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On Aug. 25, 2020, self-described Planned Parenthood director turned pro-life advocate Abby Johnson spoke at the Republican National Convention and repeated a controversial — and disputed anecdote about how she went from being the director of a Planned Parenthood clinic to becoming an anti-abortion activist: Shortly afterwards, social media users began circulating an image purporting to reproduce tweets issued by Johnson some three months earlier, in which she advocated for a return to household voting (i.e., a system under which a single vote is cast for an entire household, rather than each adult in the household voting individually), and declared that if a husband and wife differed politically, the husband's decision should hold sway (in Godly households, at least): Many Snopes readers inquired of us whether this image reproduced genuine tweets posted by Johnson. In fact it did, as is easily verified since the tweets are still visible in the timeline of Johnson's Twitter account:
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