In several weeks hundreds of pro-life women will converge on the halls and offices of our state Legislature. Though representing diverse communities and counties across the state, we will be united with one urgent message to our legislators: Protect Life Now!
Make plans to be a part of the 7th Annual Pro-Life Women’s Day on the Hill as we welcome luncheon guest speaker, former Planned Parenthood facility director, Abby Johnson. This is one special event you won’t want to miss! Date is Wednesday, March 31. Contact or call 615-298-5433 to make your reservations.
Abby Johnson, Fighting For Life
Abby Johnson quit her job. That simple act has become a national news story because Johnson was the director of a Planned Parenthood facility in Texas who said she experienced a “change of heart” while participating in an abortion procedure.
“I had never seen an abortion happen on an ultrasound,” she said. “My job during the procedure was to hold the probe on the woman’s abdomen. I could see the whole profile of the baby 13 weeks head to foot. I could see the whole side profile. I could see the probe. I could see the baby try to move away from the probe.”
Johnson worked at the Planned Parenthood facility in Bryan, Texas, for nine years, first as a volunteer and then as the director. Her duties included running the family planning and abortion programs. The facility performed abortions two days a month. Although she had seen ultrasounds before, including during her own pregnancy, Johnson said she had never seen an ultrasound image during an abortion. She is unclear why she was asked to be in the procedure room on that day, because it was not a normal part of her duties. Still, Johnson said, the experience changed her forever. She knew it was time to leave after she watched the baby “crumple” while being vacuumed out of a patient’s uterus.
“I just thought, what am I doing?” she said. “And then I thought, never again. I looked out the window and saw a couple of people praying and I thought, that’s where I need to go.”
