Unplanned by Abby Johnson

I have always been against abortion, and anytime I have ever passed a Planned Parenthood clinic, I always feel like I have seen Satan's workplace. So I read "Unplanned" knowing I would be reading a story that would be dear to my heart.

Abby Johnson went to work for Planned Parenthood with a mission: her goal was to REDUCE the number of abortions performed by helping prevent unwanted pregnancies, a goal she thought the organization shared. She soon worked her way up to being the director of one of the more successful offices, the clinic in Bryan, Texas. As finances grew tighter, however, she was instructed to increase abortions, because that was the way the organization made the most money.

Although Abby had worked in a clinic that performed abortions every other Saturday for eight years, she had never actually witnessed one, until one day when the medical team needed help. The doctor working that day did ultrasound abortions. An ultrasound abortion took around fifteen minutes to perform, rather than the usual ten, which was hard to schedule in a clinic that usually did 35 abortions a day.

Abby was asked to hold the probe as the doctor did the abortion. Feeling very uncomfortable, she agreed.

As she looked at the screen, she saw the entire, perfect profile of a baby, a thirteen week pregnancy. "The detail startled me, " Abby writes. "I could clearly see the profile of the head, both arms and legs and even tiny fingers and toes. Perfect."

Abby watched as the doctor inserted a cannula - a strawshaped instrument attached to the end of the suction tube. She watched as the baby on the screen tried to kick it away with it's tiny foot. The doctor jokingly told the nurse, "Beam me up, Scotty!" and the nurse turned on the suction machine. As the doctor twisted the cannula, she watched the baby's tiny body violently twisting with it. Abby writes, "For the briefest moment, it looked as if the baby were being wrung like a dishcloth, twirled and squeezed. And then the little body crumpled and began disappearing into the cannula before my eyes. The last thing I saw was the tiny, perfectly formed backbone sucked into the tube, and then everything was gone. And the uterus was empty. Totally empty."

Not long after, Abby found herself in the Coalition for Life office, an organization she had a love/hate relationship with as they protested at her clinic, sobbing her heart out. She was soon volunteering for them.

Quitting her job at Planned Parenthood brought lawsuits and much media attention. It's exciting to read how God works.

This is a hard to put down book that gives us a look at the inside of the abortion industry. It tells the story of the loving forgiveness of God. I highly recommend that everyone read it!