Reason to give thanks down in Bryan-College Station, Texas. From a local news report:
Planned Parenthood has been a part of Abby Johnson's life for the past eight years; that is until last month, when Abby resigned. Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure."I just thought I can't do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that's it," said Jonhson.
She handed in her resignation October 6. Johnson worked as the Bryan Planned Parenthood Director for two years.
According to Johnson, the non-profit was struggling under the weight of a tough economy, and changing it's business model from one that pushed prevention, to one that focused on abortion.
"It seemed like maybe that's not what a lot of people were believing any more because that's not where the money was. The money wasn't in family planning, the money wasn't in prevention, the money was in abortion and so I had a problem with that," said Johnson.
Johnson said she was told to bring in more women who wanted abortions, something the Episcopalian church goer recently became convicted about.
"I feel so pure in heart (since leaving). I don't have this guilt, I don't have this burden on me anymore that's how I know this conversion was a spiritual conversion."
Deo gratias! This is fantastic news.
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Could this woman have contrived this just to get on the news, for whatever reason? Could she just be wanting her 15 minutes? Of course she could (see, e.g., the balloon boy and his parents).
But that is not the point. If we (professing Christians, that is) take this whole "repentance" thing as seriously as we pretend to, then it is not our duty (nor should it be our desire) to judge whether a person's repentance is sincere and real. God alone will judge that; this woman, like each of us, will be judged on what is in her heart.
Deo gratias, indeed.
I hope this woman stays an Episcopalian, we need more pro-lifers in the Episcopal church.
RobL, I have noticed, and that is indeed part of the problem. Although I don't agree that ALL abortions need to be done in hospitals, Henrietta22 is right that if the procedure were available in the context of a private doctor-patient relationship, then insults, boycotting, assaults, death threats, and actual murder, would be much more difficult for anyone to target. It is also true that doctors morally opposed to performing abortions should tell their patients up front, and should not be required to perform one.
ConnieConnie (I'm also in Wisconsin) perhaps the government should NOT be involved at all. Then Rod is free to advocate to any woman who will listen why she morally should not terminate her pregnancy, and she is free to make a final decision for herself, giving whatever weight she wishes to what Rod advises and whatever moral authority he cites.
How can we contact Abby Johnson for a Pro-life interview
A special thanks to Abby Johnson, the ex-director of the Bryan Texas Planned Parenthood office on 29th Street:
Abby Johnson now encourages thinking and loving individuals to place a special value on others who are (also humans made in the image of God) and in the same stage of development that "They were"!
The thoughts that dance in the mind of humans, is conceived in their heart and hinges on the pivotal question that ushers in the undeserved "Death penalty" for the unborn; or the joyous excitement, anticipating the soon coming birth of a child.
The question that answers the complex motive for a person's actions after conception is "Is the pregnancy and baby wanted or rejected by one or both parents (or families) of the child"?!!!
And if most women-with-child was loved by the child's father,
she would smile and happily say "No abortion" why bother.
Ask God and the person you mated with to forgive you,
forgive yourself and live the abundant life.
Sincerely,
Arthur Trafford
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