Abby Johnson’s healing process
by Carder
Healing in public has not been easy. It has not been ideal. But, in the end, it has been worth it. Thank you for being on this journey with me, even when it wasn’t pretty. Thank you for loving me in spite of my past sins. Thank you for embracing my ministry that reaches out to others who need healing. Thank you for looking past the victory of an abortion clinic worker who switched sides and just seeing ME… a broken sinner in need of grace, mercy and compassion.
You will never know how much your prayers, your kind words and your hugs have healed my heart.
~ Former Planned Parenthood employee-turned-pro-life activist Abby Johnson describing her journey of healing from her experience in the abortion industry, Epic Pew, January 15
Jan.19, 2015 6:00 am |
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I have never met this woman but my pastor did. He said that when he questioned her about the assembly of baby parts she was very cold and replied ” That didn’t bother me.” He engaged her in conversation for a while and his final verdict was this…” I found her to be very cold and unfeeling.” This pastor goes all over the USA and to universities ( college campuses)….I really hope she finds healing. Just keep in mind I am stating one persons opinion.
Most of us are just a degree or two away from the celebrity pro-life leaders.
Abby is radically open and honest about herself. She was a hard, cold abortinista…. and she admits as much in her autobiographical conversion story, UnPlanned. And she is still not fully healed from that dead-hearted condition that afflicts abortion industry workers, as she admits in today’s quote.
She thanks us for being gracious about accepting her as she is, and for welcoming her after all she has done.
“That didn’t bother me.”
I’m sure it didn’t. Abby’s stating that something didn’t bother her at the time doesn’t mean it doesn’t devastate her now.
Abby’s full article at Epic Pew is worth reading.
I fully support her ministry. I think it is a wonderful ministry and she is the perfect person to lead it! God bless her in her endeavors. I think she ought to stick to her ministry and stop wagging her finger at other pro-life ministries who might have a different approach but also see great results.
I met Abby a few years ago some time after she started her public speaking about her conversion to being pro-life. She was extremely warm, kind, and sociable with me. I expect asking her about body part assemblage brings back horrible memories and she goes “cold” to deal with the emotional onslaught. I doubt it’s easy for her to face her past.
I agree perhaps Abby may have retained bad images….he’d met her back in 2009 so time has passed. I’m glad that she and so many post abortive women can find healing with her and her ministry.
I read Abby’s book, unPlanned, and loved it. I was impressed with her unflinching honesty and transparency about her past, very rare these days. Her comment above strikes me the same way. God bless her and her ministry!
I just love Abby Johnson! Her ministry is moving hearts, and her life is a testament to her commitment. Beautiful!
Heather,
Abby’s reaction to your pastor has no bearing on her repentance or not. I can talk about my time in the abortion industry like it’s nothing. It doesn’t mean I dont think abortion is wrong. But you put body parts together long enough ur kinda like oh well, no big deal. You get over it. I think in the religious community everyone is expecting a Jim Baker or Jimmy Swaggart moment where abortion workers have nervous breakdowns on live tv. It doesn’t work that way. You have to shut a part of yourself down to do what you do in an abortion clinic. It doesn’t mean we cant have compassion or love again. It just means we sound really heartless. Hope this helps.
hi Lola I totally understand… were you here when I believe an abortionist was joking as he found it amusing tossing a refrigerated fetal head and put it in a rubber glove. He was laughing and tossing it around like a baseball. No doubt in my mind that you must become numb to it when you see it every day! maybe he was on drugs or just completely devoid of emotion? Also my pastor can be a bit abrasive so it could very well have been a personality clash. As I’ve stated I have just written one person’s opinion. Anyway I’m elated when someone leaves the industry. Read an awesome testimony of former abortionist McArthur Hill. He kept getting a nagging feeling about a verse in Deuteronomy… Cursed is the man who taketh reward to kill an innocent person. He admitted ” I was just s paid assassin. He put down his killing tools and I believe he is a very top notch obgyn now. As long as you have breath you have hope!
Haven’t heard of McArthur Hill. I’ll look him up. :)
hi Claire it’s worth it.