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Takeaways with Kirk Cameron

Abby Johnson: Why I Left My Job at Planned Parenthood | Ep. 19

Takeaways with Kirk Cameron

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Tv & Film

4.8586 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Planned Parenthood Director turned Pro-life Advocate Abby Johnson joins Kirk Cameron to talk about how seeing and helping with an ultrasound abortion made her quit working at Planned Parenthood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Our first guest is Abby Johnson.

0:03.0

Abby's transformational story from Planned Parenthood Leader to Pro Life Champion is documented in the movie and in the book Unplanned.

0:12.0

Abby, thanks so much for joining us.

0:14.0

Of course. Thank you so much for having me on.

0:17.0

The movie about your life has been so inspiring to so many of us.

0:21.4

And for my wife, Chelsea, and me, our first four kids were adopted.

0:25.7

And my wife is herself an adopted child.

0:28.9

And so this subject is so important to me.

0:31.9

For those people who didn't see the movie or read the book,

0:34.7

can you just remind us a little bit?

0:36.2

How did you get your position

0:38.4

in Planned Parenthood as a leader there? And what was your goal? Yeah, you know, I started working

0:45.7

there as a college kid. I grew up in a pro-life home. I grew up in a conservative home,

0:51.8

but, you know, we didn't talk about abortion. We didn't,

0:55.6

I didn't grow up in a home that, you know, was sitting around the dinner table, talking about

1:01.0

the ends and outs of being pro-life or being pro-choice. I think my parents, you know, they had taught

1:06.5

me the biblical pathway to marriage. And so I think they just sort of thought, well, as long as Abby

1:12.3

follows that path, and abortion will never be on the table. And so, you know, we don't need to talk

1:17.2

about something so unpleasant with our little girl. And so, you know, we just didn't. And I went to,

1:23.3

went to college and met a woman with Planned Parenthood and she was trying to recruit college

1:30.0

students and you know I tell people all the time wherever there are vulnerable women so is

1:36.1

Planned Parenthood and there are tens of thousands of vulnerable women on college campuses

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