April 9, 2025

Liferight of Watertown will host a presentation by pro-life speaker, author and charity CEO Abby Johnson at Jefferson Community College Auditorium on April 14.

The event begins at 6 p.m.

According to her biography, Johnson went to work for Planned Parenthood believing she would help women.

After working her way up from volunteer to director of one of their facilities and even winning Planned Parenthood’s Employee of the Year award, Johnson had a change of heart after witnessing an abortion in 2009.

Johnson said it became clear at that moment that abortion did not provide the freedom she had promised so many women in those counseling rooms and that abortion causes only harm, destruction and devastation.

Upon that realization, Johnson left her Job In the abortion Industry and has been sharing her experiences ever since, her biography says.

Johnson, working with author Cindy Lambert, chronicled her story in the book, “Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader’s Eye-Opening Journey Across the Life Line,” which was later adapted into a film of the = same name. She has written several other books, Including, “The Walls Are Talking” and “Fierce Mercy.”

Johnson is the CEO of two pro-life non-profits, And Then There Were None and LoveLine.

She also hosts her own podcast, Politely Rude.

One of Abby’s ministries, Loveline, helps thousands of women each year via a national support line for women who are pregnant and families raising Infants.

According to the LoveLine website, the organization’s support line connects women and families in need with resources and case management. When resources aren’t available, LoveLine provides those resources.

“Our team is ready to equip you for motherhood with crisis intervention, career support, counseling with licensed therapists, financial coaching, and so much more,” the website says. “We are committed to working through your case plan with you as long as you need us. We hope you’ll feel confident in raising strong children. Until you’re ready to graduate from LoveLine programs, we are here to reclaim motherhood with you.”

And Then There Were None seeks to work to end abortions by reaching out to providers.

“And Then There Were None (ATTWN) is a registered nonprofit organization that exists to help people in the abortion industry leave their jobs and rediscover the peace and joy they’ve been missing,” the organization’s website says. “If you’re a current abortion worker reading this, please know that we believe that a clinic worker’s life is valuable, too. As former abortion industry workers, we have a different perspective than others may have – we’ve been in your shoes. And we used those shoes to walk away! ATTWN seeks to end abortion from the inside out. We believe that the end of abortion starts with abortion clinic workers leaving their jobs and finding healing from their past work.”

A mother of eight children, Johnson says her greatest blessing is her vocation as a wife and mother. Johnson, along with her husband and family, reside in Texas.

There is no charge to attend the local presentation, but Johnson will be collecting donations for her LoveLine ministry.