Abby Johnson, ex-abortionist

Johnson said she was told to bring in more women who wanted abortions, something the Episcopalian church goer recently became convicted about.

Paging Dr. Freud...

"Johnson said she was told to bring in more women who wanted abortions, something the Episcopalian church goer recently became convicted about."

There's the most sinister part of the entire operation. Rather than waiting for women to come in, a mission was created to go and drum up business, to convince women, to push them off the fence. That's a far cry from the stated goals and standard operating procedure of PP.

This story also illustrates that science and technology are the pro-life movement's greatest weapons in fighting this monstrous evil. In crisis pregnancy centers, when we show women an ultrasound of her baby, the decision is almost always to keep it. very woman I have spoken with who decided to keep her baby said that she didn't realize it was a baby at that early stage of development. They are told by the abortion industry that it isn't a human yet.

Now we hear from a former PP director the truth behind the lies: Prevention doesn't keep PP in business. Lying to pregnant women and slaughtering babies does. (So too does your friendly Democrat Party with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars each year)

Another crack in the foundation.

God be praised. Those prayers outside of abortion clinics are not just for the babies, but for the Johnson's who staff them. How wonderful that she has come in from the darkness. We pray that the rest of her colleagues follow soon.

Doesn't anyone find this woman's blithe and lighthearted repentance, broadcast on the evening news (look everyone, I've repented, and it's newsworthy!)to be disturbing? And the fact the the pro life group that she is working for is using this woman's change of heart as a source of promoting the cause (time on the evening news!) --does this not strike anyone as vanity and pride? Too much self congratulation, too little humility, no matter where you stand on the issue of abortion.

Brett R., on the other hand, reject that science when it comes to evolution and the history of the earth.

I'm a big fan of evolution, but anti-evolution nuts really don't bother me because they are not trying to stop open discussion and shut down others; in fact, most are merely asking for a right to speak their views as an alternate argument. I'm ok with this; the truth will always win, and the debate will help educate.

However, as a science-type myself, I am very much bothered by people trying to love to shut down others who disagree with them; that is, people who are basically afraid to test their "faith" in a public forum. Examples here are issues of racial/genetic research (the attacks on Nobel Laureate James Watson), gender litmus tests (again, attacks on Nobel Laureate Larry Summers), and then the whole global warming ideological-litmus-test, where many scientists are now afraid to speak for fear of retribution and losing funding. Free, open debate is the key, and this is very much at risk under the current political era.

Nancy,

"Doesn't anyone find this woman's blithe and lighthearted repentance, broadcast on the evening news (look everyone, I've repented, and it's newsworthy!)to be disturbing? And the fact the the pro life group that she is working for is using this woman's change of heart as a source of promoting the cause (time on the evening news!) --does this not strike anyone as vanity and pride? Too much self congratulation, too little humility, no matter where you stand on the issue of abortion."

What makes you suggest that this woman's repentance is "blithe and lighthearted". Perhaps she comes through as being lighthearted because that heart is no longer burdened by the vicious, evil work that she had done for eight long years. Have you ever had the experience of abandoning sin, of being forgiven ? If you have, then you must know that lightness that comes with the experience. Read A Christmas Carol.

I think of Jesus admonishing Simon the Pharisee for the same sort of catty crap you've pulled here. (Luke 7: 36-50) When a sinful woman of the town washed His feet with her tears, and dried them with her hair, then anointed them with oil, Simon took exception. Jesus told Simon, "Therefore, I tell you, her sins which were many have been forgiven; hence she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, loves little." Then he told her to go in Peace.

Why haven't you done as much Nancy?

As for this conversion experience being used to promote the cause. Yes, that too is scriptural. Remember the Samaritan woman at the well who meets Jesus and is forgiven and converted? She runs into town telling everyone to "come and see the man who told me everything I ever did".

Funny thing about repentance and forgiveness, people want to share that joy with the world. They go and try to get others to repent and share in that liberation from the deadening weight of sin.

Does this strike me as vanity and pride? No. But your post strikes me as someone who begrudges this woman her repentance, who is appalled that she would reach out to others killing babies, or contemplating as much (On the evening news!). Children are being slaughtered, all to keep the executioners employed. How wonderful that the pro-lifers have the truth from a converted PP abortion center director.

Truth be told, my prayers are with Johnson, that when the elation subsides she does not begin to despair of the assistance that she gave in ending so many lives. The best way that Johnson can redeem herself is to work as assiduously to end the practice of abortion as she did to promote it.

In this, she has an excellent role model and patron saint. A certain Pharisee by the name of Saul of Tarsus oversaw the martyrdom of Stephen. He made it his mission to wipe this new sect of what would become known as Christians from the face of the earth. Along the way he had a theophany. From that moment on he dedicated the rest of his life to spreading the Gospel all over the earth. We remember him as St. Paul the Apostle.

Putting up with public rebukes such as yours will lessen her time in Purgatory. The rebukes only make you look incredibly small, Nancy. Rejoice with this woman. Was that not the admonition of the Father in the parable of the Prodigal Son?

This was no accident.
The national 40 Days for Life campaign, which started right there in little 'ol Bryan/College Station a few years ago, has helped bring this about by a spiritual campaign for 40 days twice a year of prayer and fasting to end abortion in this country. Participants go and pray in front of abortion offices.

Since it began, amazing things have been happening all around the country. America has recently been shown to be majority pro-life in public opinion surveys. Law and Order just the other week aired a segment that was pointedly pro-life, which never would have happened before. Some PP clinics have closed, others saw employees quit in disgust as they began to follow their consciences about what they were doing. Babies were saved as 40DFL prayer warriors witnessed women who left the abortuary saying "when I saw you praying out there, I couldn't go through with it", and so on.

One day during a 40DFL last spring in Everett Washington, a Planned Parenthood abortuary had to close due to a terrible smell that developed in the office. Nobody ever knew what it was. But some think it was the stench of death being revealed to those present. Fascinating stuff. And exhilarating.

What was just as disturbing as this ex-manager being told to drum up more abortions to make a buck, is that Planned Parenthood went to court to shut her up. They felt that they would be hurt if more people knew what went on and was said in there. That speaks volumes for itself.

When I learned about this 40DFL campaign, I was thrilled. Because it's not a political campaign; no, it's PP's worst nightmare: it's a spiritual battle. One which PP cannot win.

What I find interesting is the "non-profit advocacy organization" turning into a business model. I am pro-choice, and a firm supporter of Roe v. Wade, a sound conservative exercise in well established constitutional law. However, the point was that the STATE should not intervene in a profoundly personal and very intimate decision by the individual woman concerned. No Supreme Court justice then or since has found any positive good in the procedure of abortion. We would be better off if every OB/GYN were familiar with how to do an abortion IF necessary, and in the RARE instances where it is necessary (to save the mother's life), or advisable (women, as well as men, differ on exactly when or whether that is the case), the woman's OWN treating physician would handle it. Setting up clinics with the primary PURPOSE of doing abortions is obscene. Planned Parenthood needs to go back to being a volunteer-run organization helping women get what they need, instead of a quasi-business and quasi-government grant feeder doing whatever brings in the bucks.

A note on the "broadcast news" angle. Every event reported on the evening news is not contrived for the purpose of getting on the news. If it was, then by definition there would be no evening news. The news, when it is doing it's job, is supposed to report on what happens. This is a newsworthy event. Repentance is a very personal matter -- I wouldn't try to second-guess anyone else's change of heart.

Siarlys Jenkins - The only doctors who do abortions are those willing to endure the insults, boycotting, and assaults, including death threats, and death. Have you not noticed?

Shouldn't things of the spirit be personal?

Nope.

I am so d*** sick of this stupid, individualistic culture. So liberal and individualistic when it pleases us, so communitarian when we've got the authority of the community behind our pet belief.

"Am I not a man and a brother?" That was a freaking spiritual belief.

For crying out loud. "Things of the spirit" have to do with what is most meaningful and central about your life, and what is most meaningful and central about your life is how you love and treat other people, and that includes pregnant women and unborn babies, too.

Things of the spirit as "too personal" to share. That's like saying Disney World is too much fun to let children in.

The thing that gets me about this stupid culture is that we're so d***** dishonest. We all pretend to be "Liberal". No one is a true Liberal except a few whacked-out libertarians on the fringes of both parties. All the rest of us are communitarians. We have an understanding of what virtue is. We believe in such a thing as a good life, and we are perfectly willing to enforce our understanding of the good life over the objections of those in our culture who do not believe as we do.

But then, when others try to do the same to us, we scream and shout and claim that people are trespassing on our "rights". But of course they're trespassing on our rights. Because they believe we're doing society harm. That's the whole point. You harm society, your rights get trespassed on.

The idea that anyone is an island, that there exist 'private' acts that are not 'public', that affect no one else, and therefore do not fall within the interest of the rest of society: so much freaking bulls***.

Deo gratias, indeed.

I hope this woman stays an Episcopalian, we need more pro-lifers in the Episcopal church.

How can we contact Abby Johnson for a Pro-life interview