Best of 2023: Experiencing God’s Mercy After Leaving the Abortion Industry (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
In this best of 2023 broadcast, Abby Johnson recounts what God has done in her life since she originally released her book Unplanned and her healing process since leaving Planned Parenthood. She describes how the Lord helped heal her marriage and gave her a desire for more children. (Part 1 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | As a new wife and mother, Shelly was trying to figure out her life and faith. |
| 0:05.0 | Then she found the help she needed. |
| 0:08.0 | I drink it, like a thirsty person would drink water. |
| 0:11.0 | I just, I loved it. every day I remember hovering around the radio |
| 0:14.6 | and listening and learning so much for focus on the family. I'm Jim Daly |
| 0:19.6 | together we can give families hope donate today at focus on the family.com slash gift |
| 0:26.1 | and your gift will be doubled. I knew standing there holding that ultrasound probe and I had one hand on the |
| 0:48.5 | ultrasound probe and the other hand on this woman's belly and just feeling that there was once life there and now |
| 0:56.8 | there wasn't and knowing that my hand had been a part of that and and just feeling this grief for this woman that I had |
| 1:05.8 | taken part in her lost motherhood and just thinking, you know, what am I doing? How have I done this for so long? You know, |
| 1:17.0 | how have I not seen the reality of this? |
| 1:20.0 | On today's Best Of episode of Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, we're going to revisit |
| 1:26.8 | the topic of abortion and what it means to live out your pro-life convictions. |
| 1:31.6 | Obviously, this is a topic not suitable for younger |
| 1:34.5 | listeners. Now earlier this year we talked with Abby Johnson and she had |
| 1:38.8 | proudly worked at a Planned Parenthood clinic until she experienced a dramatic change of heart. |
| 1:45.0 | Here's the good news. |
| 1:46.0 | Abby left the clinic and reconnected with her childhood faith and today she's a passionate |
| 1:51.8 | pro-life advocate and I so respect Abby for her |
| 1:55.9 | convictions and how the Lord has used her in amazing ways. Abby's story |
| 2:01.0 | resonated with so many of our listeners and viewers and that's why we're sharing it again today. |
| 2:07.0 | And Abby is an author, speaker, and ministry leader, and she's written a book that kind of documents her journey since leaving the abortion |
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