{"id":33653,"date":"2025-03-19T20:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/?p=33653"},"modified":"2025-03-26T19:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T19:34:35","slug":"stop-compromising-abby-johnson-calls-out-cowardice-in-the-pro-life-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cincinnatirighttolife.org\/stop-compromising-abby-johnson-calls-out-cowardice-in-the-pro-life-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stop compromising!&#8217;:  Abby Johnson calls out cowardice in the pro-life movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:36px\"><strong>Time to stop playing nice&#8211;Abby Johnson speaks out at Bringing America Back to Life event.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:29px\">John-Henry Weston of LifeSiteNews, interviewed Abby Johnson immediately after her appearance at Bringing America Back to Life in Cleveland, OH on March 8, 2025. He shared that Abby &#8220;rebuked pro-life movement\u2019s failures, called out weak leadership, moral cowardice, compromises that allow abortion to persist, exposed the truth about at-home chemical abortions and demanded that abortion be treated as murder-without exception.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><em><strong>In the following article and episode of The John Henry Westen Show, Abby Johnson discusses several failures of the American pro-life movement, namely compromising on the issue of abortion and being unprepared for the overturning of Roe v. Wade.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>By:  John-Henry Westen, originally published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blogs\/stop-compromising-abby-johnson-calls-out-cowardice-in-the-pro-life-movement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March 13, 2025, Life Site News<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LifeSiteNews<\/a>) \u2014 Joining me on this episode of&nbsp;<em>The John Henry Westen Show&nbsp;<\/em>from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/blogs\/watch-john-henry-westens-speech-at-the-bringing-america-back-to-life-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bringing America Back to Life Convention<\/a>&nbsp;is former Planned Parenthood director turned pro-life activist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abbyj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Abby Johnson<\/a>. We discussed several failures of the American pro-life movement, namely compromising on the issue of abortion and being unprepared for the overturning of&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">I began the episode by asking Johnson to explain a remark she made in her convention speech about her strong admiration for the Canadian pro-life movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-acast wp-block-embed-acast\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Abby Johnson Calls Out Cowards | Stop Compromising!\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/$\/5c98fbd7ddf2c42b5c7484d1\/67d341bec269297b2ef788ae?#?secret=nUhuHd8LlK\" data-secret=\"nUhuHd8LlK\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Johnson emphasized that she appreciates how they have consistently refused to compromise on the murder of the unborn and compared this sentiment with the American pro-life movement, which seems to always compromise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cThe pro-life movement in the United States is always willing and ready to compromise on the issue of the murder of our pre-born. I definitely used to be a person that said, \u2018Win what you can, get what you can, save as many [lives] as you can.\u2019\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cBut I\u2019ve now just really realized over the past few years how terribly inconsistent that is.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Johnson stressed how difficult it is for people to take seriously a movement that rightly claims abortion is murder but then acts like it\u2019s not murder by constantly compromising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cIt would be like groups that want to abolish the death penalty, but they only think half of death penalty cases should be abolished,\u201d she said. \u201cThat would be ridiculous, and they would not get any traction, and no one would take them seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cYet that has been the pro-life movement in the United States for decades,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s always willing to compromise, always willing to say, \u2018Okay, well, you can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/trump-reiterates-support-for-abortion-compromise-to-make-both-sides-happy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">murder babies up until this point<\/a>&nbsp;but not past this point, or in these cases, but not in these cases.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Johnson questioned whether the country is truly better off after the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/breaking-us-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-in-historic-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">overturning of&nbsp;<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em><\/a>, highlighting how easy it is to get an abortion even in states where it is supposedly illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cAbortion is up, late-term abortion is at historically high levels, chemical abortion is available in every single state, legally,\u201d she said. \u201cEvery pro-life group in the state of Texas and Louisiana and Alabama, all these places where abortion is supposedly illegal, will tell you that no abortions are happening, but that\u2019s a blatant lie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u201cWomen are still getting abortions. And I can go online to over 70 websites in the state of Texas and type in my own information or a fake name, fake date of birth, fake last menstrual period,\u201d she added. \u201cI can type in any information I want and tell them \u2018I don\u2019t have any money\u2019 and get abortion pills sent to any address I want to for free. That\u2019s the reality of abortion in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>John-Henry is the co-founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lifesitenews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LifeSiteNews.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to stop playing nice&#8211;Abby Johnson speaks out at Bringing America Back to Life event. John-Henry Weston of LifeSiteNews, interviewed Abby Johnson immediately after her appearance at Bringing America Back to Life in Cleveland, OH on March 8, 2025. 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