The most talked-about scene in Unplanned is also the goriest. Prompted, it seems, by renewed interest in the story on social media, she recently wrote a piece for the conservative online magazine The Federalist, rebutting, as she put it, “a biased article from a liberal publication.” Here is Blakeslee’s response. In the intervening decade, Johnson never formally responded to the allegations in Blakeslee’s report, which called her account into question. That book has now been made into a feature film, Unplanned, which is currently in theaters and enjoying wider distribution and more impressive ticket sales than is typical for the Christian film industry. Johnson described her conversion on national talk shows and on the conservative Christian lecture circuit and eventually expanded her story into a memoir. Editors’ note: Ten years ago Nate Blakeslee wrote an investigative piece for Texas Monthly about Abby Johnson, the Planned Parenthood clinic director from Bryan who became a celebrity of sorts after dramatically quitting her position and joining the anti-abortion movement.
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