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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:03 PM Aug 2020

Abby Johnson is speaking at the #RNC2020 tonight against reproductive freedom.


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#VOTEPROCHOICE
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Abby Johnson is speaking at the #RNC2020 tonight against reproductive freedom.

She also supports household voting. As in, one vote per household.

When asked what happens when spouses disagree, she said:

“in a Godly household, the husband would get the final say.”
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Abby Johnson is speaking at the #RNC2020 tonight against reproductive freedom. (Original Post) soothsayer Aug 2020 OP
They've not only scraped the bottom of the barrel for speakers, Ohiogal Aug 2020 #1
Abby Johnson Said Cops Would Be 'Smart' to Racially Profile Her Own Son Celerity Aug 2020 #2
That poor child Bettie Aug 2020 #4
Her adoptive son's birth mother must be sick to her stomach right now. StevieM Aug 2020 #5
She's a psycho MustLoveBeagles Aug 2020 #8
Is she speaking for her "head of household" husband? Is she allowed to speak in public and SharonClark Aug 2020 #3
What if the man is a Democrat? MustLoveBeagles Aug 2020 #6
What if it's two husbands? Retrograde Aug 2020 #9
+1 MustLoveBeagles Aug 2020 #10
OMG, what a hypocrite. SharonClark Aug 2020 #7

Ohiogal

(32,047 posts)
1. They've not only scraped the bottom of the barrel for speakers,
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:14 PM
Aug 2020

They’ve dug a hole under the barrel with this one.

Celerity

(43,485 posts)
2. Abby Johnson Said Cops Would Be 'Smart' to Racially Profile Her Own Son
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:20 PM
Aug 2020
"Statistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons," anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson said in a YouTube video earlier this year.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/935me3/an-rnc-speaker-said-cops-would-be-smart-to-racially-profile-her-own-son

One of the Republican National Convention’s top speakers said in a recent video that it would be “smart” for a police officer to racially profile her biracial son, because “statistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons.”

“I recognize that I’m gonna have to have a different conversation with Jude than I do with my brown-haired little Irish, very, very pale-skinned, white sons, as they grow up,” Abby Johnson, a prominent anti-abortion activist, said in a 15-plus-minutes video posted to YouTube in late June, after weeks of nationwide protests against the police killing of George Floyd.

“Right now, Jude is an adorable, perpetually tan-looking little brown boy,” said Johnson, whose husband blogged, in 2015, about adopting their biracial son at his birth. Johnson is white. “But one day, he’s going to grow up and he’s going to be a tall, probably sort of large, intimidating-looking-maybe brown man. And my other boys are probably gonna look like nerdy white guys.”



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Bettie

(16,120 posts)
4. That poor child
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:32 PM
Aug 2020

he's being raised by someone who believes he's "less" than her white sons. She will always treat him like the outsider, the kid who is worth less than his brothers.

StevieM

(10,500 posts)
5. Her adoptive son's birth mother must be sick to her stomach right now.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:35 PM
Aug 2020

It must be breaking her heart to know that the woman she agreed to let raise her son thinks this way.

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
3. Is she speaking for her "head of household" husband? Is she allowed to speak in public and
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:30 PM
Aug 2020

emasculate him that way?

MustLoveBeagles

(11,632 posts)
6. What if the man is a Democrat?
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:37 PM
Aug 2020

Would he still get the final say? This is so stupid. My paternal great grandmother was protesting for the right to vote when my grandpa was a baby. A hundred years later and we're regressing.

Retrograde

(10,151 posts)
9. What if it's two husbands?
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 09:02 PM
Aug 2020

Or a trans man and a cis woman?

And do unmarried children living with their fathers get a vote? So many questions- easier to go with “one person, one vote”

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
7. OMG, what a hypocrite.
Tue Aug 25, 2020, 08:39 PM
Aug 2020

From google...
Personal life. Johnson revealed in January 2011 that she had two abortions herself before the birth of her daughter. She lives in Texas with her husband Doug and seven children.

Doug Johnson, husband of pro-life activist Abby Johnson and stay-at-home dad to their 8 children joins me on this episode of The Dignity of Women to share his side of the Unplanned story.

Unplanned is a 2019 American drama anti-abortion film written and directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman. It is based on the disputed memoir Unplanned by Abby Johnson.

Although raised in a conservative family opposed to abortion, Johnson began volunteering for Planned Parenthood in 2001 after seeing their booth at a volunteer fair at her college.[5]

Identifying as "extremely pro-choice," Johnson worked at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas for eight years, escorting women into the clinic from their cars and eventually working as director of the clinic.

She and her husband converted to Catholicism in 2012.

Johnson runs an anti-abortion ministry, And Then There Were None (ATTWN), which lobbies abortion-clinic workers to leave the industry and which provides money and counseling for those who do.

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