By Dave Andrusko

It's taken a day or two since the story went national, but the pro-abortion blogging network is now gearing up its mud machine to cast aspersions on Abby Johnson. As you remember from a TN&V last week and one yesterday, Johnson quit as director of PPFA's Bryan-College Station in Texas.

Abby Johnson

In return the clinic 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. Johnson flatly denied that she had any records or any intention of sharing them.

Suggestions that she does keep dribbling out, however, usually in tandem with the sarcastic comments that it can't be that "simple"--Johnson could not have been so moved by watching an ultrasound guided abortion that she said, I'm outta here.

Well, Johnson appeared on CBN Tuesday, and you can see what she had to say at http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2009/11/06/from-planned-parenthood-to-pro-life.aspx. Let me just offer a couple of quotes, and, in addition to watching her respond on camera, you can make up your own mind.

"I saw that baby trying to get away from the probe that the doctor was using," Johnson said. "I just wanted to make it stop. I saw the baby, I could see it twisting and I just saw it crumble, and I was thinking, I will never do this again."
It's really that difficult to believe that, provided you don't have a heart of stone, this might be transformational

According to the CBN interviewer, Wendy Griffith, another reason Johnson "felt compelled" to leave Planned Parenthood, was because she was "being pressured to bring in more and more women who wanted to get abortions, because abortions are the clinic's moneymaker."

Johnson told Griffith that the reason she got involved with Planned Parenthood was to prevent unintended pregnancies. "And now all of a sudden, they're saying, ah, forget about that, we need money, so we need to up our abortion numbers."

Griffith asked Johnson, a life-long church-goer, what took so long. (She worked at Planned Parenthood for eight years.) Her answer spoke volumes.

"I think that my heart wasn't ready," she said. "And I think that I did a lot of rationalizations. I just kept buying into it. I just kept going deeper and deeper justifying it."

Now, working with the pro-life group, Coalition for Life, Johnson told Griffith, "for the first time in so many years, I really felt what true peace was. And I felt like this huge burden had been lifted off of me."

The interview concludes with Johnson saying something as profound as it was simple: "Abortion is taking a life."

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