Quotes from Abby Johnson

If a woman goes to Planned Parenthood for birth control and discovers in the course of her visit that she has high blood pressure, Planned Parenthood can't help her. She has to be referred to a FQHC for treatment.

Throughout history, women have often been treated as second-class citizens and their voices silenced.

While I am a single-issue voter, I certainly don't live a single-issue existence. Many causes affect my family and me, and I intend to be a voice for those as well.

How pro-lifers are perceived by those who oppose us is important.

I am far from a perfect pro-lifer.

I certainly never thought I would find myself walking into a pro-life office, and I never thought that I would one day be pro-life.

I joined Planned Parenthood because I wanted to help poor women with real health care needs.

I would say I am a mediocre Christian.

Most prochoicers have a line in the sand concerning abortion. There are very few abortion supporters who believe in abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.

An abortion is expensive. Its cost includes pay for the doctor, supporting medical staff, their health benefits packages, and malpractice insurance.

I am not just pro-birth. I believe in supporting a woman during and after pregnancy.

When I say, 'I want women to have access to authentic female healthcare,' I mean that I want women to have access to healthcare that supports their natural femininity. I mean that I want women to have access to healthcare that doesn't include the use of contraception and abortion.

My first March for Life was in 2010, three months after I left my job in the abortion industry as clinic director at a Planned Parenthood in Texas. It was intensely emotional, shocking in many ways, especially the outright love I saw in the faces of people who I once considered enemies.

I had always believed that I would retire with Planned Parenthood.

An important part of my story is that I didn't walk out of Planned Parenthood immediately after witnessing the ultrasound-guided abortion. It is made to appear that way in the film, 'Unplanned,' because they are trying to fit 10 years of my life into an hour-and-a-half-long movie.

Planned Parenthood doesn't care about women's health care needs; it cares about abortion.

I'm happy to talk to liberal media, and we often have good conversations.

No one is beyond the power of conversion, because no one is beyond the power of truth.

I didn't want to be pro-life. I hated the pro-life movement. I had been taught to hate them. I thought they hated me.

I try not to go down the 'what if' road very often. It isn't fruitful and just makes you feel crummy.

I have daughters. They love Disney princesses.

I know from personal experience just how critically important the work of LifeSite is - not just to me but the whole pro-life movement!

Women - and those who love them - need to know the truth about abortion facilities.

When I say, 'I want women to have control over their bodies,' I mean that I want women to know and embrace their fertility.