Abby Johnson > Quotes

“Never trust a decision you don’t want your mother to know about.”
― Abby Johnson, Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line

“If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of me? Once you are pregnant, there is no if. That child, though tiny and in an early stage of development, already exists!”
― Abby Johnson, Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line

“When I’m asked today what someone might have said to get me to change my mind about having either abortion, I tell them it would be this: ‘What do you think would disappoint your parents most? To find out that you’d gotten pregnant, or to learn that you had taken the life of their grandchild?”
― Abby Johnson, Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line

“Never trust a decision you don’t want your mother to know about. How’s that for a brilliant insight?”
― Abby Johnson, Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line

“My God is in the business of miracles. And my God does not want anyone to suffer in hell. He wants all of his children to come to him—yes, even those of us “monsters” that are in or have been in the abortion industry. Hate comes from hell. Mercy comes from Christ. When we have hate in our hearts, our spirits are damaged. Be careful with your words. Not only are you a living witness of Christ and his truth, but you could put your own soul at risk. “Any one who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him” (1 John 3:15). When we hate, we are no better than those who kill. I”
― Abby Johnson, The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories

“When pro-lifers buy into the lie that one child is more valuable and worthy of protection than another because it is further along or happens to be a product of a violent and inexcusable sexual act, then we are condoning the violent slaughter of children and, like the people working in POC labs across the country, we have the blood of innocents on our hands. Abortion”
― Abby Johnson, The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories

“We cannot place more value on a child because of its stage of development in the womb or because of the circumstances under which it was conceived.”
― Abby Johnson, The Walls Are Talking: Former Abortion Clinic Workers Tell Their Stories

“I’d just participated in a death. A death. Not a medical procedure. Not a surgical solution to a life problem. Not the valiant step of a woman exercising her right to make medical choices about her own body. The death of a helpless baby, a baby violently ripped away from the safety of the womb, sucked away to be discarded as biohazard waste.”
― Abby Johnson, Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line

“How is it that I made the wrong choices for what seemed to be all the right reasons?”
― Abby Johnson, Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line

“What do you think would disappoint your parents most? To find out that you’d gotten pregnant, or to learn that you had taken the life of their grandchild?”
― Abby Johnson, Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey across the Life Line

“Adoption is an important option that’s being left out of pro-life and pro-choice arguments today. It should not be left out. It should be prominent in these discussions.”
― Abby Johnson, Life to the Full: True Stories That Reveal the Dignity of Every Human Life

“Why? Because it conveys a story, however brief, of a child’s life. Just one blip of a heartbeat—one glimpse of the body on the screen—and it’s suddenly impossible to avoid an encounter with the truth. One can try to conjure up all of the arguments for why abortion should be legal, and all the reasons why reality must bend to the will, but they lie impotent against the story of that tiny body and the thumping of that heart.”
― Abby Johnson, Life to the Full: True Stories That Reveal the Dignity of Every Human Life