The former director of planned parenting celebrates the closure of the Houston facilities

EXCLUSIVE: The former director of the Planned Parenthood clinic who became the pro-life activist Abby Johnson, said that the announcement of the organization that two of his facilities in Houston, Texas, would close this fall represent a “symbolic victory” for the pro-life movement.

Johnson, who resigned in 2009, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that she thought that the pro-life movement had won a key victory with the establishment’s closings, which includes a clinic of 78,000 square feet which was once the clinic The largest abortion center In the Western hemisphere before the ban on abortion of Texas.

“I think it’s a victory, I think that more than anything, it certainly takes ground for the pro-life movement,” said Johnson. “Regarding victory in the safeguarding of babies, it is more a symbolic victory in this way, because women no longer enter this building to obtain abortions. Advortments in the state of Texas occur online.”

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast – which manages six clinics in the Houston region and two in Louisiana – will close its prevention park and its southwest centers on September 30, while the other Houston installations will be acquired by the largest affiliate in the organization.

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Pro-life activist, Abby Johnson, said that Planned Parenthood closing two of his facilities in Houston represents a “symbolic victory” for the pro-life movement. (Reuters / Luis Cortes)

Installations in the states led by the GOP with abortion restrictions, including Texaswere forced to stop the procedures following the 2022 Supreme Court decision which canceled Roe V. Wade and made the power to bring the laws concerning abortion to the States.

Johnson, who worked for eight years in a Bryan clinic in Texas, which was led by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, recalled the celebration among his former colleagues when plans for the mega-facility of Houston were revealed, although she resigned from the organization before her opening in 2010.

“I was in the room the day they revealed the plans. I was in the room the day they unveiled the model of this building. Everyone was so excited that we were going to have this 78,000 square feet abortion installation,” said Johnson. “I remember the ability they were going to see, the ability of patients, the excitement to be able to perform 75 abortions every day, six days a week.”

“Thus, the fact that this installation is no longer even an option, even if surgical abortion has been reinstated here in the state of Texas, this installation will no longer be operational,” she continued. “It can no longer be used as an abortion center. It is in itself a victory.”

The company cited the increase in costs, staff shortages and low reimbursement rates as reasons for closing the two Houston installations. In recent years, GOP officials have made repeated attempts to close Planned Parenthood, even after almost all abortions have been prohibited under Texas Law.

Houston closings are involved in the midst of several closures of Planned Parenthood installations in various states, including New York, where the organization sells its only Manhattan Health Center building for $ 39 million.

Johnson, who now heads a pro-life ministry, said mergers already occurred when she worked for Planned Parenthood, including with the facilities for which she worked, and she expects the mergers to continue when more facilities close across the country.

“When I started working for Planned Parenthood, there were almost 100 affiliates. This number has more than half reduced since I left Planned Parenthood. Affiliates merger, clinics close and they lose staff. They have to dismiss the staff due to the closure of clinics and mergers,” she said, adding that “moral is low” and that the work environment is not happy.

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast will close its prevention park and the southwest centers on September 30. (Getty Images)

She said Planned Parenthood wanted to be the “big guy” and essentially close independent abortion suppliers to create a monopoly, which, she said, seems not to occur.

“Many independent providers are also ending. Planned Parenthood installations are also closing at a very fast pace,” she said.

Johnson also said that she believed that the closing of the establishment was “incredibly demoralizing” and probably “humiliating” for Planned Parenthood and the Pro-Choix lobby.

“It was a trophy for Planned Parenthood to manage the greatest Planned in the country,” she said. “And for the greatest parenting of Planned, I think it’s incredibly demoralizing and probably humiliating for them too.”

Addressing the statement of Planned Parenthood that the abortions represent only 3% of its services, Johnson said that this proved to be false since the facilities of the prohibited abortion states had to close.

“Now we are proven because all these installations that do not provide abortions are forced to close,” said Johnson. “Because abortion is an overwhelming part of what they do, so all these clinics that do not make abortions are forced to close.”

She said that she was not shocked to see that the mega-facility closed because she can no longer bring money by making abortions and can now only offer her other services.

“You have a seven-story building and 78,000 square feet which only controls births and MST tests. It is not shocking that it has closed because you have no significant income in the installation. There are no abortions. This is their main source of income,” she said.

Large facilities of certain states led by democrats do not know the same setbacks because they are able to continue to make abortions and to make money because of this, said Johnson.

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The company cited the increase in costs, staff shortages and low reimbursement rates as a basis for the closing of the two installations. (Getty Images)

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“I think that Texas, Louisiana, the southern states, we could have a unique opportunity here because we have no abortion,” she said. “We do not have a legal abortion here in the state and we have no money and federal to flock in these facilities.”

She also noted that places, such as California, allowing access to surgical abortion are completely overwhelmed by patients who travel for the procedure because it is prohibited in the states led by the GOP.

Johnson stressed that despite the victory in Houston, the pro-life movement still has a lot of work to do, pointing data showing that the abortion figures in Texas have remained almost the same since the state prohibits surgical abortions.

“Even if abortion is technically illegal in the state of Texas, women have abortions at the same exact pace as when it was legal,” she said. “These women are online, they receive abortions from online abortion suppliers.”

The abortion pills are “very easy to obtain,” she said.