Ex-Planned Parenthood director celebrates closure of Houston facilities

Exclusive: The former director of Planned Parenthood Clinic, who became the Pro-Life activist Abby Johnson, said the announcement of the organization that two of its institutions in Houston, Texas, will be closed this fall in order to present a “symbolic victory” for the Pro-Life movement.

Johnson, who resigned in 2009, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that she believes largest abortion facility In the western hemisphere before Texas abortion ban.

“I think it’s a victory, I think more than anything that is given the reason for the Pro-Life movement,” said Johnson. “As far as a victory is concerned with the rescue of babies, it is more of a symbolic victory in this way because women no longer go to this building to get abortions more. Abortions in the state of Texas happen online.”

Gulf Coast of the planned parenthood, which operates six clinics in the Houston area and two in Louisiana, will close its prevention park and the Southwest Centers on September 30, while the other Houston facilities are acquired by the largest Texan subsidiary of the organization.

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Facilities in GOP-led states with abortion restrictions, including Texaswere forced to cease proceedings after the decision of the Supreme Court of 2022, which Roe V. Wade has returned and the authority returned to the states in relation to abortion.

Johnson, who worked for eight years in a clinic in Bryan, Texas, who was led by the golf coast, remembered the celebration among her former colleagues when the plans for the Houston Mega facility were unveiled, even though they resigned from the organization before it was opened in 2010.

“I was in the room the day they revealed the plans. I was on the day they unveiled the model of this building. Everyone was so excited that we would have this 78,000 square meter abortion system,” said Johnson. “I remember the capacity you can see, the capacity of the patients, the excitement, every day, six days a week to carry out 75 abortions, 75 abortions.”

“The fact that this facility will no longer be an option, even if a surgical abortion has been restored here in the state of Texas, this facility will no longer be in operation,” she continued. “It will no longer be able to be used as an abortion facility. This is a victory in itself.”

The company named increasing costs, lack of personnel and low reimbursement rates as reasons for closing the two institutions in Houston. State GOP officers In recent years, repeated attempts have undertaken to close the planned parenthood, even after almost all abortions have been banned under Texas law.

The closings in Houston are in the middle of several closings of planned parenting facilities in various states, including New York, where the organization sells its only building of the Manhattan Health Center for 39 million US dollars.

Johnson, who is now operating a Pro-Life Ministry, already said that mergers were already taking place when she worked for Planned Parenthood, also with the facility for which she worked, and she expects mergers to continue if more facilities are closed across the country.

“When I started working for Planned Parenthood, there were almost 100 partners. This number has more than halved since I left the planned parenthood. Partners merging, close clinics and they lose the staff. They have to have the staff due to clinic closures and mergers, they said, and added that” morale is low “and the work environment is not satisfied.

She said that Planned Parenthood wanted to be the “big guy” and essentially independent abortion providers to create a monopoly that she said that it would apparently not happen.

“Many of the independent providers also close. Planned Parenthood institutions also close very quickly,” she said.

Johnson also said that the shottering of the facility is “incredibly demoralizing” and probably “humiliating” for the planned parenthood and the pro-Choice lobby.

“It was a trophy for the planned parenthood to operate the largest planned parenthood in the country,” she said. “And for the largest planned parenthood to close, I think that it is incredibly demoralizing and is probably also humiliating for them.”

Johnson dealt with Planned Parenthood’s assertion that abortions only make up 3% of his services, and said that this was proven to be wrong as institutions in states had to close with abortion banks.

“Now we have proven to be correct because all of these facilities that do not offer abortions are forced to switch off,” said Johnson. “Because abortion is an overwhelming part of what you do, all of these clinics that do not do abortions will close.”

She said she was not shocked when she found that the mega leaf shop closes because she can no longer bring money from the implementation of abortions and can now only offer her other services.

“You have a seven-story, 78,000 square meter building that only conducts birth control and std tests. It is not shocking that it has been closed because you have no significant income in the facility. There are no abortions. That is your main source of income,” she said.

Large facilities in some Democrats do not experience the same setbacks because they are able to continue to carry out abortions and therefore incorporate money, said Johnson.

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“I think Texas, Louisiana, the southern states, we could have a unique opportunity here because we have no abortion,” she said. “We have no legal abortion here in the state and we have no state and federal money that flow into these facilities.”

She also noticed that places like California that enable access to surgical abortion prohibited in GOP-led states.

Johnson emphasized that despite the victory in Houston, the Pro-Life movement still has a lot to do, which points out that the abortion numbers in Texas have remained approximately the same since the ban on surgical abortions of the state.

“Even if abortion is technically illegal in the state of Texas, women have abortions at a precise speed as at legal,” she said. “These women go online, they receive abortions from online abdominal providers.”

Abortion pills are “very easy to obtain”, she emphasized.