Posted on 11/10/2009 4:07:15 PM PST by wagglebee
Bryan, TX (LifeNews.com) -- Planned Parenthood officials have failed in their bid to silence a former abortion center director who quit working for the abortion business after seeing an ultrasound of an abortion. They had pushed for a restraining order on Abby Johnson and a pro-life group that helped her conversion.
Johnson had been the director of the Planned Parenthood center in this southeast Texas city that is home to Texas A&M University.
She turned in her resignation on October 6 after years of a local pro-life group helping her see the problem with abortion. After the ultrasound, she decided to leave.
Planned Parenthood officials hit both Johnson and the Coalition for Life with restraining orders requiring them not to disclose information about the abortions done at its facility.
But, District Judge J.D. Langley issued a ruling today saying Planned Parenthood did not provide sufficient evidence that Johnson breached a confidentiality agreement concerning identity of an abortion practitioner who works at Planned Parenthood.
Judge Langley also ruled that Planned Parenthood provided no evidence to back up its allegations that Johnson took confidential patient records out of Planned Parenthood on the day she resigned.
The judge also denied a Planned Parenthood request to prevent Johnson from seeking any lawsuit until a trial or any other court action had been made.
David Bereit, national director of 40 Days for Life, the national pro-life prayer campaign that began in Johnson's hometown, told LifeNews.com he's delighted by the rulings.
"I am gratified that Planned Parenthood has failed in its misguided effort to silence its former clinic director in Bryan/College Station, Texas, who experienced a spiritual conversion after witnessing an abortion and is now pro-life," he said.
Johnson was very pleased with the court's decision, he said, which opens the door for her to offer more specifics about her work at Planned Parenthood and the reasons she resigned.
The judge also denied a similar request directed at the Coalition for Life, the local pro-life organization that started the 40 Days for Life campaign in Bryan/College Station five years ago.
Since her departure from Planned Parenthood, Johnson's story has received major media attention at a time when abortion has become the central issue in the national debate over health care reform.
"The truth about abortion that Abby witnessed on an ultrasound machine at Planned Parenthood underscores the fact that abortion is not health care, and it should not be funded in any way by the government," said Bereit.
Now Klan Barrenhood wants to keep their murderous practices confidential.
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I heard her interview on Huckabee.
She has a powerful story to tell.
Thank God that a court didn’t cave in to PC or BS or any other excuse from hiding the turth. Now, if only everyone heard her story...
I heard her on the warroom. Brought tears to my eyes.
You can be sure that Planned Barrenhood won’t give up on this.This woman is threatening their revenue stream after all.
bttt
I like it.
I know how you feel. What wasn't mentioned on the show is that this same barbaric act is replayed EVERY 24 SECONDS in the United States.
Now Klan Barrenhood wants to keep their murderous practices confidential.
Don’t you wonder what her medical training might be?
Does she have medical license to use the ultrasound that she talked about with Huckabee??
Why not discuss it? Gosh, get those ultrasounds out on You Tube. Show the world how wonderful these abortionists really are! Imagine the joy on peoples faces when they witness the "crumbling" of the infant while it's being sucked out by a suction tube.
If she could get it on You Tube - the world would be a better place.
The pro-aborts are the first ones to speak out against torturing the murderous Jihadists, but think nothing of dismembering alive the most helpless members of our society. The left is sick, sick, sick!
As if Planned Parenthood cares about licenses to do their evil work. The doctor was determined to get that abortion finished. If the only one available to work the ultrasound was the janitor, he would’ve been recruited.
And now we’ll get stories about how censorship is a good thing and the public doesn’t really need to know everything. :)
I think the pro-lifers should hire an animator to make a clip of what she saw so the world could see it. It should be put up on You Tube. Too many people are being deceived about what abortion is. If they could see a video, animated or not, and they'd get the truth.
Those who have had abortions could ask for forgiveness, because the damage has been done. Those who may have one in the future would change their minds.
Why not? What harm would it do?
I hope she didn’t have to witness a living fetus being cut to pieces. How can anyone ever get over something like that?
Yeah, she did. That's her point. I don't think she'll ever get those images of the baby fighting for it's life out of her head.
OMG
actually she saw it on ultrasound and was transformed in her thinking
it was a powerful story
Wonder how long it will be before the demonrats gear up a “dirty war.”
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