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| '''Abby Johnson''' (born July |
'''Abby Johnson''' (born July 11, 1980)<ref name="birthday" /> is an American ] activist who previously worked at ] as a clinic director, but resigned in October 2009. She states that she resigned after watching an ] on ]. The veracity of her account and the details and motivation for her conversion have been challenged by investigative reporters, as medical records contradict some of her claims.{{r|"texas-monthly"|"TexasObserver_1"}}<ref name="abc-1">{{cite news | work = ABC News | title = Former Planned Parenthood employee Abby Johnson's anti-abortion comments under scrutiny after graphic RNC speech | url = https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/planned-parenthood-employee-abby-johnsons-anti-abortion-comments/story?id=72609833 | date = August 25, 2020 | first1=Benjamin|last1=Siegel|first2=Ivan|last2=Pereira}}</ref> | ||
| Her memoir, ''Unplanned'', was made into ]. | |||
| ⚫ | ==Early life== | ||
| ⚫ | Johnson grew up in ], and graduated from ]. She obtained her ] in psychology from ] and ] in counseling from ].<ref name=TyndaleBio>{{cite web|url=http://tyndale.com/10_Authors/author_bio.php?authorID=1324 |title=Author Biography: Abby Johnson |publisher=]}}</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | ==Early life and work== | ||
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| ⚫ | Johnson grew up in ], and graduated from ]. She obtained her ] in psychology from ] and ] in counseling from ].<ref name=TyndaleBio>{{cite web|url=http://tyndale.com/10_Authors/author_bio.php?authorID=1324 |title=Author Biography: Abby Johnson |publisher=]}}</ref> Although raised in a conservative family opposed to abortion, Johnson began volunteering for Planned Parenthood in 2001 after seeing their booth at a volunteer fair at her college.<ref name="NCR">{{cite news|last=Drake |first=Tim |url=http://www.ncregister.com/blog/what-abby-johnson-saw-at-planned-parenthood/ |title=What Abby Johnson Saw at Planned Parenthood |work=] |access-date=2011-07-02| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110714161910/http://www.ncregister.com/blog/what-abby-johnson-saw-at-planned-parenthood/| archive-date= July 14, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> | ||
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| ⚫ | Identifying as "extremely pro-choice," Johnson worked at the Planned Parenthood clinic in ] for eight years, escorting women into the clinic from their cars and eventually working as director of the clinic.<ref name="foxnews">{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/planned-parenthood-director-quits-after-watching-abortion-on-ultrasound/|title=Planned Parenthood Director Quits After Watching Abortion on Ultrasound|first=Joseph|last=Abrams|work=Fox News|date=November 2, 2009|access-date=June 30, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629062240/http://www.foxnews.com/us/2009/11/02/planned-parenthood-director-quits-watching-abortion-ultrasound/|archive-date=June 29, 2011|url-status= live}}</ref> Johnson regularly encountered activists from Coalition for Life (]), a local anti-abortion group which demonstrated at the clinic's fence, and described extensive harassment of clinic staff by anti-abortion activists.<ref name="salon" /> Johnson described death threats from anti-abortion activists against her and her family, stating: "It's very scary, this group of people that claim to be these peaceful prayer warriors, or whatever they call themselves, it's kind of ironic that some of them would be sending death threats."<ref name="salon" /> The Planned Parenthood clinic named Johnson employee of the year in 2008.<ref name="salon">{{cite news|url=http://www.salon.com/2009/11/03/planned_parenthood_2/|title=The conversion of a pro-choice warrior|access-date=April 8, 2011|last=Clark-Flory|first=Tracy|date=November 3, 2009|work=]}}</ref> | ||
| === Resignation === | |||
| Johnson says that in September 2009, she was called in to assist in an ultrasound-guided abortion at 13 weeks ]. She said she was disconcerted to see how similar the ultrasound image looked to her own daughter's. Johnson, who previously believed fetuses could not feel anything while being aborted, says she saw the fetus squirming and twisting to avoid the vacuum tube used for the abortion.<ref name="CNA">{{cite web|url=http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/abby-johnson-reveals-details-of-pro-life-turnaround-and-catholic-conversion/ |title=Abby Johnson reveals details of pro-life turnaround and Catholic conversion |publisher=] |accessdate=2011-07-02 |first=Benjamin |last=Mann}}</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | === Resignation from Planned Parenthood === | ||
| Johnson continued working at the clinic for 9 more days, but soon met with Shawn Carney, leader of the local anti-abortion group Coalition for Life, with whom she was well acquainted after his years of activism against Planned Parenthood. She told him she could no longer continue assisting women in getting abortions. She resigned on October 6, 2009.<ref name="CNA"/> | |||
| Johnson, in her description of her resignation from Planned Parenthood, says that in September 2009 she was called to assist in an ultrasound-guided abortion at thirteen weeks of ]. She said she was disconcerted to see how similar the ultrasound image looked to her own daughter's, and said that she saw the fetus squirming and twisting to avoid the vacuum tube used for the abortion.<ref name="CNA">{{cite web|url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/21730/abby-johnson-reveals-details-of-pro-life-turnaround-and-catholic-conversion |title=Abby Johnson reveals details of pro-life turnaround and Catholic conversion |publisher=] |access-date=2011-07-02 |first=Benjamin |last=Mann}}</ref> Johnson continued working at the clinic for nine more days, but soon met with Shawn Carney, leader of the local anti-abortion group Coalition for Life, and told him she could no longer continue assisting women in getting abortions. She resigned on October 6, 2009.<ref name="CNA"/> After her resignation, she said that her supervisors had pressured her to increase profits by performing more and more abortions at the clinic,<ref name="foxnews"/> but said that she could not produce any evidence to support her allegations,{{ r | foxnews| p=1 | q=Johnson said she never got any orders to increase profits in e-mails or letters, and had no way to prove her allegations about practices at the Bryan branch. She told FoxNews.com that pressure came in personal interactions with her regional manager from the larger Houston office. }} and that abortions account for 3% of all health services provided by Planned Parenthood,{{ r | salon | p=1 | q=Then there is the issue of her claim of pressure to increase the number of abortions performed at the clinic as a way of raking in more dough. That allegation contradicts Planned Parenthood's guiding mission, which is pregnancy prevention -- but more important, it contradicts the fact of the organization's business: Only 3 percent of all health services provided by Planned Parenthood are abortion. Of course, Johnson knows this as well as anybody. In fact, she cited this very statistic in one of her radio interviews in September. In response, the host asked: "So, it's really not that much." She responded: "No ... we think 3 percent is a very small amount." }} {{ r | TexasObserver_1 | p=1 | q=In a Sept. 27 interview on the community radio show "Fair and Feminist," for instance, Johnson criticized the language of the pro-life movement, specifically the phrase "abortion industry." "Only 3 percent of our services are abortion," she told the interviewer, Shelly Blair, who had asked if Planned Parenthood was really an "abortion facility." "So no, we don't think so. We think 3 percent is a very small amount, and our—I guess our goal has always been that every pregnancy is intended and wanted and, um, when we see a dip in abortion numbers we consider that a success." }} whose spokesperson stated that Johnson's allegations were "completely false".{{r | TexasObserver_1 | p=1 | q=The Bryan Planned Parenthood clinic referred questions about these allegations to Rochelle Tafolla, the organization's spokesperson for Southeast Texas. "It's completely false," she said. Planned Parenthood increased access to the pill, but that was five years ago, before the recession started. "The idea that it was any attempt to make money, that was completely false." }} In a September 2009 interview, Johnson acknowledged the 3% number,{{ r | salon | p=1 | q=Only 3 percent of all health services provided by Planned Parenthood are abortion. Of course, Johnson knows this as well as anybody. In fact, she cited this very statistic in one of her radio interviews in September. In response, the host asked: "So, it's really not that much." She responded: "No ... we think 3 percent is a very small amount." }} {{ r | TexasObserver_1 | p=1 | q=In a Sept. 27 interview on the community radio show "Fair and Feminist," for instance, Johnson criticized the language of the pro-life movement, specifically the phrase "abortion industry." "Only 3 percent of our services are abortion," she told the interviewer, Shelly Blair, who had asked if Planned Parenthood was really an "abortion facility." "So no, we don't think so. We think 3 percent is a very small amount, and our—I guess our goal has always been that every pregnancy is intended and wanted and, um, when we see a dip in abortion numbers we consider that a success." }} but in May 2011 Johnson stated that the figure is closer to 12%, and that Planned Parenthood artificially inflates the number of "services".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Johnson|first=Abby|date=2011-04-04|title=Exposing the Planned Parenthood business model|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/153699-exposing-the-planned-parenthood-business-model|access-date=2020-06-18|website=TheHill|language=en}}</ref> | |||
| Johnson said after her resignation that her bosses had pressured her to increase profits by performing more and more abortions at the clinic.<ref name="foxnews"/> Johnson conceded that she could not produce any written orders to prove her allegations,<ref name="foxnews"/> and an article on ] questioned Johnson's statements regarding financial incentives for abortions.<ref name="salon"/> | |||
| ⚫ | In court filings, Planned Parenthood said that Johnson was put on a ] four days before her resignation, and that she was then seen removing items from the clinic and copying confidential files and ] of an abortion provider to Coalition for Life.<ref name="salon"/> Planned Parenthood was granted a temporary injunction against Johnson after her resignation, preventing her from speaking about her job, and the order was lifted by a court a week later.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/69764852.html |title=Injunction Against Ex-Central Texas Planned Parenthood Director Lifted |publisher=Kwtx.com |date=2009-11-11 |access-date=July 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713174843/http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/69764852.html |archive-date=July 13, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Johnson said that the performance improvement plan was due to her reluctance to increase the number of abortions performed at her facility. Johnson says she did not remove, copy, or distribute any confidential information, and writes in her book that her attorney disproved these accusations at the time that the temporary order was lifted.<ref name="Unplanned">{{Cite book | ||
| Johnson's description of her conversion has been questioned. Planned Parenthood stated that its records do not show any ultrasound-guided abortions performed on the date Johnson says she witnessed the procedure, and the physician who performed abortions at the Bryan clinic stated that Johnson had never been asked to assist in an abortion. Although Johnson said the abortion was of a 13-week-old fetus, records from the Bryan clinic show no such abortions performed on the date in question.<ref name="texas-monthly">{{cite web| work = ] | first = Nate | last = Blakeslee | title = The Convert | date = February 2010 | access-date = June 30, 2011 | url = http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-convert/ | quote = "The Bryan clinic reported performing fifteen surgical abortions on September 26. Johnson has consistently said that the patient in question was thirteen weeks pregnant, which is plausible, since thirteen weeks is right at the cusp of when physicians will consider using an ultrasound to assist with the procedure. Yet none of the patients listed on the report for that day were thirteen weeks pregnant; in fact, none were beyond ten weeks."}}</ref> In response, Johnson stated that the data Planned Parenthood gave to the media was not the official "Induced Abortion Reporting" forms sent to the Texas Department of Health, and that even those official forms do not document the use of an ultrasound guide. She attributes the lack of records for a 13-week-old fetus abortion to Planned Parenthood's poor-recordkeeping and possible manipulation of records, and notes that the organization has not directly attempted to disprove that the event happened, including when they sued her in court.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Abby |title=I Really Did See An Ultrasound-Guided Abortion That Made Me Pro-Life |url=https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/08/yes-really-see-ultrasound-guided-abortion-made-pro-life/ |accessdate=April 13, 2019 |work=The Federalist |date=April 8, 2019}}</ref> | |||
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| Johnson's description of her conversion has been questioned by two investigative journalists in the '']'' and '']''.<ref name=texas-monthly>{{ cite magazine | magazine = ] | first = Nate | last = Blakeslee | title = The Convert - Former Bryan Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson's abrupt change from pro-choice activist to pro-life spokesperson turned her into a talk show sensation. But is her story true? | date = February 2010 | access-date = June 30, 2011 | url = http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-convert/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150817063759/https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-convert/ | archive-date=2015-08-17 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=TexasObserver_1 >{{ cite magazine | url=https://www.texasobserver.org/conversion-story/ | title=Conversion Story - How Bryan's Planned Parenthood director became a pro-life celebrity. | last=Elbein | first=Saul | newspaper=] | date=2010-01-28 | access-date=2020-05-28 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121217162821/https://www.texasobserver.org/conversion-story/ | archive-date=2012-12-17 | url-status=live }}</ref> In the Texas Monthly story, reporter Nate Blakeslee said that one day after the epiphany Johnson stated she had while watching an ultrasound guided abortion, she gave a radio interview on a feminist program in which she was enthusiastic about her clinic and critical of the 40 Days for Life protestors.{{ r | texas-monthly | p=1 | q=... on September 27, the day after Johnson says she witnessed the ultrasound-guided abortion and had her epiphany, she appeared as a guest on the Bryan public radio program Fair and Feminist to discuss her work at the clinic. In the hour-long interview, Johnson gives an enthusiastic defense of the clinic and ridicules the 40 Days for Life protest. She doesn't sound like someone who'd had a life-changing experience the previous day or who had soured on her employer's mission. }} Additionally, Johnson stated to Blakeslee that the woman having the abortion she witnessed was black, and thirteen weeks pregnant,{{ r | texas-monthly | p=1 | q=When I asked if she could provide any other details of what she saw that day to help firm up her story, Johnson volunteered that the patient in question was a black woman, a description that she has never previously included in her account. }} yet according to the Induced Abortion Report Forms (which are required to be filed with the state of Texas), only one woman that day was black; she was in her sixth week of pregnancy, and no patient that day was more than ten weeks.{{ r | texas-monthly | p=1 | q=The Texas Department of State Health Services requires abortion providers to fill out a form documenting basic information about each procedure performed at a clinic. This document is known as the Induced Abortion Report Form. The Bryan clinic reported performing fifteen surgical abortions on September 26. Johnson has consistently said that the patient in question was thirteen weeks pregnant, which is plausible, since thirteen weeks is right at the cusp of when physicians will consider using an ultrasound to assist with the procedure. Yet none of the patients listed on the report for that day were thirteen weeks pregnant; in fact, none were beyond ten weeks. ... Only one patient from September 26 was black, according to the Induced Abortion Report Form, and she was in the sixth week of her pregnancy. }} According to Planned Parenthood, their records do not show any ultrasound-guided abortions performed on the date when Johnson said she witnessed the procedure, and the physician at the Bryan clinic stated that Johnson had never been asked to assist in an abortion.{{ r | texas-monthly | p=1 | q=Johnson's account is so plausible and rich in detail that even Planned Parenthood seems not to have investigated whether this event ever took place. At my request, the staff at the Bryan clinic examined patient records from September 26, the day Johnson claims to have had her conversion experience, and spoke with the physician who performed abortions on that date. According to Planned Parenthood, there is no record of an ultrasound-guided abortion performed on September 26. The physician on duty told the organization that he did not use an ultrasound that day, nor did Johnson assist on any abortion procedure. "Planned Parenthood can assure you that no abortion patients underwent an ultrasound-guided abortion on September 26," said a spokesperson. It's difficult to imagine that Johnson simply got the date wrong; September 12 was the only other day that month that the clinic performed surgical abortions. }} | |||
| ⚫ | Johnson's story received national coverage starting in November 2009, at which point she was embraced by the anti-abortion movement and compared to ], the "Jane Roe" of '']'', the ] case that legalized abortion in 1973. McCorvey joined the anti-abortion movement in 1995.<ref>{{cite |
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| Blakeslee also said that during the court hearing for Planned Parenthood's injunction, two former co-workers of Johnson testified that she was afraid she would be fired.{{ r | texas-monthly | p=1 | q=At a court hearing for an injunction sought by Planned Parenthood to prevent Johnson from divulging confidential information to her new allies, two of Johnson's former co-workers testified that she told them in the days before she resigned that she was afraid she was about to be fired. At one time, Johnson, who was named the regional Planned Parenthood affiliate's employee of the year in 2008, seemed to have a promising future with the organization. By mid-2009, however, her relationship with her employer had begun to deteriorate. Salon reported that on October 2, Johnson was summoned to Houston to meet with her supervisors to discuss problems with her job performance. She was placed on what Planned Parenthood calls a "performance improvement plan." It was just three days later, on Monday, that Johnson made her tearful appearance at the Coalition for Life. The following day she faxed Planned Parenthood a resignation letter, which mentioned nothing about a crisis of conscience. }} Co-workers also testified that Johnson told them that Coalition for Life could find jobs for them, all they had to do was say they had a "moral conflict" against working at Planned Parenthood.{{ r | texas-monthly | p=1 | q=According to testimony at that hearing, on the day she quit her job Johnson told two young co-workers that the Coalition for Life could find them jobs, just as it had offered to do for her. All they had to do, one of the young women testified, was say they could no longer work at Planned Parenthood because of a "moral conflict." }} Additionally, he states that her social media postings immediately prior to her resignation never suggested any morality qualms, only someone tired of their job and angry at their employer.{{ r | texas-monthly | p=1 | q=Postings on Johnson's Facebook page, obtained by Texas Monthly, suggest an employee worn out by her job and feeling hurt, angry, and unappreciated—not one struggling with the morality of her profession. On September 24, two weeks before she resigned, she wrote, "So tired. Want a day off. Too busy. Blah." Similar sentiments followed, along with expressions of dread over her coming disciplinary meeting in Houston. This is what she wrote on the night she quit: Alright. Here's the deal. I have been doing the work of two full time people for two years. Then, after I have been working my whole big butt off for them and prioritizing that company over my family, my friends and pretty much everything else in my life, they have the nerve to tell me that my job performance is "slipping." WHAT???!!! That is crazy. Anyone that knows me knows how committed I was to that job. They obviously do not value me at all. So, I'm out and I feel really great about it! ... She never mentioned being pressured to increase abortions, having witnessed the ultrasound-guided procedure, or having suffered a moral crisis. }} | |||
| In the Texas Observer article, author Saul Elbein interviewed Johnson and two of her friends. According to Laura Kaminczak, a friend of Johnson's since graduate school who worked at a different Planned Parenthood clinic, Johnson's resignation from Planned Parenthood and conversion to anti-abortion was "completely opportunistic."{{ r | TexasObserver_1 | p=1 | q=Johnson, Kaminczak thinks, left Planned Parenthood because she felt unappreciated, and then realized that she had serious financial problems that could be complicated by her departure. Johnson's conversion, she thinks, was "completely opportunistic." "This whole thing is really just about a disgruntled employee," Kaminczak said. "That's all. It's all just her way of getting back at Diane." }} Kaminczak stated that Johnson was disciplined at work because Kaminczak and Johnson had been exchanging emails with "inappropriate discussion" of their employees, for which Johnson was placed on a performance improvement plan, and Kaminczak was fired.{{ r | TexasObserver_1 | p=1 | q=According to Kaminczak, who talked to her friend regularly last fall, Johnson quit Planned Parenthood for entirely nonreligious reasons. Kaminczak said Johnson's reasons boiled down to workplace drama. Kaminczak had been promoted to assistant director at another clinic, she said, and she and Johnson had kept up via e-mail. Those e-mails contained graphic talk about Kaminczak's sex life, as well as "inappropriate discussion" of their respective employees. One of Kaminczak's "problem employees" saw the messages on her boss's computer and, when Kaminczak pushed for her to be fired, complained to regional supervisors. Kaminczak wouldn't be more specific about what was in the e-mails, but she said that it was bad. When Planned Parenthood read the exchanges, she was fired for "inappropriate use of work e-mail." Johnson was placed on a "performance improvement plan," which meant she had to meet with Diane Santos, the regional director, every week "to discuss her performance." }} Kaminczak also said that Johnson was not upset after seeing the abortion on ultrasound, but was excited about it because it seemed more humane than the standard procedure.{{ r | TexasObserver_1 | p=1 | q="I talked to her right after she saw that abortion," Kaminczak said. "She was super-excited about it—she said it seemed a lot more humane then the normal procedure, like the patient was in a lot less pain." She wasn't bothered at all? "I mean, I asked her that," Kaminczak said. "She said no. }} Shelly Blair, another of Johnson's friends, and Kaminczak both stated that Johnson had financial problems, and was considering bankruptcy before she resigned from Planned Parenthood.{{ r | TexasObserver_1 | p=1 | q=Blair, the "Fair and Feminist" host, also volunteers at Planned Parenthood, and she told a similar story. She considered Johnson a close friend and role model, she said, and just before Johnson quit, the two were "working on some things in her office. And she was on hold, looking at all of the loan information, saying, 'I don't know what to do, I'm thinking about declaring bankruptcy.'" ... "She called me two weeks before this whole thing broke," Kaminczak said, "and she told me she was thinking about going to the coalition. She had been having serious money problems—she'd been talking about bankruptcy—and she told me that Shawn had promised her $3,000 speaking gigs if she came over." }} Kaminczak went on to say that Johnson confided that Shawn Carney of Coalition for Life had promised her money for speaking arrangements if she converted. The author concludes with: "Johnson can't stop talking about the people who wronged her, about how hard she worked, about how little she was appreciated. She'll talk about how nasty her boss was, how her co-workers sold her out, how no one cared for the women as much as she did. She'll talk about how the progressives kicked her out of their club because she became pro-life, and how her friends dropped her, and how unfair it all is. The more she talks, the more Abby Johnson's issue with Planned Parenthood seems to be its treatment of Abby Johnson."{{ r | TexasObserver_1 }} | |||
| ⚫ | Johnson's story received national coverage starting in November 2009, at which point she was embraced by the anti-abortion movement and compared to ], the "Jane Roe" of '']'', the ] case that legalized abortion in 1973. McCorvey joined the anti-abortion movement in 1995.<ref>{{cite news|first=Anne-Marie |last=Dorning |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/planned-parenthood-clinic-director-joins-anti-abortion-group/story?id=8999720&page=2 |title=Planned Parenthood Clinic Director Joins Pro-Life Group |work=] |date=2009-11-05 |access-date=2011-07-02| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110628202650/https://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/planned-parenthood-clinic-director-joins-anti-abortion-group/story?id=8999720&page=2| archive-date= June 28, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref> | ||
| == Anti-abortion activism == | == Anti-abortion activism == | ||
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| Soon after her resignation, Johnson began volunteering with the Coalition for Life, which regularly prayed outside her former clinic.<ref name="telegraph">{{Cite |
Soon after her resignation, Johnson began volunteering with the Coalition for Life, which regularly prayed outside her former clinic.<ref name="telegraph">{{Cite news|last=Allen |first=Nick |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6489418/Planned-Parenthood-leader-resigns-after-watching-abortion-ultrasound.html |title=Planned Parenthood leader resigns after watching abortion ultrasound |work=]|location=London|date=2009-11-02 |access-date=2011-07-02}}</ref> Johnson is the author of two books. ''Unplanned'', released in January 2011, details her work at Planned Parenthood and her conversion to abortion opposition; the book is the basis for ] which was released in March 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/pro-life-activist-abby-johnson-reacts-to-r-rating-for-anti-abortion-film-we-are-pushing-the-boundaries|title=Pro-life activist Abby Johnson reacts to R rating for anti-abortion film: 'We are pushing the boundaries'|last=Nolasco|first=Stephanie|date=2019-02-25|work=Fox News|language=en-US|access-date=March 26, 2019}}</ref> ''The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories'', released in 2016, recounts stories of former abortion workers that have come through her ministry. | ||
| Johnson runs an anti-abortion ministry, And Then There Were None (ATTWN), which lobbies abortion-clinic workers to leave the industry and which provides money and counseling for those who do.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2018/01/11/577104446/the-anti-abortion-group-thats-urging-clinic-workers-to-quit-their-jobs|title=The Anti-Abortion Group That's Urging Clinic Workers to Quit Their Jobs|last=McCammon|first=Sarah|date=January 11, 2018|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2019-09-08}}</ref> Johnson attended the ], a massive protest against newly inaugurated President ] in January 2017,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Green |first=Emma |date=2017-01-16 |title=These Pro-Lifers Are Headed to the Women's March on Washington |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/pro-lifers-womens-march/513104/ |access-date=2022-07-25 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoconnor/the-anti-abortion-women-who-still-marched|title=The Anti-Abortion Women Who Still Marched|website=] |date=January 22, 2017 }}</ref> and she subsequently spoke at the ] in support of Trump's re-election campaign.<ref name="abc-1"/><ref name="vox-1">{{cite news |publisher = Vox.com | first = Anna | last = North | title = Trump's pitch to evangelical voters, explained in one RNC speech | url = https://www.vox.com/2020/8/25/21402005/abby-johnson-rnc-trump-abortion-convention-2020}}</ref> | |||
| ==Politics== | |||
| Johnson has since adopted the ], opposing not just abortion—in all cases<ref name="CLE">{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/notes/abby-johnson-prowoman-prochild-prolife/frequently-asked-questions/778690595474349 |title=Frequently Asked Questions |author=Abby Johnson |website=] |date=August 5, 2014}}</ref>—but also the death penalty and euthanasia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://media.wix.com/ugd/7f0bd5_2c39a434d6d542fc8980605cbbab490f.pdf|title=''Abby Johnson. Consistent''|author=|date=|website=wix.com|access-date=March 29, 2019}}</ref> She affirms ] over the use of any form of artificial ].<ref name="CLE"/> | |||
| In the lead-up to Johnson's speech at the ],<ref>{{cite web |last1=North |first1=Anna |title=Trump's pitch to evangelical voters, explained in one RNC speech |url=https://www.vox.com/2020/8/25/21402005/abby-johnson-rnc-trump-abortion-convention-2020 |website=Vox |access-date=26 August 2020 |language=en |date=25 August 2020}}</ref> media attention was drawn to some of Johnson's other political views outside of her stance on abortion.<ref>{{cite news |title=Trump's Convention Gives Platform to Some With Fringe Views |url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/08/26/us/politics/ap-us-election-2020-rnc-fringe-speakers.html |access-date=August 28, 2020 |work=New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=August 26, 2020}}</ref> | |||
| === Household voting === | |||
| Johnson is the author of two books. ''Unplanned'', released in January 2011, details her work at Planned Parenthood and her conversion to abortion opposition; the book is the basis for ] which was released in March 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/pro-life-activist-abby-johnson-reacts-to-r-rating-for-anti-abortion-film-we-are-pushing-the-boundaries|title=Pro-life activist Abby Johnson reacts to R rating for anti-abortion film: 'We are pushing the boundaries'|last=Nolasco|first=Stephanie|date=2019-02-25|website=Fox News|language=en-US|access-date=March 26, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Bourne|first=Lisa|title=WATCH: Trailer released for 'Unplanned' movie about Abby Johnson's pro-life conversion|date=January 31, 2019|url=https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-trailer-released-for-unplanned-movie-about-abby-johnsons-pro-life-con|website=]}}</ref> ''The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories'', released in 2016, recounts stories of former abortion workers that have come through her ministry. | |||
| On ], Johnson advocated changing the electoral system to give each household a single vote. In response to a question about potential disagreement between husband and wife, she wrote that "in a Godly household, the husband would get the final say".<ref>{{Cite web|title=RNC speaker supported wives deferring to husbands on political decisions|url=https://www.wtol.com/article/news/nation-world/abby-johnson-household-voting-rnc/507-69010b4e-9d77-4eb6-8293-acb9cbd8e488|access-date=2020-08-26|website=wtol.com|date=August 26, 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
| === COVID-19 pandemic === | |||
| Johnson runs an anti-abortion ministry, And Then There Were None (ATTWN). The organization seeks to help abortion clinic workers leave the industry. ATTWN was founded in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abortionworker.com/|title=AbortionWorker|author=|date=|website=abortionworker.com|access-date=March 29, 2019}}</ref> | |||
| Johnson stated that all Christians have a moral obligation to reject the new COVID-19 vaccines because of their potential links to abortions.<ref name=Vice_2020-12-17 >{{cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvxdz5/the-gops-fave-anti-abortion-celebrity-is-a-covid-anti-vaxxer-now|title=The GOP's Fave Anti-Abortion Celebrity Is a COVID Anti-Vaxxer Now|publisher=] |first=Carter|last=Sherman|date=December 17, 2020}}</ref> (The AstraZeneca vaccine was created with fetal cells from decades-old abortions, kept alive and replicating in labs.{{ r | Vice_2020-12-17 | p=1 | q=Fetal cells are widely used in drug development and have led to the production of the modern vaccines that combat major diseases like the chickenpox and hepatitis A. Researchers use fetal cells collected from decades-old abortions, which are then replicated over and over again in labs. Developers of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was also created by the University of Oxford, relied on that kind of old fetal cell line. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were not created with and do not require fetal cell cultures in the production process, according to the Mayo Clinic. Pfizer and Moderna both use mRNA vaccine technology. Fetal cells were used early on in the development of that technology. }} The Pfizer and Moderna ]s were not created with fetal cells, though fetal cells were used in development of the mRNA technology.{{ r | Vice_2020-12-17 | p=1 | q=Fetal cells are widely used in drug development and have led to the production of the modern vaccines that combat major diseases like the chickenpox and hepatitis A. Researchers use fetal cells collected from decades-old abortions, which are then replicated over and over again in labs. Developers of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which was also created by the University of Oxford, relied on that kind of old fetal cell line. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were not created with and do not require fetal cell cultures in the production process, according to the Mayo Clinic. Pfizer and Moderna both use mRNA vaccine technology. Fetal cells were used early on in the development of that technology. }}) The ] (USCCB) stated that if there aren't other vaccines available, then Catholics should get vaccinated as part of their “moral responsibility for the common good.”{{ r | Vice_2020-12-17 | p=1 | q=The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has previously said that although vaccines created “using fetal tissue from induced abortions” do offer a “moral dilemma” for Catholics, they can take them if there’s no other way to get inoculated. So far, the bishops have officially stuck by that guidance. On Monday, the organization released a statement, signed by two of its preeminent members, that urged Catholics to get inoculated against COVID-19 as part of their “moral responsibility for the common good.”}} Johnson stated that the USCCB was being hypocritical and "cowering to Big Pharma," and that she intends to protest the vaccines.{{ r | Vice_2020-12-17 }} Johnson stated that she intends not to get a COVID-19 vaccine because she does not trust a fast-tracked approval FDA approval process, stating that she is “not anti-vaccine.”{{ r | Vice_2020-12-17 | p=1 | q=Johnson, for her part, said at the beginning of her video that she had no plans to take a COVID-19 vaccine—but her reluctance has nothing to do with abortion. “I don’t trust any vaccine that was fast-tracked through the FDA,” she said, though she described herself as “not anti-vaccine.” Johnson claimed that there are “ethical alternatives out there for these vaccines,” although she also suggested that these “alternatives” have also not been fully developed. And she blamed Catholic leadership for that.}} | |||
| === Comments on racial profiling === | |||
| Johnson attended the ] in ] on January 21, 2017.<ref>Green, Emma (January 16, 2017). , ''The Atlantic''. Retrieved January 18, 2017.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emaoconnor/the-anti-abortion-women-who-still-marched|title=The Anti-Abortion Women Who Still Marched}}</ref> | |||
| In August 2020, Johnson stated in a later deleted YouTube video that police would be "smart" if they ] her mixed-race son and "would be more careful around my brown son than my white son." Johnson has also said, "Statistically, I look at our prison population, and I see that there is a disproportionately high number of ] males in our prison population for crimes, particularly for violent crimes. So statistically, when a police officer sees a brown man like my (son) Jude walking down the road — as opposed to my white nerdy kids, my white nerdy men walking down the road — because of the statistics that he knows in his head, that these police officers know in their head, they're going to know that statistically my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons." These remarks attracted controversy.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Haltiwanger |first1=John |date=26 August 2020 |title=An RNC speaker said it would be 'smart' for the police to racially profile her biracial son because of 'statistics' |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/rnc-speaker-condones-police-racially-profiling-her-biracial-son-2020-8 |access-date=26 August 2020 |website=Business Insider}}</ref> | |||
| == Personal life == | == Personal life == | ||
| Johnson |
Johnson said in January 2011 that she had two abortions herself before the birth of her daughter.<ref name="CNA" /> She lives in Texas with her husband Doug<ref name=TyndaleBio /> and eight children.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://abbyj.com/about/|title=About|access-date=February 12, 2024|work=abbyj.com}}</ref> | ||
| Johnson was raised as a ], but left the church because it objected to her work at Planned Parenthood. She and her husband Doug, who was raised ], stopped attending church altogether for two years before joining the ], which has one of the most liberal stances on abortion of any ] denomination. After she went public with her conversion to the anti-abortion position, Johnson said she felt unwelcome at this church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/13/former-planned-parenthood-director-church-chilly-t/ |title=Former clinic director: Church chilly to my pro-life turn |work=] |date=2009-11-13 | |
Johnson was raised as a ], but left the church because it objected to her work at Planned Parenthood. She and her husband Doug, who was raised ], stopped attending church altogether for two years before joining the ], which has one of the most liberal stances on abortion of any ] denomination. After she went public with her conversion to the anti-abortion position, Johnson said she felt unwelcome at this church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/13/former-planned-parenthood-director-church-chilly-t/ |title=Former clinic director: Church chilly to my pro-life turn |work=] |date=2009-11-13 |access-date=2011-07-02 |first=Julia |last=Duin}}</ref> She and her husband converted to ] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chnetwork.org/journey-home/abby-johnson-former-baptist-and-episcopalian/ |title=Abby Johnson – Former Baptist and Episcopalian |work=] |date=2019-01-22}}</ref> | ||
| ==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
| *{{cite book |title=Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line |date= 2010 |publisher=SaltRiver/]|location=Colorado Springs |
*{{cite book |title=Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line|first1= Abby|last1= Johnson|first2= Cindy|last2= Lambert|date= 2010 |publisher=SaltRiver/]|location=Colorado Springs }} | ||
| **Adapted into ] | **Adapted into ] | ||
| *{{cite book |title= The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories |date=2016 |publisher=Ignatius Press |location=San Francisco |isbn=978-1-58617-797-3|oclc= 936344831}} | *{{cite book |title= The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories |first= Abby|last= Johnson|date=2016 |publisher=Ignatius Press |location=San Francisco |isbn=978-1-58617-797-3|oclc= 936344831}} | ||
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American activist and author (born 1980)
| Abby Johnson | |
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_(1).jpg) Johnson at Spanish anti-abortion organization HazteOir in 2015. | |
| Born | (1980-07-11) July 11, 1980 (age 44) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Texas A&M University (BA) Sam Houston State University (MA) |
| Occupations |
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| Known for | Anti-abortion activism |
Abby Johnson (born July 11, 1980) is an American anti-abortion activist who previously worked at Planned Parenthood as a clinic director, but resigned in October 2009. She states that she resigned after watching an abortion on ultrasound. The veracity of her account and the details and motivation for her conversion have been challenged by investigative reporters, as medical records contradict some of her claims.
Her memoir, Unplanned, was made into the 2019 movie of the same title.
Early life and work
Johnson grew up in Rockdale, Texas, and graduated from Rockdale High School. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in psychology from Texas A&M University and Master of Arts in counseling from Sam Houston State University. Although raised in a conservative family opposed to abortion, Johnson began volunteering for Planned Parenthood in 2001 after seeing their booth at a volunteer fair at her college.
Identifying as "extremely pro-choice," Johnson worked at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas for eight years, escorting women into the clinic from their cars and eventually working as director of the clinic. Johnson regularly encountered activists from Coalition for Life (40 Days for Life), a local anti-abortion group which demonstrated at the clinic's fence, and described extensive harassment of clinic staff by anti-abortion activists. Johnson described death threats from anti-abortion activists against her and her family, stating: "It's very scary, this group of people that claim to be these peaceful prayer warriors, or whatever they call themselves, it's kind of ironic that some of them would be sending death threats." The Planned Parenthood clinic named Johnson employee of the year in 2008.
Resignation from Planned Parenthood
Johnson, in her description of her resignation from Planned Parenthood, says that in September 2009 she was called to assist in an ultrasound-guided abortion at thirteen weeks of gestation. She said she was disconcerted to see how similar the ultrasound image looked to her own daughter's, and said that she saw the fetus squirming and twisting to avoid the vacuum tube used for the abortion. Johnson continued working at the clinic for nine more days, but soon met with Shawn Carney, leader of the local anti-abortion group Coalition for Life, and told him she could no longer continue assisting women in getting abortions. She resigned on October 6, 2009. After her resignation, she said that her supervisors had pressured her to increase profits by performing more and more abortions at the clinic, but said that she could not produce any evidence to support her allegations, and that abortions account for 3% of all health services provided by Planned Parenthood, whose spokesperson stated that Johnson's allegations were "completely false". In a September 2009 interview, Johnson acknowledged the 3% number, but in May 2011 Johnson stated that the figure is closer to 12%, and that Planned Parenthood artificially inflates the number of "services".
In court filings, Planned Parenthood said that Johnson was put on a performance improvement plan four days before her resignation, and that she was then seen removing items from the clinic and copying confidential files and gave the home address and phone number of an abortion provider to Coalition for Life. Planned Parenthood was granted a temporary injunction against Johnson after her resignation, preventing her from speaking about her job, and the order was lifted by a court a week later. Johnson said that the performance improvement plan was due to her reluctance to increase the number of abortions performed at her facility. Johnson says she did not remove, copy, or distribute any confidential information, and writes in her book that her attorney disproved these accusations at the time that the temporary order was lifted.
Johnson's description of her conversion has been questioned by two investigative journalists in the Texas Monthly and The Texas Observer. In the Texas Monthly story, reporter Nate Blakeslee said that one day after the epiphany Johnson stated she had while watching an ultrasound guided abortion, she gave a radio interview on a feminist program in which she was enthusiastic about her clinic and critical of the 40 Days for Life protestors. Additionally, Johnson stated to Blakeslee that the woman having the abortion she witnessed was black, and thirteen weeks pregnant, yet according to the Induced Abortion Report Forms (which are required to be filed with the state of Texas), only one woman that day was black; she was in her sixth week of pregnancy, and no patient that day was more than ten weeks. According to Planned Parenthood, their records do not show any ultrasound-guided abortions performed on the date when Johnson said she witnessed the procedure, and the physician at the Bryan clinic stated that Johnson had never been asked to assist in an abortion.
Blakeslee also said that during the court hearing for Planned Parenthood's injunction, two former co-workers of Johnson testified that she was afraid she would be fired. Co-workers also testified that Johnson told them that Coalition for Life could find jobs for them, all they had to do was say they had a "moral conflict" against working at Planned Parenthood. Additionally, he states that her social media postings immediately prior to her resignation never suggested any morality qualms, only someone tired of their job and angry at their employer.
In the Texas Observer article, author Saul Elbein interviewed Johnson and two of her friends. According to Laura Kaminczak, a friend of Johnson's since graduate school who worked at a different Planned Parenthood clinic, Johnson's resignation from Planned Parenthood and conversion to anti-abortion was "completely opportunistic." Kaminczak stated that Johnson was disciplined at work because Kaminczak and Johnson had been exchanging emails with "inappropriate discussion" of their employees, for which Johnson was placed on a performance improvement plan, and Kaminczak was fired. Kaminczak also said that Johnson was not upset after seeing the abortion on ultrasound, but was excited about it because it seemed more humane than the standard procedure. Shelly Blair, another of Johnson's friends, and Kaminczak both stated that Johnson had financial problems, and was considering bankruptcy before she resigned from Planned Parenthood. Kaminczak went on to say that Johnson confided that Shawn Carney of Coalition for Life had promised her money for speaking arrangements if she converted. The author concludes with: "Johnson can't stop talking about the people who wronged her, about how hard she worked, about how little she was appreciated. She'll talk about how nasty her boss was, how her co-workers sold her out, how no one cared for the women as much as she did. She'll talk about how the progressives kicked her out of their club because she became pro-life, and how her friends dropped her, and how unfair it all is. The more she talks, the more Abby Johnson's issue with Planned Parenthood seems to be its treatment of Abby Johnson."
Johnson's story received national coverage starting in November 2009, at which point she was embraced by the anti-abortion movement and compared to Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade, the United States Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in 1973. McCorvey joined the anti-abortion movement in 1995.
Anti-abortion activism
Soon after her resignation, Johnson began volunteering with the Coalition for Life, which regularly prayed outside her former clinic. Johnson is the author of two books. Unplanned, released in January 2011, details her work at Planned Parenthood and her conversion to abortion opposition; the book is the basis for a film which was released in March 2019. The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories, released in 2016, recounts stories of former abortion workers that have come through her ministry.
Johnson runs an anti-abortion ministry, And Then There Were None (ATTWN), which lobbies abortion-clinic workers to leave the industry and which provides money and counseling for those who do. Johnson attended the 2017 Women's March, a massive protest against newly inaugurated President Donald Trump in January 2017, and she subsequently spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention in support of Trump's re-election campaign.
Politics
In the lead-up to Johnson's speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention, media attention was drawn to some of Johnson's other political views outside of her stance on abortion.
Household voting
On Twitter, Johnson advocated changing the electoral system to give each household a single vote. In response to a question about potential disagreement between husband and wife, she wrote that "in a Godly household, the husband would get the final say".
COVID-19 pandemic
Johnson stated that all Christians have a moral obligation to reject the new COVID-19 vaccines because of their potential links to abortions. (The AstraZeneca vaccine was created with fetal cells from decades-old abortions, kept alive and replicating in labs. The Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines were not created with fetal cells, though fetal cells were used in development of the mRNA technology.) The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) stated that if there aren't other vaccines available, then Catholics should get vaccinated as part of their “moral responsibility for the common good.” Johnson stated that the USCCB was being hypocritical and "cowering to Big Pharma," and that she intends to protest the vaccines. Johnson stated that she intends not to get a COVID-19 vaccine because she does not trust a fast-tracked approval FDA approval process, stating that she is “not anti-vaccine.”
Comments on racial profiling
In August 2020, Johnson stated in a later deleted YouTube video that police would be "smart" if they racially profiled her mixed-race son and "would be more careful around my brown son than my white son." Johnson has also said, "Statistically, I look at our prison population, and I see that there is a disproportionately high number of African American males in our prison population for crimes, particularly for violent crimes. So statistically, when a police officer sees a brown man like my (son) Jude walking down the road — as opposed to my white nerdy kids, my white nerdy men walking down the road — because of the statistics that he knows in his head, that these police officers know in their head, they're going to know that statistically my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons." These remarks attracted controversy.
Personal life
Johnson said in January 2011 that she had two abortions herself before the birth of her daughter. She lives in Texas with her husband Doug and eight children.
Johnson was raised as a Southern Baptist, but left the church because it objected to her work at Planned Parenthood. She and her husband Doug, who was raised Lutheran, stopped attending church altogether for two years before joining the Episcopal Church, which has one of the most liberal stances on abortion of any Mainline Protestant denomination. After she went public with her conversion to the anti-abortion position, Johnson said she felt unwelcome at this church. She and her husband converted to Catholicism in 2012.
Bibliography
- Johnson, Abby; Lambert, Cindy (2010). Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line. Colorado Springs: SaltRiver/Focus on the Family.
- Adapted into a 2019 movie with the same name.
- Johnson, Abby (2016). The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories. San Francisco: Ignatius Press. ISBN 978-1-58617-797-3. OCLC 936344831.
See also
References
- ^ "They Say It's Your Birthday". Abby Johnson. Retrieved March 29, 2019.
- ^ Blakeslee, Nate (February 2010). "The Convert - Former Bryan Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson's abrupt change from pro-choice activist to pro-life spokesperson turned her into a talk show sensation. But is her story true?". Texas Monthly. Archived from the original on August 17, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Elbein, Saul (January 28, 2010). "Conversion Story - How Bryan's Planned Parenthood director became a pro-life celebrity". Texas Observer. Archived from the original on December 17, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
- ^ Siegel, Benjamin; Pereira, Ivan (August 25, 2020). "Former Planned Parenthood employee Abby Johnson's anti-abortion comments under scrutiny after graphic RNC speech". ABC News.
- ^ "Author Biography: Abby Johnson". Tyndale House Publishers.
- Drake, Tim. "What Abby Johnson Saw at Planned Parenthood". National Catholic Register. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
- ^ Abrams, Joseph (November 2, 2009). "Planned Parenthood Director Quits After Watching Abortion on Ultrasound". Fox News. Archived from the original on June 29, 2011. Retrieved June 30, 2011.
- ^ Clark-Flory, Tracy (November 3, 2009). "The conversion of a pro-choice warrior". Salon. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
- ^ Mann, Benjamin. "Abby Johnson reveals details of pro-life turnaround and Catholic conversion". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
- Johnson, Abby (April 4, 2011). "Exposing the Planned Parenthood business model". TheHill. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
- "Injunction Against Ex-Central Texas Planned Parenthood Director Lifted". Kwtx.com. November 11, 2009. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
- Johnson, Abby (2011). Unplanned. SaltRiver. ISBN 978-1-4143-3939-9.
- Dorning, Anne-Marie (November 5, 2009). "Planned Parenthood Clinic Director Joins Pro-Life Group". ABC News. Archived from the original on June 28, 2011. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
- Allen, Nick (November 2, 2009). "Planned Parenthood leader resigns after watching abortion ultrasound". The Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
- Nolasco, Stephanie (February 25, 2019). "Pro-life activist Abby Johnson reacts to R rating for anti-abortion film: 'We are pushing the boundaries'". Fox News. Retrieved March 26, 2019.
- McCammon, Sarah (January 11, 2018). "The Anti-Abortion Group That's Urging Clinic Workers to Quit Their Jobs". NPR.org. Retrieved September 8, 2019.
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- "The Anti-Abortion Women Who Still Marched". BuzzFeed News. January 22, 2017.
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- "Trump's Convention Gives Platform to Some With Fringe Views". New York Times. Associated Press. August 26, 2020. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
- "RNC speaker supported wives deferring to husbands on political decisions". wtol.com. August 26, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
- ^ Sherman, Carter (December 17, 2020). "The GOP's Fave Anti-Abortion Celebrity Is a COVID Anti-Vaxxer Now". Vice Media.
- Haltiwanger, John (August 26, 2020). "An RNC speaker said it would be 'smart' for the police to racially profile her biracial son because of 'statistics'". Business Insider. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
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- Duin, Julia (November 13, 2009). "Former clinic director: Church chilly to my pro-life turn". The Washington Times. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
- "Abby Johnson – Former Baptist and Episcopalian". The Coming Home Network. January 22, 2019.
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