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[eyelid]

I think the ABBY JOHNSON HAS SEEEEN THE LIGHT saga is so hilarious, I needed to post it here.

It starts with rejoicing from the pro-life community! Abby Johnson, a Planned Parenthood clinic director, participated in an abortion procedure and it turned her pro-life! She quit her job and joined the Life Coalition in consequence! Hallelujah!!....

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[roseofjuly]

She felt she was being pressured by her supervisor at the regional affiliate to increase the number of abortions her clinic performed, to make up for declining revenues from the clinic’s family planning and women’s health services. “I could tell her mind was racing,” Carney recalled later. “She was giving a litany of reasons why she wanted out, and it was just almost verbatim of what you think someone who wants to leave the abortion industry would say: Her conscience had gotten to her, the abortion industry is about money, abortion is horrific.”

Dude, she played you like the world's tiniest violin. Of course she was able to tell you almost verbatim what you wanted her to say. You guys have been writing that stupid crap all over the place since 1973. She probably got it in her threatening letters and read it on the Internet.

[sweetchild92]

The Silent Scream?

[auntiesiannan]

Someone needs to write slashfic with her and Jill Stanek.

[auntiesiannan]

And then Balloon Boy dad can show up and assfuck them both.

[commanderd]

Have i said recently how much i love your sick mind? :)

[denelian]

hi - i don't mean to pick... but if i don't, some asshole troll will

[eyelid]

oh, I see what you are saying. I was confused by the language used in the Salon Broadsheet. I will correct.

[denelian]

yeah - it was very confusing.
and when i read the Salon, i thought the same thing [the only abortions that month were on Sept 12] but i read the Texas Convert *after* i read the Salon article. if i had read them in the other order, i probably would have just thought it was only on Sept 12.

everything else i said stands though - and i didn't say it before [because i suck] but really, thank you for posting this! it's very important that we [pro-choice people, i mean] pay attention and remember all of the lies and deceit, so that we can fight them. i had lost this particular snafu [i blame school...] so it was good to have it brought back up and discussed.

[roseofjuly]

Man, if it were me, I would totally come forward and press charges against her ass. The thing is, she's being so vague that you can't (she only claims it was a black woman, which is an interesting choice I think) but there's absolutely no reason any sane doctor would call down a clinic director with no formal training to operate a fucking ultrasound.

[evilcresyluna]

You know, the minute I heard this story I thought it was weird, why were they using an ultrasound anyway? I don't think we use it routinely even for our 13-weekers. And even so, you do need training for the ultrasound, you would have seen ultrasounds prior. I think the "I don't like how this company is treating me, and I don't know where else I would go for a job" part is entirely plausible, knowing that anti-choicers would welcome her with open arms, ready to buy into her "story of redemption" no matter how many details are twisted or just plain made up, she went for. 8 years in the "abortion wars" though, that is just tragic she's rallying for them.