Lost among the news going into Tuesday’s elections was the story of a former Planned Parenthood director in Bryan, Texas who resigned after seeing the ultrasound of an abortion. Fox News had the story on their website Monday.
Abby Johnson, 29, used to escort women from their cars to the clinic in the eight years she volunteered and worked for Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas. But she says she knew it was time to leave after she watched a fetus “crumple” as it was vacuumed out of a patient’s uterus in September.
I imagine what she saw was something like the infamous “Silent Scream” video and when they say ‘Warning. Graphic content.” they mean it. Part 3 on that page is the relevant part.
Our friend and RedState member Mailloux has written several powerful diaries on abortion and Planned parenthood, including the “Fetal Hand Grasp Child”, “The Arrogance of Man and the Triumph of Love”. “Somewhere Between Rage, an Abyss of Sorrow, and Redemption . . .”, and “Live Action, Planned Parenthood, and John 8:44″. The deceit of Planned Parenthood he talks about in “The Arrogance of Man and the Triumph of Love” is front and center with Abby Johnson’s story. While the public face they put on is one of concern for all aspects of women’s health, including pregnancy tests, breast and cervical cancer screening, and STD testing Abby found out what the true focus of the organization was as director of the Texas clinic.
Money. Abortion money.
Johnson said she became disillusioned with her job after her bosses pressured her for months to increase profits by performing more and more abortions, which cost patients between $505 and $695.
“Every meeting that we had was, ‘We don’t have enough money, we don’t have enough money — we’ve got to keep these abortions coming,’” Johnson told FoxNews.com. “It’s a very lucrative business and that’s why they want to increase numbers.”
Planned Parenthood’s national media director Diane Quest says 90% of their focus is on prevention explaining that a “core component the organization’s mission is to help women plan healthy pregnancies and prevent unintended pregnancies.” But at the Texas clinic where Johnson worked her bosses saw things differently. She was told to change her priorities and focus on abortions.
“For them there’s not a lot of money in education,” she said. “There’s as not as much money in family planning as there is abortion.”
Without a doctor in residence, she said, her clinic offered abortions only two days a month, but the doctor could perform 30 to 40 procedures on each day he was there. Johnson estimated that each abortion could net the branch about $350, adding up to more than $10,000 a month.
“The majority of the money was going to the facility,” she said.
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“Ideally my goal as the facility’s director is that your abortion numbers don’t increase,” because “you’re providing so much family planning and so much education that there is not a demand for abortion services.
“But that was not their goal,” she said.
Somehow I don’t think the Bryan, Texas clinic is alone in that goal. One has to wonder just how many Planned Parenthood clinics think likewise. They have since filed a restraining order against Johnson and Coalition for Life, an anti-abortion group that held frequent prayer vigils outside the clinic. After resigning Johnson joined that group. A hearing is set for November 10 to determine if an injunction will be issued against them. A spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood said
We regret being forced to turn to the courts to protect the safety and confidentiality of our clients and staff, however, in this instance it is absolutely necessary
Gateway Pundit has also covered this story and has a video from local TV.
One has to wonder how many other Abby Johnson’s are out there and what kind of coercion PP puts on people who resign for whatever reason not to talk to the press. Johnson said she never intended to release any sensitive information about her patients, but for uncertain reasons the restraining order was issued anyway. But the accusations by Johnson of encouraging as many abortions as possible certainly seems like one reason to me. That would fly in the face of the visage PP presents to the public, a public that is increasingly anti-abortion, as this Examiner article notes referencing a Gallup poll earlier this year.
I imagine that after seeing an abortion on ultrasound Abby Johnson has come to realize that one of the old arguments pro-abortion activists consistently put out to promote their cause has lost some validity. The one of “It’s my body. I should have the right to an abortion if I want one”
Someone else’s body is involved. Someone whose rights are to be denied as PP seeks more profits. 1 Timothy 6:10 tells us “For the love of money is the root of all evil”. To me there is nothing more evil than the murder of an unborn child.
Abby Johnson has decided she does not want to be a part of that anymore.
[Video Update]
On Saturday, November 7th Abby Johnson appeared on Huckabee. Hear her story in her own words. The audio on this clip is a little distorted, so you may want to turn the volume down a little.
There’s just nothing I can add to that. Unviable tissue mass? Yeah, right.
"90% of their focus is on prevention"
bk Thursday, November 5th at 7:16AM EST (link)True - preventing births, not preventing pregnancies.
It’s kind of like Rahm Emanuel’s “don’t let a crisis go to waste”. PP’s version of it is “don’t let a crisis pregnancy go to term”.
prevent the truth from coming out
LJ "Beaglescout" Miller Thursday, November 5th at 1:13PM EST (link)That’s the prevention they are spending 90% of their focus on.
“Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.”
PP's perfect cycle of ca$h
Hammer2008 Thursday, November 5th at 10:28PM EST (link)Consider how Planned Parenthood “pushes” sex education, experimentation, et. al. under the guise of prevention counseling only to set up a steady stream of girls and young women seeking abortions later on. Quite a death gambit cycle of cash they have going for themselves. A little money spent here and there pushing non-abstinence only to recoup hundreds later for each abortion.
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Too much noise! “Noise! You’ll have noise enough before long. The Regulars are coming out.” ~ Paul Revere (April 18th, 1775’s eve…)
Planned Parenthood disguises well their opposition
TNJim Friday, November 6th at 12:18AM EST (link)to abstinence programs by complaining that they do not teach the use of condoms and other means of birth control to teens using the threat of STD’s in the case of condoms to shore up their argument. Now that Abby Johnson’s story has broken the mask is finally off, exposing their real intent.
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It's kinda of hard to work for Planned Parenthood in Bryan
Richard Mullins Friday, November 6th at 12:22AM EST (link)the conservative city that it is. I’m sure it was easier to do a 180 than to stick with PP.
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Good point, Richard.
TNJim Friday, November 6th at 12:57AM EST (link)That nut would have been harder to crack I imagine in a more liberal city, like say San Francisco. I also think the backlash from PP, or at least their supporters against an Abby Johnson would be more shrill than a restraining order.
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In my diary the other day,
Steph C Thursday, November 5th at 7:32AM EST (link)I called it murder for hire. That’s essentially what it is. They’re paid to murder an innocent being who’s only offense is to exist.
Plus there’s something else they do with the aborted fetuses.
“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
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Steph, sorry I missed your diary
TNJim Friday, November 6th at 12:22AM EST (link)But like Abby’s story it got overlooked in all the election coverage. The use of fetal cells in certain cosmetics was unknown to me until I read your diary today. Because of that, I urge those of you who have read and recommended my diary to give Steph’s a look.
This ogre is large inded.
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It's okay, Jim.
Steph C Friday, November 6th at 7:34AM EST (link)I don’t write many diaries these days. When I do, it’s usually to get stuff off my chest. Yours is better.
I know makeup and all that stuff is supposed to help women look beautiful but since I don’t wear makeup now, I never ever will. You’ll just have to look, or not, at my ugly old visage just the way it is.
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This is a powerful story, TNJim, that needs to be told.
penguin2 Thursday, November 5th at 7:59AM EST (link)Those stories are extremely difficult for me to read. I can hardly let my mind accept the images. In fact, I really can’t.
If we could open up the doors to those clinics, then the cries of our murdered infants would be heard.
God alone knows how this will ever stop….
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
As mailloux pointed out below
TNJim Friday, November 6th at 12:27AM EST (link)it would be great if Abby’s story inspired others to come out and corroborate her story. I really doubt the Bryan, TX clinic is the only one encouraging their staff to promote abortion above all else in the name of profit.
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This story did get lost in the excitement of the Tuesday elections
E Pluribus Unum Thursday, November 5th at 11:19AM EST (link)Good one, Jim. Keep it up.
Carthago delenda est
EPU, if I'm right this is the second story on the same subject
Richard Mullins Thursday, November 5th at 11:27AM EST (link)I think dpayton had a diary on this earlier this month.
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Thank you, sir.
TNJim Friday, November 6th at 12:34AM EST (link)Your encouragement is invaluable. In my 8 months here I’ve written only 3 diaries, mostly because other ideas I’ve had for one are covered far better by more experienced authors. This story just pushed the right button, and I felt I had to air out my suspicions about PP.
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I heard a lady on the radio one time
itrytobenice Thursday, November 5th at 12:14PM EST (link)She had been an administrator in a Planned Parenthood clinic and had resigned. She said that they had done research and discovered that when they were able to penetrate a school system with a sex ed program, they were able to increase abortions in the local clinic by 25%. (If I remember the percentage right. I remember that it was a large increase.)
She also said that they had two different programs prepared, and determined which one to use depending on whether or not any parents showed up to monitor their presentation.
She said that they started in Kindergarten. Their premise in that grade was to plant seeds of contempt toward their parents naivete’ in their heads. For example, they would ask the children what their parents called their private parts. When the child would say the nickname, like peepee, privates, rooster or whatever, everyone would giggle at the answers, then seriously explain the actual technical names and explain that parents didn’t always give children factual information. Blah, blah, blah.
They made a determination to begin at the earliest ages in undermining parental influence. Why? Parents are smart enough to oppose abortions for their girls.
PP uses an abortion mill to enrich its officers at the expense of the people is supposedly serves. Period.
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Very well said, itrytobenice
TNJim Friday, November 6th at 12:38AM EST (link)Thank you for that. The more PP is exposed as a promoter of abortion above all else, the better. Undermining parental influence is just another staw that will hopefully break that camel’s back.
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Stand by for the smear campaign.
Uma Richie Thursday, November 5th at 12:44PM EST (link)She worked for them for 8 years providing plenty of material to weave a negative story about a disgruntled employee. In the TV interview on one of the links, it is so obvious that her conversion has taken a huge weight off her heart. She seems genuinely relieved. Like Joe the Plumber and Carrie Prejean, I’m sure she’ll come out on top.
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“We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.” -Lech Walesa
Planned Parenthood offers "health services" to get young people to get used to walking through their doors.
Read Chesterton in New Improved Jersey Thursday, November 5th at 3:33PM EST (link)I recently embarked on a one man mission to purge the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s fundraising tentacles from our parish and school via discrete letters to and discussions with parish/school leadership. It’s well known that SGKF is a major supporter and contributor to Planned Parenthood via its grant programs.
As I prepared to approach pastor and principal, I contacted one of the dedicated parish women who stand vigil at the area’s largest abortion clinic, ready to pray with, advise, and redirect the women seeking abortions to the Crisis Pregnancy center up the street. Here was her feedback regarding “breast health” and other “services” offered at Planned Parenthood clinics:
I included the above block quote smack in the middle of my letter to the pastor. The final verdict after he spoke with the school principal and teachers at the school? No more business with SGKF The school will donate its annual “Breast Cancer Awareness Month” contributions to a local hospital in the name of the teacher who had succumbed to the disease years back.
I would advise others whose churches or organizations are caught up in the SGKF Pink Ribbon vanity campaigns to discretely (starting an internal war with liberal parishioners would be counterproductive) meet with leadership and set them straight regarding the Planned Parenthood ties - but always do your homework first and visit your local SGKF website for a list of its grantees. Chances are better than average that a Planned Parenthood “Women’s Center” is among their beneficiaries.
Sometimes, to get people to do the right thing, all that is necessary is they become informed.
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Good suggestion & advice. Thank you. nt
redneck_hippie Thursday, November 5th at 4:04PM EST (link)“We must not lose our faculty to dare, especially in dark days.” - Churchill in March, 1942.
Remember NY-23.
Thank you for that information, Read.
TNJim Friday, November 6th at 12:44AM EST (link)I’ll look into that connection. It may be possible SGKF might have fallen for PP’s outer mask, as Abby Johnson did at first when she became the director of the Texas clinic. After all, they do offer breast cancer screenings, something the SGKF is definitely interested in. Perhaps they need to become aware of Johnson’s story about what goes on in the inner offices.
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The National Director of SGKF sits on the Board of her state Planned Parenthood organization
Read Chesterton in New Improved Jersey Friday, November 6th at 12:14PM EST (link)As someone near and dear to RS once pointed out after researching the data… more money is spent on breast cancer research annually than all mens and childrens cancers combined. It has become an industry unto itself bent on shaming people - specifically men - into supporting “the cause.” They have manipulated a tragic disease into a politically correct feminist rallying point.
In practical terms, the above means that the scientist researching breast cancer may fly across country, on expenses, to a seminar with a suitcase full of expensive Pink Ribbon magnets to hand out to participants. Meanwhile the guy researching juvenile spinal cancer would have to drive his clunker across country on his own dime if the resources were even available to hold a medical seminar on his research,
“Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister. We can be proud of her beauty, since we have the same father; but she has no authority over us; we have to admire, but not to imitate.” - G. K. Chesterton, “Orthodoxy,” Chapter VIII.
TNJim, Abby's story is well worth celebrating!
mailloux Thursday, November 5th at 4:32PM EST (link)And, may, through the grace of God, there be a tsunami of Abbys within that most evil of industries.
Thanks you for bringing this inspiring story to RedState . . . praying for those contemplating an abortion and for those who work in the ‘clinics’ is time well spent. If Saul could become Paul, then, with God, anything is possible. I believe Abby is proof of that. The efforts of Coalition for Life were not in vain.
Finally, I’m much honored to be mentioned and linked in your diary. Thank you.
Take Care, mailloux
mailloux, sometime back
TNJim Friday, November 6th at 12:53AM EST (link)in one of you diaries I mentioned my take on abortion and how I would write about it someday. That someday came when I stumbled across Abby’s story Monday. I think it’s great she went from director of a PP clinic to a member of an organization protesting that clinic.
God truly does work in mysterious ways, doesn’t He?
Thank you for commenting and recommending, and thanks to all who have commented, recommended, or just simply read this diary. The more that comes out about what truly motivates PP the better.
Margaret Sanger, what hath thou wrought?
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