Support offered to NZ abortion workers

by ROWENA OREJANA
Former abortion clinic director Abby Johnson has called on New Zealanders wanting to leave the abortion industry to get in touch with her through her website.
Ms Johnson promises to do everything she can to help them. “A couple of years ago I started a
ministry to assist people who work inside abortion clinics. The ministry is called ‘And Then There Were None’,” she said.
“We’ve helped abortion doctors. We’ve helped nurses, clinic workers, security guards, anybody who works inside those clinic walls, we help them leave the industry.”

Abby Johnson

Ms Johnson held speaking engagements around New Zealand in the second week of December, sharing her
experiences as a Planned Parenthood clinic director in Texas. Planned Parenthood is the biggest abortion service provider in the United States.
“We always say that nobody grows up wanting to work inside of an abortion clinic. Nobody grows up wanting to do abortions. We think there’s a better life out there for them, and we’ll help them find that,” she said.
Ms Johnson said it took her a week to leave her work when she first realised she could no longer do her job.
Seeing on an ultrasound screen a 13-week-old baby fight for his life made her realise that all she had been told — which she, in turn, told other women going to her clinic — were lies.
“I certainly didn’t expect to see this child fight back, because we have all been told by Planned Parenthood that the foetus doesn’t have any feelings until 28 weeks,” she said. “It’s something
that you can imagine, but never expect to see. The unfortunate part is you see it happening all over the world.”
She said people always expect she would have “run for hills” after seeing that.
“I didn’t want to leave my job. I didn’t want to leave the money I make. I made really good money there. I didn’t really want to leave my friends. I didn’t want to leave that lifestyle,” she said.
“When you are enmeshed in that culture, it’s a part of who you are. It was definitely a part of who I was.”
But in the week that followed, she found it was increasingly untenable to stay in her job. But being identified with Planned Parenthood for eight years, she didn’t know if she could get a job in her small pro-life town.
She met the Coalition for Life, the pro-life group praying daily outside the clinic, and asked for help.
She was averse to going to the group, at first. “I thought, ‘God, you have to give me someone else. There’s no way I could go to them. I mean, c’mon, anybody please,’” she said.
But she felt that was what God was calling her to do. She told the people in the coalition that she couldn’t leave her job until she found another, because “we are dependent upon my income”.
The coalition eventually found a position for her as a physician’s assistant. But God had other plans for her. She is now a fulltime speaker and advocate for the pro-life movement.
Three years ago, she set up her ministry helping people get out of the abortion industry.
“So far, we have 137 people leave the industry, come to us, and receive help through us. We’re not on a huge international scale right now, but I want people to know here in New Zealand if there are clinic workers reading this, that that is available to them as well,” she said.
She promised to do everything possible to help those people get partnered up with Family Life International or other pro-life groups here that could help them leave or find jobs.
She added they would help with financial support while the people were making the transition out of the abortion industry.

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