By Dave Andrusko

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It just gets more and more public, the very last thing an abortion clinic would want. Planned Parenthood of Bryan-College Station in Texas, has secured a temporary injunction to prevent its former director “from teaming up with a local anti-abortion group to release records from her eight years of work at the family planning clinic,” according to the Eagle, a local newspaper.

But Abby Johnson, who abruptly quit last month after seeing an ultrasound-guided abortion, told WorldNetDaily.com (WMD), "I don't have any confidential documents, so I'm not sharing anything because I don't have anything. I have no patient information. I'd never do anything to compromise patient safety or confidentiality. For them to even make that type of statement is so offensive."

According to the Eagle, “The injunction temporarily prevents her from releasing information until after a hearing scheduled for Nov. 10 in the 85th District Court.” It was signed last Friday by District Judge J.D. Langley.

Johnson’s story has now gone national. "I had never seen an abortion happen on an ultrasound," she explained to ABC News’ Anne-Marie Dorning. "My job during the procedure was to hold the probe on the woman's abdomen. I could see the whole profile of the baby 13 weeks head to foot. I could see the whole side profile. I could see the probe. I could see the baby try to move away from the probe."

As the clinic director, Johnson as said she can’t explain why she was asked to take part in the abortion. "I just thought, 'What am I doing?'" she told Dorning, "And then I thought, 'Never again.'" Johnson quit two weeks later.

"I looked out the window and saw a couple of women praying and I thought, 'That's where I need to go,'" Johnson said. She now works with the Coalition for Life.

However the controversy has extended far past Johnson’s moment of truth which led to her October 6 resignation. Johnson told WND ”the clinic was pushing employees to strive for abortion quotas to boost profits.” Johnson, 29, said, “There are definitely client goals," adding, "We'd have a goal every month for abortion clients and for family planning clients."

Johnson told WND, the clinic “performed surgical abortions every other Saturday, but it began expanding access to abortion to increase earnings.”

She continued, “One of the ways they were able to up the number of patients that they saw was they started doing the RU-486 chemical abortions all throughout the week.”

The economic turndown had hurt the clinic, she said. "Abortion is the most lucrative part of Planned Parenthood's operations," she told WND. "Even though they're two separate corporations, all of the money goes into one pot. With the family planning corporation really suffering, they depend on the abortion corporation to balance their budget, help get them out of the hole and help make income for the company."

(PPFA’s dependence on abortion for a large share of its revenue stream is something TN&V has written about numerous times. PPFA’s revenues for the fiscal year ending 6/30/08 were more than a billion dollars. Though it has claimed that abortion represents only 3% of its services, the truth is, that at going rates, the 305,310 abortions it performed in 2007 would have represented more than a third of its total clinic income.  With $413 as the average cost of a standard first-trimester suction curettage abortion in 2005--and Planned Parenthood clinics advertising and performing more expensive later-term abortions--Planned Parenthood stands to make a lot more off of abortion than it does off selling contraceptives.)

Alluding to the injunction, Johnson told WND, "I'm not sure what they're scared of. When I first got the restraining order, I was so surprised. My initial response was, what do they think I know? What are they feeling guilty about?"

Planned Parenthood, she added, "is an organization that really runs on fear. If somebody crosses them, they are quick to threaten that person.” Johnson told WND, “I've worked for them for a long time and seen them threaten lawsuits multiple times.”

After all this, Johnson insists she is no activist. "I'm not doing this to judge anyone," she said. "My goodness, I have participated in the abortion industry for eight years,” Johnson told Dorning. “I'm just here as a resource and telling my story ... and maybe somebody will be touched by it."

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