- Abby Johnson, was a former Planned Parenthood director who became an anti-abortion activist
- Johnson believes many people would oppose abortion if they saw its ‘barbarity’
- She said victim of abortion is often not mentioned because they have never seen the procedure performed
PUBLISHED: 00:09 EDT, 11 July 2022 | UPDATED: 02:06 EDT, 11 July 2022
A former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic director claims she has now turned-pro-life after witnessing the ‘barbarity’ of abortion.
Activist Abby Johnson said that she believes more people would oppose the termination of pregnancies if they saw what was involved.
Speaking on Fox News she suggested how she believed many pro-choice activists have never even seen the procedure being performed.
‘I think that if people really saw abortion for what it is, I think that more people would be against it. I think one of the reasons that abortion continues to escalate in this country, I think one of the reasons that so many people are protesting against the overturning of Roe v. Wade, is because you don’t see the victim of abortion,’ Johnson began. +9View gallery
- Abby Johnson, was a former Planned Parenthood director who became an anti-abortion activist
Johnson appeared on Fox & Friends on Sunday saying how she believes many people would oppose abortion if they saw its ‘barbarity’
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‘You don’t see this child being dismembered in its mother’s womb. You don’t see the body parts stacked on top of each other. I think if people could actually see the barbarity of abortion, if they could see how terrible abortion is, more people would be against it,’ she suggested.
Johnson also said that she believes a serious problem is that many women don’t know that pregnancy centers exist to help them because they’ve mainly just heard of abortion clinics as the primary option.
‘So one of the things I’d really like to see pro-life people doing on social media, in our churches, anywhere that we can… we need to be showcasing the pro-life pregnancy centers in our area. I can tell you that when I had my first crisis pregnancy, I didn’t even know what a pregnancy center was but I knew what an abortion clinic was,’ she told CBN News last month.
‘We need to be doing a better job as the church, as Christians, of really advertising the pro-life resources that are in our communities.’
On Sunday, President Joe Biden said he has asked his administration to consider whether he has authority to declare an abortion-related public health emergency in wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The comments come after Biden on Friday signed an executive order to ease access to services to terminate pregnancies.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on abortion access on Friday, surrounded by Vice President Kamala Harris, Biden, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and Deputy Attorney General Lisa MonacoAbortion rights activists protest in Washington, D.C. in the rain
Biden, a Democrat, has been under pressure from his own party to take action after the landmark decision last month to overturn Roe v. Wade, which upended roughly 50 years of protections for women’s reproductive rights.
Biden also offered a message to people enraged by the Supreme Court’s ruling last month that ended a constitutional right to abortion and who have been demonstrating across the country: ‘Keep protesting. Keep making your point. It’s critically important.’
Thirteen states passed trigger laws to restrict or ban abortion in the event Roe v. Wade was overturned
‘I don’t have the authority to say that we’re going to reinstate Roe v. Wade as the law of the land,’ he said, referring to the Supreme Court’s decision from 1973 that had established a national right to abortion. Biden said Congress would have to codify that right and for that to have a better chance in the future, voters would have to elect more lawmakers who support abortion access.
Biden said his administration is trying to do a ‘lot of things to accommodate the rights of women’ after the ruling, including considering declaring a public health emergency to free up federal resources.
Women across the nation are speaking out and protesting the decision to overturn Roe. Demonstrators are pictured in Los Angeles, California on Saturday, July 9