{"id":6597,"date":"2011-08-28T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T19:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=6597"},"modified":"2011-08-26T14:09:40","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T18:09:40","slug":"planned-parenthood-director-resigns-switches-sides-in-abortion-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/08\/planned-parenthood-director-resigns-switches-sides-in-abortion-battle","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood director resigns, switches sides in abortion battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ramona Trevino has left her job as a manager at a Planned Parenthood facility in Dallas&#8221; &#8212; and is now speaking on behalf of the pro-life,&#8221; reports Thaddeus Baklinski for LifeSiteNews.<\/p>\n<p>Her story has\u00a0&#8220;clear echoes of the conversion of former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson,&#8221; noted Baklinski. Four months ago, Johnson, who was\u00a0a manager at a Planned Parenthood facility in Sherman, Texas, resigned from her position with Planned Parenthood and is now speaking out about her abrupt about-face.<\/p>\n<p>Trevino\u00a0says that although the particular Planned Parenthood where she worked did not perform surgical abortions, she was struggling with her conscience on contraception, abortion and her role in it all.<\/p>\n<p>Just like Johnson, Trevino credits\u00a0a pro-life\u00a0campaign outside her Planned Parenthood facility with helping her move toward &#8220;a pro-life way of thinking,&#8221; writes Baklinski. She says she went from believing she was providing a service to women in need, to realizing that Planned Parenthood \u201ctreated women like cattle and how they only cared about making money\u201d \u2013 a realization she says was \u201clong overdue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Planned Parenthood closed its Sherman clinic where Ramona was manager on August 23, after Texas Governor Rick Perry signed into law a bill that stripped the organization of its funding, and prohibited the state government from contracting with any organization that provides abortions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/the-new-abby-johnson-planned-parenthood-manager-quits-and-converts-to-pro-l\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE to read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ramona Trevino has left her job as a manager at a Planned Parenthood facility in Dallas&#8221; &#8212; and is now speaking on behalf of the pro-life,&#8221; reports Thaddeus Baklinski for LifeSiteNews. Her story has\u00a0&#8220;clear echoes of the conversion of former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson,&#8221; noted Baklinski. 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