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From Pro-Choice to Pro-Life

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From Pro-Choice to Pro-Life

Published: Mon, 9 Nov 2009

Description: Former director for Planned Parenthood on why she is now against abortion

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" Well she helped numerous women get abortions. But she's now a strong pro life advocate who helps lead protests. At the very clinic she once worked for please welcome former director for planned parenthood. Abby Johnson. We -- planned parenthood. To issue a statement we actually have someone would they like to be on in and to share their side of the story we got this statement I'm gonna share. They said planned parenthood respects everyone's police on this most personal medical issues planned parenthood remains fully committed to ensuring that every woman facing an unintended pregnancy. Knows all of her options. -- parent has focuses on prevention. Nationwide more than 90% of the health care plan parenthood affiliates provide aids preventive in nature. -- my honest assessment of that statement is they do prevents some things they prevent birth. Not illnesses there's no illness involved in a pregnancy illness. Means you're sick you're not sick when you're having a baby now. When you were planned parenthood did you find that the focus was on health care and prevention of illness."

" Now it's it's prevention. I mean a lot of it is prevention of pregnancy and and that is why -- got. Into why you first got an F 51 got involved getting an unintended pregnant suspect that's actually -- I got involved in it but I seeing found. That one of their goals was. To make money. And the way they make money is to increase the number of abortions they -- You were working. Actually helping and assisting in an abortion and you saw on an ultrasound. The abortion process tell me what did you see. When the ultrasound was running in the abortion is taking place. Well I was I was called into the -- to assist during the procedure. And it was actually an ultrasound guided abortion procedure which is not that common. I -- planned parenthood health sinners because it's a longer type of abortion procedure in. Planned parenthood centers are trying to do as many procedures. That day as they can and said they're not gonna take a lot of time for each procedure. But for whatever reason in this position and did decide to do an ultrasound guided procedure on this particular woman. And so I was called in to help and my job was to. Hold ultrasound probe on this woman's abdomen so that the physician can actually see the uterus on the ultrasound screen. And when I looked at the screen that I -- A baby on the screen and she was about thirteen weeks pregnant at the time. And I -- awful side profile Phyllis are solved face to feet. On the ultrasound machine. And I saw the probe going into the woman's uterus. And at that moment I saw the baby. Moving and trying to get away from the probe moving away from Beaumont yes he and I. It's fighting for life. And I thought it's life I mean it's --"

" Until that moment and be headed adhered to you that you were able to use words like fetus and tissue. It's very different than when you saw the form of a child recognizable. That it was a life. No. Wind -- did you say anything at that moment the doctor."

" Known in my mine is raising her heart was beating so fast and I just thinking Cashman -- stock. And then almost said any it was just over to sit in the blink of an eye and I just saw the I decided baby just literally just crumble in it was over. And I had. I just I. Dropped ultrasound probe and then I realized oh my gosh now knows some prozac has scrambled and I and I. But don't Sempra back employees. And so many things are going to remind and I think even my daughter historian I was. I was thinking about the ultrasound I had of her in her thinking just how perfect ultrasound was when she was twelve weeks. In the women I was thinking and doing what. What -- in my doing here in an act packages. I had one hand on this woman's on the -- Bellingham was thinking whose life in here and now there's not. And you."

" Literally were holding. Your hand on to have her. -- on top of her belly at that point and and realized that what was underneath that hand once a moment ago was life. It's gone from a cash. When when you were faced with that did but what did the woman see any of this did she ever did she had access to see the screen at all -- who -- people never see really what's happening them. I can't help believe if they saw that did they might be running out of those clinics."

" Yeah -- if clinic workers. Saw what was happening on that screen. They would be running out that's clinics this is Wyatt. The abortion industry does not want their workers to say. They don't want it their workers to see what's actually happening during an abortion. That's my plan parent doesn't do also -- a large abortion industries don't do ultrasound guided abortion procedures. Don't want people to see what's really happening. In the woman's woman."

" You know I think about what you've gone through you must have walked away that day saying this is not. But I wanna be in new spending the rest of my life doing as a career. What was the next steps you took. You were the executive director of that planned parenthood clinic and yet they really didn't know what was going on back in those back rooms moved in and that standpoint."

" From. I went home that day and I had made the decision that David that was that and I went home and talk to my husband about it. And I mean has as a teacher and we have a daughter and so we're dependent on to -- times and so. We just decided that I would go back to work and I would just be really looking for another job and and I knew that I had two weeks until we are going to be doing surgical abortions again and so I had two weeks to find another job. And so I went the first week with pretty uneventful. And the -- next he came. And that Monday came. And I was sitting in my office announced crying on her door closed. And I was just thinking. We can ago what America do I don't wanna be here but the people of the clinics say what you found said this is Adam and leaving. Well nobody really knew what was happening I couldn't talk to anybody at the clinic because. They didn't know what was going on in my heart they didn't understand what was happening. And now now they do you know planned parenthood display at a restraining order out on me now that they know working with the pro I wish planned parenthood would put -- restraining order on themselves. And stop the horrible things."

" Eddie Johnson thank you. You have a lot of courage to share your remarkable story. And I thank you so much and I hope it's a great reminder. That we can't necessarily just listened to words we need to understand the actions behind thank you god -- what are -- going to the."

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