Politically Unstable: From Planned Parenthood Director to pro-life activist

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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

OPINION:

Abby Johnson used to work at Planned Parenthood. Now she has dedicated her life to eradicating abortion and exposing the industry.

Washington Times Commentary Editor Kelly Sadler sits down with Ms. Johnson, CEO and founder of And Then There Were None and ProLove Ministries, to discuss the shocking truths of the abortion industry and the state of American culture, especially in regards to the family.

[SADLER] I am so intrigued by your personal story. You were once employed by Planned Parenthood and now you’re a pro-life advocate. So how did that happen?

[JOHNSON] There were quite a few things that happened during my time at Planned Parenthood that caused sort of this shift in my belief. You know, one of the things that took place was we were building, at the time, the largest abortion facility in the Western Hemisphere. It was a 78,000 square foot facility, seven stories tall. We were going to be performing abortions through the six month of pregnancy. And for me, that was a problem. Because I got into the abortion business thinking, we are helping women who are thinking, oh my gosh, I don’t want to have a baby because I have too many other children and I can’t take care of this child, or because I want to continue my education, or for a plethora of other reasons. But my line in the sand, morally, and I realize how that sounds now, but my line in the sand, morally, at that time was viability. And here we were about to open a facility that was going to be crossing that viability line. And that was becoming increasingly problematic for me.

So that was one of the first things that really caused me to say, is this a place where I want to continue employment? Because I had thought that I was going to spend the rest of my career with Planned Parenthood. That’s where I thought, I’m going to retire and live a happy life with Planned Parenthood. So that was kind of the first break. I got involved with Planned Parenthood fully believing that our goal at Planned Parenthood was to reduce the number of abortions. When I got involved with Planned Parenthood, that was the stated goal. And now I had been there for, you know, seven to eight years. And I started to see that maybe that stated goal wasn’t lining up with exactly what I was seeing in reality. And we were being told that not only did we have abortion quotas, a certain number of abortions that we had to sell to women, but now we were being told that we had to double that abortion quota. And we were told that we were to go into minority communities, that we were to literally put flyers up in minority communities, targeting those communities to get them into our facilities to abort, primarily black babies, black and Hispanic babies.

That also caused sort of a check in my gut. I did not prefer that, that we were doing that. And the whole quota thing, I had a problem with that. But ultimately, I ended up leaving after watching a live ultrasound-guided abortion. And I know for a lot of people, they think you were there for eight years. How would you not have seen that before? But ultrasound guidance during an actual abortion is rare because abortions are done without the use of an ultrasound during the actual abortion. So we used an ultrasound to gestationally date the pregnancy so that we would know how much to charge her for an abortion. But then the ultrasound was rolled away and abortions are done in secret. They are done where the doctor does not actually see the fetus as he is aborting the fetus. He doesn’t see inside of the woman’s womb as he is performing surgery on that part of the woman’s body. And I had never thought about that before. The visiting physician that was there that day was telling me that his own private practice, this is the typical way that he performed abortions because it was safe for the woman. It was safer for for the woman if you could see that part of the body where he was performing surgery and that made total sense to me I could not think of any other surgical procedure, and even today now 16 years removed, I cannot think of any other surgical procedure that is done where the physician cannot actually see the part of the body where he is is performing surgery.

[SADLER] The part that that struck me as new information is the fact that you priced abortions differently at Planned Parenthood. So if you were in your first, you know, first trimester, it was cheaper than if you were at six months?

[JOHNSON] Oh, not even that. If you were, if you were nine weeks and six days, it was cheaper than if you were at 10 weeks. So, it’s even within the first trimester, it is different pricing. There’s no medical reason for that. It’s not a different procedure. It’s the exact same procedure. The reason that they do that though is because they want women coming in sooner. So they want women coming in as soon as they find out they are pregnant. So they don’t want women to wait because they know time is an enemy to the abortion clinic, right? Because the longer a woman waits into her pregnancy, the more realistic it is that she will end up choosing life for her child.