‘Trust all women’ is a hollow mantra

But they don’t really want us to trust all women. Notice how the media rarely highlight the stories of women who chose life. And if they do, it’s often a part of an attempt to villainize the pro-life movement.

No, the Left doesn’t want us to trust all women. It only wants us to trust the women who agree with its agenda.

I would know. I regularly post on my social media pages about my time at Planned Parenthood and the horrible things I saw and did. I post about my own two abortions. I post about the many common threads shared between the 625 former abortion workers that my ministry, And Then There Were None, has helped free from the industry.

These are stories of women who worked at abortion facilities and the pure negligence, heinous treatment of preborn babies, abuse of patients, and filthy clinic conditions they experienced.

The replies to these stories are almost always the same: Critics say we are lying, that there’s no way our stories are true, that we can’t be trusted and my page should be shut down for posting lies and fake news.

When women who have had abortions come forward and talk about the physical and emotional damage they’ve suffered as a result, they are told their experiences don’t matter. They are ignored, demeaned, and silenced because they’re questioning the leftist narrative that abortion is the absolute best decision for women. They are told their feelings aren’t valid, that their depression, suicidal thoughts, and substance abuse issues that popped up after their abortions aren’t real and aren’t related whatsoever to the procedure.

There are at least two sides to every story. Yet the abortion industry, the media, pro-choice fund groups, nonprofit organizations, and our very government are trying to silence our side. They don’t trust all women, because if they did, they would listen to us, the women who have experienced the dark underbelly of abortion facilities; the women who have had to piece together aborted baby parts in the lab to make sure nothing was left inside the woman; the clinic workers who have been told not to call 911 when a patient was hemorrhaging; the women who have spent time in prison for their roles in ending the lives of babies born after a botched abortion.

The pro-choice movement doesn’t want the public to hear our stories for the same reason it doesn’t want women truly to have a choice. If it did, pro-abortion advocates would be supportive of informed consent, which means telling the mother about all the risks of abortion, both physical and mental, and what happens during the abortion procedure. They would be in favor of distributing public health department reports on clinic infractions, such as unwashed abortion instruments, unclean exam tables, expired medications, and lack of reporting of statutory rape.

There’s a reason they never talk about the ugly reality of the abortion industry and dismiss the likes of Kermit Gosnell, James Pendergraft, and Christopher Saputa as outliers. But they’re lying. All you have to do is look at state health department reports (which can be seen at CheckMyClinic.com) to understand what clinics are really like behind closed doors and the shortcuts they are taking.

But here’s the thing. We won’t stop talking. No matter how uncomfortable our true stories make the people who hear or read them, we will keep talking. No matter how much the “trust all women” camp wants to believe we are lying, we will keep spreading the truth. Women — all women — deserve the truth. And they deserve a heck of a lot better than abortion.

Abby Johnson is a former Planned Parenthood director and the founder of And Then There Were None. She is the author of Unplanned and Fierce Mercy.