and began disappearing into the cannula before my eyes.”

“The last thing I saw was the tiny, perfectly formed backbone sucked into the tube, and then it was gone.”

In an email sent around the anniversary she left Planned Parenthood, she was vulnerable about being responsible for the 22,000 babies she helped murder during her time at the facility.

“That's 22,000 lives I participated in taking. Subconsciously, I felt that I had to save 22,000 lives to make up for it; logically, I know that's not even possible. Saving lives doesn't replace the ones that I ended.”

She credits her tribe of quitters that helped her strive to undo the wrong she did when apart of the abortion industry.

“That doesn't mean we'll stop saving as many lives as we can; I can assure you we will continue to fight for the voiceless. But we will make our advance with peace and joy, trusting in the forgiveness and mercy of Jesus. And BECAUSE of His mercy, it's crucial that we continue fighting not only to save lives but to save souls still trapped in the abortion industry.”

Since leaving Planned Parenthood, Abby Johnson wrote a memoir “Unplanned” describing her time with the abortion giant and many of her life decisions that got her to that point. She and her husband joined the Catholic Church. That memoir would be converted into a movie of the same name.

The very facility where she worked would shut its doors for good in 2013 and would become the headquarters of 40 Days for Life.

Quitters like Abby Johnson are needed now more than ever. Their voices matter as they can debunk the false narrative that abortion is safe, legal, and rare.

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