# Unplanned

## Metadata
- Author: [[Abby Johnson and Cindy Lambert]]
- Full Title: Unplanned
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- Never trust a decision you don’t want your mother to know about. ([Location 406](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=406))
- When I’m asked today what someone might have said to get me to change my mind about having either abortion, I tell them it would be this: “What do you think would disappoint your parents most? To find out that you’d gotten pregnant, or to learn that you had taken the life of their grandchild?” ([Location 755](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=755))
- Consider this statistic from the Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood: nearly two-thirds of women who have abortions identify themselves as Christian.4 I was one among many. ([Location 767](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=767))
- Logic, however, seldom partners with depression. ([Location 1122](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=1122))
- “So you’re asking God to show His will by stopping something you’ve already set in motion?” ([Location 1171](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=1171))
- I’ve since owned up to the fact that if I had truly been seeking God’s will, I would have been reading the Bible and spending time in concentrated prayer, listening for His wisdom. I would have been seeking the counsel of spiritually mature believers rather than hiding my livelihood from them. Instead, I made a childish bargain. In so doing, I thought I won. I accepted the job and cheerfully celebrated that God had blessed my career move. In reality, I lost. ([Location 1177](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=1177))
- The truth is, you just cited two instances of injustice—the slaves and the Jews—that could only exist because a whole segment of our population was dehumanized. Society’s acceptance of that is what allowed injustice to continue. And that’s exactly what Planned Parenthood does to the unborn.” ([Location 1232](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=1232))
- “Most merciful God, we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed,” we would pray, followed by a moment of silence. There was only one problem. Every week, when we came to that part of the service, I felt a battle within. I found myself wanting to confess my part in abortion, yet I also argued against it. ([Location 1428](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=1428))
- Houston had been pretty well devastated by Ike. There had been serious flooding and lots of broken windows and damaged roofs. Power had been out in some areas of Houston for a full month after the hurricane, and grocery store shelves had been empty for weeks—not just because people immediately bought up anything the stores were able to stock, but also because they weren’t able to get trucks in with food. ([Location 1535](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=1535))
- Something’s got to be wrong here. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Our goal at Planned Parenthood is to decrease the number of abortions by decreasing the number of unwanted pregnancies. That means family planning services—birth control. That is our stated goal. So why am I being asked, according to this budget, to increase my abortion revenue and thus my abortion client count? ([Location 1627](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=1627))
- I came away from that meeting with the clear and distinct understanding that I was to get my priorities straight, that abortion was where my priorities needed to be because that was where the revenue was. ([Location 1630](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=1630))
- Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid. Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you and worthily magnify your Name, through Christ our Lord. ([Location 1810](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=1810))
- When the first church bluntly and somewhat awkwardly told me I could not become a member, the church lost any opportunity to influence my outlook. I wish they had offered to dialogue with me about why they were so committed to their pro-life position and why they found my work at the clinic such an obstacle to my becoming a member. Or at the very least, I wish they would have expressed care for me apart from my pro-choice position. ([Location 2913](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=2913))
- Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; that we may delight in your will, and walk in your ways, to the glory of your Name. Amen.16 ([Location 2929](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=2929))
- Those people modeled for me something far deeper, far stronger than situational friendship: they loved and accepted me even when I was (or am) doing something they found morally objectionable. They didn’t just talk about love—they put flesh on that concept. ([Location 2996](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004GHNKQY&location=2996))