Abby Johnson is the former Texas Planned Parenthood clinic director who converted in more ways than one. Her breaking point was participating in an ultrasound-guided abortion, as she describes in her book, Unplanned, and is portrayed in the movie based on her story.

Besides being a wife and mother — and pray-er (she’s now a Catholic) — her greatest contribution to the pro-life movement has got to be And Then There Were None, her ministry to abortion workers, to help them leave the industry. Some of the women I’ve met from the ministries are powerhouses of prayer and love, having suffered so deeply in myriad ways and seen so much misery around them, inflicted by abortion.

But whatever you’ve done, whatever you’ve contributed to, whatever has been done to you, there is hope. There is forgiveness. There is freedom. Thanks be to God, Abby leads women — and men — to that renewal, the Resurrection, even.

I had the honor of being present the night she’s about to describe, moderating a panel after the screening of the new film She Was Stronger, for which And Then There Were None strategically rented the theater next to the flagship Manhattan Planned Parenthood.

Here are a few of Abby’s thoughts on this third anniversary of the end of Roe v. Wade:

The one huge pro-life win that nearly no one is talking about is the closing of Planned Parenthood’s flagship abortion clinic in the heart of New York City. The New York Times, of all places, started reporting on the racism that ultimately founded Planned Parenthood through Margaret Sanger back in 2020. Then came the avalanche of former abortion-clinic workers suing Planned Parenthood for racism in the years following. And just a few months ago, the same paper of record ran a devastating expose about the inner workings of Planned Parenthood and their horrid business practices — all due to former abortion workers speaking out. These truth-tellers are courageously changing the narrative about the abortion industry. You don’t see the constant onslaught of Hollywood actors sporting their pink pins and t-shirts any longer supporting Planned Parenthood. There are still some hard-liners, but the wave has broken, and the foundation of the abortion industry is cracking.

One of the most powerful nights I experienced recently was at our screening of She Was Stronger at the Sheen Center in New York City. The film highlights the conversion stories of three former abortion workers. The Sheen Center literally shares a wall with that flagship Planned Parenthood abortion clinic. That evening was holy (there was even a chapel yards away).

For decades, pro-life activists have prayed for the closure of that abortion facility, including the Sisters of Life. That night, we gathered with former abortion workers, and we prayed with our hands on that shared wall. We shared our stories, we listened, and we remembered the lives lost behind that wall. And now, that very center is closing. That wasn’t just a movie screening: It was a moment of reckoning and a true spiritual earthquake.

That’s the kind of momentum we need to build on as a movement.