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If you didn’t know who Abby Johnson was until this week, hi, welcome. Her melodramatic story about having a change of heart after watching an ultrasound-assisted abortion at 13 weeks is 100% fake. How do we know?
Because thanks to people like Abby Johnson, Texas has a law that requires abortion providers to file a report for Every. Single. Procedure. They perform. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwe59n/abortion-reporting-laws-lawmakers-want-the-state-to-know-everything-about-your-abortion
We know that on the day Johnson says her conversion happened, there were no ultrasound-assisted abortions at the clinic where she worked. No patients who were 13 weeks. This has all been reported on here & elsewhere https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-convert/
Johnson explains this away by claiming that record keeping at the clinic was poor. If that were true the clinic would have been shut down. Failure to comply with reporting procedures in TX would result in suspension or loss of license for the facility.
It’s a story that is verifiably false. There are no “two sides” here and nobody should be repeating Johnsons’s claims as though they have any credibility, especially not journalists
It’s also not a coincidence that she claims the woman having the abortion was Black! Anti-abortion extremists love to claim that abortion is some kind of racist genocide even as they back policies that interfere with the reproductive freedom of Black people and other POC
Another verifiable fact: Abby Johnson is racist https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/abby-johnson-said-police-should-profile-her-brown-son.html
Well, I wasn’t going to make this announcement until tomorrow, but since everybody’s here, check out my SoundCloud aka my new podcast about abortion! https://twitter.com/accesspod/status/1298713896665010182?s=21 https://twitter.com/accesspod/status/1298713896665010182
@ACCESSpod is going to be a lot like this thread: we’ll bust myths, give context to headlines, and have alllll the conversations about abortion. Please listen!
It's here, y'all! https://twitter.com/ACCESSpod/status/1301507091090284544?s=20
