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'I Think There's...Fear': Abby Johnson Responds to Washington Post Editorial's Misrepresentation of Abortion Numbers

'I Think There's...Fear': Abby Johnson Responds to Washington Post Editorial's Misrepresentation of Abortion Numbers Read Transcript


- Well, I think the last I checked,

we're over 17 millionat the box office and,

which is awesome becausethe critics thought

we would make like $40.

So, yeah.

We're excited.

And we're working to

get the film out on DVDas quickly as possible.

We're probably lookingat about three months

for that to happen, but they're trying

to expedite that as quickly as possible

because we know that churchesand different youth groups

and different organizationsare really wanting

to be able to show this film

and so, DVD would be agreat way to do that.

I think it's about timing right now.

You know, we've seen alot of pro-life movies

sort of come and go,

and people have said,what's the difference here

with Unplanned and I reallythink it's about timing.

You know, we look at what's happening

just in these crazy lawsthat are being passed

all across the country.

Late-term abortions, infanticide laws

and you know, I think thatpeople are just ready.

I think they are ready to see the truth.

I think people were seeking truth

on the issue of abortionand this film, hopefully,

will be a really powerfultool that people can use

moving forward to showthe truth of abortion

and also to show the powerful,redemptive nature of Christ.

Abortion is painful (laughs).

Even people who are pro-choice will say,

people who have hadabortions that are pro-choice

will say yeah, abortion hurts.

It's physically painful.

I think it's really disingenuous

for this people in the abortion community

to essentially call womenliars who are speaking out,

not only the physical pain of abortion

but also there is, for many women,

significant emotional pain

and here they are, anorganization that says

that they are there to trustwomen and listen to women,

yet when women start speaking out

about their abortion experiences,they want us to shut up

and you know, you can't have it both ways.

You have to listen to both sides

if you truly want to believewomen and trust women

and you know, they, yeah,

they have, surprisinglyit's been abortion doctors

who have been pushing back on that scene

because they have to.

They have to perpetuate the lie

that the unborn childdoesn't feel anything,

that there's no sensory development there,

that there's no humanity there

in the unborn,

but what we know is that my account

is not some sort of isolated account.

In 1984, many, many years ago,

Dr. Bernard Nathanson cameout with The Silent Scream,

a former abortionist,

and it showed the same sortof thing on a real abortion.

It wasn't a CGI abortionlike, that's in Unplanned.

It was a real abortion taking place,

showed the same sort ofthing that my film showed

and this was in 1984.

I mean, this knowledge hasbeen around for a long time,

the proof that the unborn feel pain,

the proof that they can feel

what's actually happeningto them in an abortion

that they can sense that sort of danger

has been around for years.

So you know, the fact thatthey're in denial about that

just shows that they'rereally out of touch

with scientific reality.

We have proved over and over again

through Planned Parenthood's own budget,

through former abortion clinic workers

who have come through andthere were nuns speaking out.

We've proved it inblack and white on paper

that they do have abortion quotas,

that abortion is a productthat they're selling

so they can say that all they want

but I mean, the proof isthere, the evidence is there.

They're receiving awards.

That has been proven.

We have come out with thephysical evidence of an award

that was given to a clinic for exceeding

their abortion quota,

so the proof is there,the evidence is there.

They need to believewhatever they need to believe

to keep their agenda going,

but the proof is already out there.

I think there is a littlebit of fear, actually,

within the pro-choice community.

I mean, there was a recent Marist Poll

that came out a couple months ago

that showed that in one month,

in that one month time period,

there was a 14% jump inDemocrats who were pro-life,

so before the wholelate-term abortion debate

in New York had taken place,

20% of Democrats identified as pro-life.

One month later, a pollshowed that 34% of Democrats

identified as pro-life.

I think that's scary.

They're losing their constituency.

They are losing their supporters.

People are researching on their own.

They're looking at what abortion really is

and I think that they are losing ground,

they're losing momentum andparticularly among young people,

particularly among millennials,

there have been studiesthat have shown that

when millennials are presentedwith the truth of abortion,

they're more likely to change their mind

and become pro-choice,

and that has got to be scary

for the pro-choice movement right now.

But we look at the millennialgeneration in particular.

The first picture thatthey have of themselves

is of them in the womb.

And so it's really hard

for them to be convinced

that even at that time,when they're looking

at their own ultrasound picture

that they weren't a human being,

that they weren't a baby.

And science and technology,medical advancements,

I mean it's just,

it's coming down more andmore on the side of life

and that has to be very scary

for the pro-choice movement at this point.

These digoxin-infused abortions

have been going on foryears in many states

and you know, the sad reality is that

if they even make it to the heart,

a lot of less-skilled abortion doctors,

they don't have the ability to get

the injection directly into the heart

so they just inject itinto the amniotic fluid,

the baby ingests that overdose of digoxin

and many times, the mothercan actually feel her child

fighting for its life asit's overdosing in her womb.

This is not new.

This has been happening

but the fact that they're willing

to actually put it onpaper and put it into law

just really shows the depravity

of the legislators there.

It was a good article.

It was surprising it when I saw.

But yeah, I read it and

yeah, I think they're right on.

I think that some ofthe most powerful voices

in this movement are peoplewho have been affected

by abortion personally,

so you know, I do believethat we will see a time

where abortion is unthinkable

and I don't think it's gonna,

it's not gonna come fromlegislative victories.

I don't believe it's gonnacome from scientific evidence.

I think it's gonna come from stories

because that's really what

pricks at the conscience and emotions

and it's gonna come from stories

of women who've had abortionswho regret that decision.

It's gonna come from people who worked

in the abortion clinics.

There's nobody to tell you howthe abortion industry works

than someone who actually worked there

and saw it first hand andI think it's important

that we're making allies in allof these pockets that we can

because everybody's voice is very powerful

when it comes to defending a life.

Well, it's still in theaters

so four weeks in, still in theaters,

so if you haven't seen it,

go to unplannedtickets.com,

find a local theaterthat's still playing it,

go see it, take your friends,

take your pro-choicefriends, take your kids.

It's rated R but it's onlyrated R because it's real

and a lot of people have saidit's rated R for recommended

so you teenagers need to see this film.

We're excited aboutstreaming and DVD release.

There's a lot of women whohave been affected by abortion

that were, they were scaredto go see it in the theater.

They were scared of whattheir response might be.

I feel like we're gonnacontinue to reach women

who are in need of healing,

especially after the DVD comesout and they can watch it

in the privacy of their own home,

watch it with a friend, you know, spouse,

somebody that can sortof just hold their hand

while they're watching the film and so,

we just want people to understand

that this is a very powerful tool

that wasn't, it's not aboutbe, it's really about God.

It's His story and how He can redeem

literally anything from our past.

He can take anything from our past

and use it for His glory

and so I hope that this brings about

even more testimonies from women

and certainly we're seeingabortion clinic workers

leaving their jobs at a ratethat we have never seen before

and so, we're veryencouraged by that as well.

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