Quotes by Abby Johnson - Page 2

Abortion, more than not, leaves women with an aftermath of grief, guilt, and emotional overload. In a lot of cases, this can last a lifetime.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Aftermath
Cases
Emotional
Grief
Guilt
Lifetime
Overload
Last
Leaves
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An abortion is expensive. Its cost includes pay for the doctor, supporting medical staff, their health benefits packages, and malpractice insurance.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Medical
Abortion
Expensive
Health Benefits
Malpractice
Packages
Staff
Health Medical Doctor
Insurance
Supporting
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I have seen women literally run into the abortion facility because someone was yelling Bible verses at them or pushing a graphic image in their faces.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Faces
Graphic
Pushing
Verses
Yelling
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I know I'm a smart person, and yet I was duped by the abortion industry for eight years. Why did it take so long for me to see the truth? I don't know.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Duped
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I wish I had a dollar for every pro-choicer who told me that abortion has to be accessible for poor women... as if being poor makes you an unfit mother.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Women Mother Me
Dollar
Unfit
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If you want to truly stand up for women's reproductive rights, then stand against birth control. Because nothing says anti-woman more than birth control.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Birth
Birth Control
Reproductive
Stand Up
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Planned Parenthood is a tough place to work - the hours are long, the work is emotionally draining, the paperwork is endless, and the morale can run low.
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Draining
Endless
Morale
Paperwork
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Emotionally
Planned
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There is such little tolerance for women on the national stage who don't agree with the hosts of 'The View' or celebrities who march with Planned Parenthood.
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March
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Tolerance
Celebrities
Hosts
Planned
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Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.
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Ever After
Every Step
Disappointments
Happily
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Most prochoicers have a line in the sand concerning abortion. There are very few abortion supporters who believe in abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Nine Months
Pregnancy
Sand
Concerning
Supporters
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While I am a single-issue voter, I certainly don't live a single-issue existence. Many causes affect my family and me, and I intend to be a voice for those as well.
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Causes
Family I Am Me
Affect
Intend
Voter
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I left Planned Parenthood in 2009 and have since started an organization called And There Were None, which helps abortion workers leave their jobs and find new ones.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Workers
New Ones
Planned
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I got married to Doug in 2005. I knew that we wanted to delay having children for a while, and I had tried pretty much every hormonal birth control method under the sun.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Birth
Birth Control
Delay
Having Children
Method
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As a person who worked in the abortion industry for eight years, I can say unequivocally that the most manipulation I have ever witnessed was inside the walls of the abortion clinic.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Clinic
Eight
Manipulation
Unequivocally
Walls
Witnessed
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Being reminded of your past doesn't mean that you have to live with constant grief. It simply means that you have been given the opportunity to transform your past into something positive.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Positive
Constant
Grief
Simply
Reminded
Transform
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While I am a pro-life woman, I am also a woman who is concerned about rights for the disabled, maternity leave, the death penalty, health care, domestic violence, breastfeeding rights, etc.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Death Penalty
Disabled
Etc
Maternity
Domestic
Penalty
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I have many memories of my time with Planned Parenthood. I spent eight years of my life there. Some memories are good, some are not. But they are contained in my mind. It's easy to forget them.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Life Time Good
Contained
Planned
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Abortion does not just hurt women. Abortion hurts a family, and it has a domino effect of hurting those related and close to those families through the grief and reality of losing a child to abortion.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Family
Women
Grief
Hurt
Losing
Reality
Related
Child
Does
Those
Through
Close
Domino
Effect
Families
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I get asked this question a lot. Am I really pro-life? Am I against abortion in all circumstances? Yes. Do I believe there are any exceptions for abortion? No. Do you want to make abortion illegal? Yes.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Circumstances
Illegal
Pro Life
Against
Asked
Exceptions
Question
Yes
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When I left Planned Parenthood, I was extremely nervous. I was immediately thrown into the media spotlight, and I had no idea what it was going to be like to be a public figure in the pro-life movement.
Abby Johnson / Activist
No Idea
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Spotlight
Thrown
Planned
Public Figure
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Planned Parenthood has consistently claimed to 'care' for women 'no matter what' and champion 'women's rights' - yet they frantically silence any woman who thinks women deserve better than Planned Parenthood.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Champion
Consistently
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Silence
Claimed
Planned
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We are all afflicted with our own spiritual blindness. That's what sin does to us, and we all sin. We would do better to look into our own hearts and deal with our own sin before we condemn the sins of others.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Blindness
Sin
Afflicted
Condemn
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When former abortion workers speak out in public about what they did in their clinics, what they saw happening, and the disrespect consistently shown women, hearts and mind change, and abortion facilities close.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Consistently
Disrespect
Former
Speak
Workers
Did
Clinics
Close
Public
Facilities
Saw
Happening
Hearts
Shown
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If a woman goes to Planned Parenthood for birth control and discovers in the course of her visit that she has high blood pressure, Planned Parenthood can't help her. She has to be referred to a FQHC for treatment.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Birth
Birth Control
Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Treatment
Discovers
Planned
Referred
Visit
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If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of me? Once you are pregnant, there is no if. That child, though tiny and in an early stage of development, already exists!
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Children
Development
Growing
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Planned Parenthood's mission, on paper, is to give women quality and affordable health care and to protect women's rights. In reality, their mission is to increase their abortion numbers and, in turn, increase their revenue.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Affordable
Affordable Health Care
Increase
Numbers
Parenthood
Revenue
Mission
Planned
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Should Planned Parenthood be defunded, women will still have access to great quality healthcare. Speaking as a former Planned Parenthood director, I know that quality health care is best provided outside of Planned Parenthood.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Former
Healthcare
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Quality Health Care
Planned
Provided
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Why do Planned Parenthood and their allies only 'trust women' and only want to hear women's stories when they agree with Planned Parenthood? Why do they work to silence any women who disagree with them? Don't our stories matter?
Abby Johnson / Activist
Allies
Disagree
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Silence
Planned
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How can we condemn those who are truly blinded by evil? We can't. We shouldn't. How do we bring about conversion of those living in blindness? By love. By truth in charity. By offering forgiveness. By offering mercy. With prayer.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Forgiveness
Truth
Blinded
Blindness
Charity
Conversion
Evil
Mercy
Offering
Prayer
Living
Those
Bring
Condemn
Truly
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Equal rights for women. I agree with that concept. But we will never be free, we will never obtain equality, until we stop letting ourselves become pawns of the abortion industry. Our freedom depends on our rejection of abortion.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Equality
Abortion
Agree
Depends
Equal
Equal Rights
Industry
Rejection
Rights
Concept
Letting
Obtain
Pawn
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It's my theory that one of the big reasons clinics have shut down - and will continue to shut down - is that former abortion workers have spoken out about their experiences in public and worked to testify against their former employers.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Employers
Former
Clinics
Spoken
Testify
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We can be mothers and have careers. We can finish our education with children in tow. Is it a challenge? Yep. But women are made for challenges. We are strong enough to handle the challenges presented to us. It's what we were made to do.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Careers
Handle
Tow
Mothers
Presented
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I wrote in my book, 'unPlanned,' about a church that kicked me out when they found out that I worked for Planned Parenthood. I often get questioned about that, whether I still think they made the wrong decision. My answer is a resounding 'Yes.'
Abby Johnson / Activist
Book
Church
Decision
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Wrong Decision
Planned
Questioned
Resounding
Worked
Yes
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When I say, 'I stand for equal rights,' I mean equal rights for all persons... from the moment of conception until natural death. I mean that I believe in the equal human dignity of all persons, no matter the 'contribution' they make to society.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Death
Society
Conception
Contribution
Dignity
Equal
Equal Rights
Human Dignity
Matter
Mean
Natural
Persons
Rights
Stand
Moment
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Why do I leave the March for Life every year happier than when I came? Hope and gratefulness are the reasons. Gratefulness for the life we have and the life we've given and hope for the future, to live in a world where abortion becomes unthinkable.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Given
March
Unthinkable
Life Future Hope
Becomes
Leave
Happier
Reasons
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If Disney wants ideas for a princess, make her an independent woman, one who is not afraid to face the daily struggles of life, and refuses to wear expensive dresses. Because we all know life is messy, and those dresses are too pretty to get dirty.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Dirty
Dresses
Expensive
Ideas
Independent
Messy
Afraid
Face
Pretty
Those
Woman
Too
Daily
Disney
Wear
Her
Independent Woman
Refuses
Struggles
Wants
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Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs) are constantly in the crosshairs of the abortion industry. They are angry that PRCs take away clients who would otherwise use them for abortion. They lose lots of money to PRCs every year - and are vastly outnumbered.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Clients
Pregnancy
Centers
Outnumbered
Resource
Vastly
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After working in a prominent position at a Planned Parenthood facility in Central Texas for over eight years, I can say that women deserve better than Planned Parenthood and that their funding should be reallocated to Federally Qualified Health Centers.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Facility
Funding
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Prominent
Qualified
Centers
Health Women Better
Planned
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As someone who used to work in an abortion clinic and who now has helped over 425 people get out of the abortion industry, I have hundreds of first-hand accounts of what abortion clinics do to cut corners on cleanliness and health. Truly disgusting tales.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Accounts
Cleanliness
Clinic
Corners
Disgusting
Tales
Work Health People
First-Hand
Hundreds
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When I worked for Planned Parenthood, we had a specific protocol that we had to follow when picking up our abortion doctor. Looking back, I realize how crazy this was, but at the time, I felt like I was a part of some super secret high-level security task force.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Looking Back
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Protocol
Picking
Planned
Task
Task Force
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It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.
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Choices
Confused
Pro Life
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The abortion industry and their workers are under unique pressure and constantly in the spotlight because abortion is so controversial, and people on both sides are considerably passionate. This isn't a typical nine-to-five job. It's on a whole other level of intensity.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Both Sides
Intensity
Sides
Spotlight
Typical
Workers
Considerably
Nine-To-Five
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The abortion facility in Texas where I worked for eight years closed after enough workers like me left. They closed because I finally spoke out against the terrible things I saw, the deceit I participated in, and the unsanitary practices common to many abortion facilities.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Deceit
Enough Where Me
Closed
Facilities
Practices
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I've heard pro-lifers yell at abortion clinic workers that they should 'Repent!' Repent of what? They don't see what they are doing as something that needs to be repented of. Why? Because they are blinded. Do you think yelling at them will remove that blindness? Not likely.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Blinded
Blindness
Clinic
Remove
Yelling
Will Doing See
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When I say, 'I want women to have access to authentic female healthcare,' I mean that I want women to have access to healthcare that supports their natural femininity. I mean that I want women to have access to healthcare that doesn't include the use of contraception and abortion.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Contraception
Femininity
Healthcare
Authentic
Include
Supports
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An important part of my story is that I didn't walk out of Planned Parenthood immediately after witnessing the ultrasound-guided abortion. It is made to appear that way in the film, 'Unplanned,' because they are trying to fit 10 years of my life into an hour-and-a-half-long movie.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Life Walk Important
Life Walk My Life
Appear
Important Part
Planned
Witnessing
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My first March for Life was in 2010, three months after I left my job in the abortion industry as clinic director at a Planned Parenthood in Texas. It was intensely emotional, shocking in many ways, especially the outright love I saw in the faces of people who I once considered enemies.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Clinic
Faces
March
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Shocking
Life Love People
Enemies
Intensely
Outright
Planned
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I had developed a relationship with one of the anti-abortion sidewalk counselors who stood in front of my facility. We talked regularly through the fence and she had asked me to go have coffee with her one day. I was impressed with her persistence and, honestly, I thought I would really like her if I got to know her.
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Coffee
Facility
Fence
Impressed
Persistence
Sidewalk
Counselors
Regularly
Stood
Talked
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'And Then There Were None' is a network of former abortion clinic workers who are stepping forward to tell our stories about what really happens behind the closed doors of Planned Parenthood and abortion facilities across America. We are stepping forward because our voices deserve to be heard, and America deserves to know the truth.
Abby Johnson / Activist
Abortion
Clinic
Closed Doors
Doors
Former
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Closed
Facilities
Planned
Stepping
Voices
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