And Then There Were None: Shutting Down the Abortion Industry Person by Person
By: Jerry Newcombe
This is good news! The national nightmare that is the killing of our innocent children in abortuaries is finally beginning to recede. Pointing out Planned Parenthood for the barbarians that they are and convincing people one by one to leave the baby killing industry is good as is the states using regulations to bring these monsters under closer control and setting high health safety standards. The federal rules preventing planned non parenthood from hiding their baby parts selling and abortions behind the facade of other women’s health services better provided elsewhere. A good start. Only a few days until the next pro life baby memorial rally in Washington DC.
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Surge Summary: Person by person, former abortion clinic manager Abby Johnson’s pro-life ministry is now emptying the abortion industry of its workers and helping women find a new livlihood and new life outside of that bloody business in the process.
In 2008, Abby Johnson, the manager of the Bryan, Texas (100 miles from Houston) Planned Parenthood, became that organization’s Employee of the Year.
By 2009, she quit for conscience’ sake. Why?
That year, for the first time, she saw an ultrasound of an abortion of a 13-week old unborn child in her own clinic. This was not a blob of tissue, a clump of cells, a non-living being. This was a baby that was fighting for his life.
Although Abby Johnson was a good salesman of abortions and thought that she was helping women through her work, seeing that baby fighting for his life caused the scales to fall from her eyes.
Abby says that after she saw that ultrasound, “I knew that I had been part of a lie. I had been a part of a corrupt system, a corrupt organization, that really preyed upon women in their vulnerable states, and I knew that I needed to leave.”
She has now written a book (with Cindy Lambert) called Unplanned , and PureFlix (“God’s Not Dead”) has now turned that book into an excellent movie.
Abby Johnson has also started an outreach, And Then There Were None (ATTWN), to help abortion workers leave the field. I have interviewed Abby before and have previously written about her story. But here is an update about ATTWN, since I interviewed for Christian television two of her assistants at ATTWN recently.
One of them is Meagan Weber, who told me, “[Abby] wrote her book hoping that a worker would pick it up as a skeptic and see the truth, and see themselves through her words, and within three months of her book’s release in 2011, she had 17 abortion workers contact her for help.”
In effect, Abby and those 17 workers became the beginning of her work to help transition abortion clinic workers out of the field. Her reasoning is simple. She says in her ATTWN website, abortionworker.com , “We always say that nobody grows up wanting to work in the abortion industry. Nobody. Our vision statement for ‘And then there were none’ is ‘No abortion clinic workers, no abortion clinics, no abortions’—it starts with the workers. We see ourselves as being part of a pro-love movement. That we want to love these workers out of the clinics. We want to love them to a path of healing, and we want to love them back into a relationship with Jesus Christ.”
As an abortion worker, Abby Johnson had thought that what she was doing at Planned Parenthood was helping women. But she learned the hard way that the real bottom line of Planned Parenthood was its bottom line.
Weber, who serves as Abby Johnson’s Assistant, told me, “They asked her to increase the number of abortions at her facility by half, and so she said, ‘Don’t we tell the media that we want to reduce the number of abortions to make them safe, legal, and rare?’ And her supervisor laughed and said, ‘Well, Abbey, how do you think we make our money?’ And she really was blindsided by that.”
Weber also says, “Leaving your job in the abortion industry is not like leaving your job in a fast food outlet. It has the same high turnover rate, but you don’t just leave your job, you leave your friends, you leave your ideology…you go from one day championing women’s rights and abortion rights to the next day having to humble yourself and say, ‘I was wrong. I was part of a very evil system,’ and they have to come to terms with that. So there is a lot of emotional trauma, and there is abandonment.”
I also have spoken with Laura Ricketts of ATTWN for Christian television. She observed, “As we walk through the process of healing them, as we meet their practical needs with financial assistance, with resume writing, with jobs search help, as we help them pay their bills, get back on their feet, once their practical needs are met, they are ready to meet their emotion and spiritual needs.”
So far the organization has been able to help hundreds of clinic workers get out of the abortion field. Meagan states, “And so here we are seven years later, and we’ve helped 550 workers and 7 full-time doctors.”
The movie alone helped cause about a hundred abortion clinic workers to respond…to consider coming out. Ricketts told me, “I think one of the most exciting things about the movie is the impact it had across the country and now across the world. We saw hearts changed, abortion clinic workers leaving their jobs.”
Abby Johnson says, “My story is really an exposé. It’s pulling back the curtain into an industry that has been normalized. Abortion has been so incredibly normalized in our society, and it’s anything but normal.”
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Why is a woman having an abortion anybody else's business?
Hooray Abby Johnson. America must become the nation where all women, under penalty of law, must bear children regardless of financial, personal or emotional circumstance.
Besides, we all know the conservatives will raise the taxes and increase the budgets for healthcare, education and future opportunity. Right?
Well it was done prior to legal abortions.
Yes, and women died.
Unwanted pregnancy is a major cause of poverty and other problems
Assuming this account to be true, shouldn't we have a problem with this? I hear all the time that nobody is "pro-abortion" but this kind of makes it sound like Planned Parenthood is pro-abortion because it's profitable. Anybody want to condemn or defend this?
Can you name a medical profession that isn't designed to at least cover the expenses or be less than profitable?
Would you consider it ethical for a doctor to "sell" someone on an expensive, risky, invasive procedure (not to mention possibly morally troubling) when a simple lifestyle change would solve their problem? Why push a root canal or heart surgery when brushing and flossing or diet exercise are viable alternatives, particularly when the doctor's primary motivation is profit?
Sorry, no sale, Tacos.
They are addressing the issue AFTER the fact; talk of prevention is most often unnecessary after one procedure,
which is not "expensive or risky" when performed by trained professionals.
A child, on the other hand, is forever.
The patient has to live with her choice.
If the medical team has issues, they quit, like the subject of the article did.
Later
just picked up 2 dozen truck tacos
Dinner time!
And therein lies the problem. Her story may not be true. There are many inconsistencies told by her. You can read about them here:
Personally, I don't think anyone should be talked in or out of an abortion and that was not my experience with the local PP that I took my friends to. Instead, they were both told to go home and think about it and although their choices were very different, I think it goes to show that choice is the way to go. I am still friends with these women and it worked out well for both of them.
The only way to end abortions, is to stop the "free love" sex movement that the hippies started in the 60s. Until people start to learn that sex comes at a price and is not "free", we will have this problem. It's probably hopeless to be honest. Contraceptives are readily available and affordable in this country as well as public school education, yet this continues to be an issue. What can you do about dumb people?
Well, a lot of conservatives push "abstinence only" education and work their asses off to close places like Planned Parenthood that provide birth control and sex ed. Until these dumb people stop being so stupid, it probably IS hopeless.
When did high school stop teaching sex ed? That is publicly funded and mandatory; unless something has changed.
Of course it didn't stop teenage pregnancy back when I went; but maybe today's youth are smarter and more informed since teenage pregnancy seems to be on the decline.
I personally don't like Planned Parenthood. Had one very bad experience with them back when I was in college. I have no problem with their existence; but tax payer money should not go to funding them. Of course I feel the same way about any "non profit' or organization that operates a PAC.
I agree when related to abortion but i don't agree with outlawing a persons freedom to get an abortion if so desired. There are enough pro choice people out there, that are passionate about "Pro Choice", that they should have no problem collecting enough donations to fund their own abortion clinics. Other than that, i have zero problem with PP.
Release the hounds!
Right.
What do you call it when PP receives federal funding?
Next time try something that isn't so easy to disprove.
Teaching "abstinence only" sex ed doesn't actually count as teaching sex ed. Kids taught abstinence only don't have less sex, but when they do have sex they're more likely to get pregnant/get someone pregnant/get an STD because they don't use protection.
And no, sex ed isn't mandatory.
They don't spend any taxpayer funds on abortion.
Instead, they provide health care to lots of people and they do a lot to prevent unwanted pregnancies. A great organization.
Tess can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he was referring to PP receiving tax money for abortions. On that, with certain exceptions, he is correct.
My mistake. Apologies Tess
So your solution is what, regress back to Puritan times?
As they should be. Although, some schools might opt for abstinence only education or parents might prohibit sex ed for their children.
Only because some people think abortion is their business and want to restrict or prohibit it. It probably wouldn't be if people minded their own business, especially when it comes to another's choice.
"They don't take taxpayer funding"
Whaaaaaaa ?
"My mistake, they no longer receive Title IX funding"
"X" Funding ?
So ..… now they only receive 440 million a year, instead of 500 million a year in tax payer money ?
I don't think anyone would like the world where fair access to abortion is outlawed. Row v Wade is based on privacy rights between a individual and her health care practitioner. Reverse that and you open the door to reverse HIPPA. I'm certain Conservatives will be happy to share all their health information with anyone and everyone that can pay a hospital to get it.
In the Bible, did Jesus Christ ever specifically say abortion was bad?
Most people when presented with evidence of what the bible really does or does not say could care less. All they care about are their own feelings and interpretations of the world and they use any means necessary to try and enforce it on everyone else, including using religion as a scapegoat.
At no time has anyone I talked to that has used "God" or the bible as an excuse ever went...oh really, I did not realize the bible really said that, I am going to change the way I feel about X.
And now for something completely different:
Love that skit!