Southern Bread

Evidently, that’s what the eight year Director of the Planned Parenthood office in Bryan, TX decided after seeing an ultrasound of an abortion. She also was given to second thoughts after being pressured to bring in more abortion business and less prevention business. It’s a good read:

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.”

–Ashlea Sigman

This is why more groups like STR are now pushing to show the actual graphic images of abortions in certain situations. Seeing the actual act has a huge impact. Just like war. When you actually see an Iraqi civilian get there head blown into a thousand pieces by an M-16 it makes it a little harder to make statements like “we should just turn Iraq into a parking lot.” In the same way, many people need to see the graphic and horrible nature of what abortion really is before they will understand it’s truly evil nature.