Mary's Touch - Abby Johnson

AUG 16, 2019-1 MIN
Mary's Touch

Mary's Touch - Abby Johnson

AUG 16, 2019-1 MIN

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<div style="caret-color: rgb(64, 63, 66); color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> This week we welcome back a special guest&nbsp;on the Mary's Touch program:</div> <ul style="caret-color: rgb(64, 63, 66); color: #403f42; font-family: Georgia, &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <li>Abby Johnson has always had a fierce determination to help women in need. It was this desire that both led Abby to a career with Planned Parenthood and caused her to flee the organization and become an outspoken advocate for the pro-life movement. During her eight years with Planned Parenthood, Abby quickly rose in the organization's ranks and became a clinic director. She was increasingly disturbed by what she witnessed. Abortion was a product Planned Parenthood was selling, not an unfortunate necessity that they fought to decrease. Still, Abby loved the women that entered her clinic and her fellow workers. Despite a growing unrest within her, she stayed on and strove to serve women in crisis. She soon was saved by Side Walk Angels who hel&nbsp;<table align="right" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-6703140620952249710OneColumnMobile" style="margin-left: 5px; width: 247px;"><tbody> <tr><td align="center" class="m_-6703140620952249710SpacerImageContainer m_-6703140620952249710mobile-hidden" colspan="1" height="1" rowspan="1" style="height: 1px; line-height: 1px;" valign="top" width="5"><img border="0" class="m_-6703140620952249710SpacerImage" height="1" hspace="0" src="https://imgssl.constantcontact.com/letters/images/sys/S.gif" vspace="0" width="5" /></td><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 0px;" width="100%"><div align="center"> </div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> ped Abby get out of where she was working.</li> <li>Today, Abby travels across the globe sharing her story, educating the public on pro-life issues, advocating for the unborn, and reaching out to abortion clinic staff who still work in the industry. She is the founder of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="noreferrer" shape="rect">And Then There Were None</a>, a ministry designed to assist abortion clinic workers out of the industry. To date, this ministry has helped over 150 workers leave the abortion industry.&nbsp;Abby lives in Texas with her husband and five precious children.</li> <li><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="noreferrer" shape="rect">Author of UnPlanned</a>&nbsp;is the story of Abby Johnson's journey from director of a local Planned Parenthood center to advocate for "the other side of the fence." It's harrowing and heart-rending, an up-close-and-personal encounter with the inside workings of an organization made up of many people who truly do want to help women. The journey Johnson makes involves a change of heart that spoke to the path I took from pro-choice to pro-life. I found, within these pages, an experience common to many, one that travels from both one spectrum of belief to another, but also one that finds maturity and hope instead of despair.</li> <li>AND now her book is turned into a movie and in theaters in the Spring&nbsp;<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="noreferrer" shape="rect"></a><a href="https://www.unplannedfilm.com/">https://www.unplannedfilm.com/</a>&nbsp;</li> </ul>