This interview is well worth reading. (HT: DV) I thought I knew all there was to know about Abby Johnson's change of heart from being a director of a Planned Parenthood clinic to becoming a pro-life advocate. I previously blogged about her here, but this interview goes into more detail. In this interview Johnson explains her climb up the Planned Parenthood ladder beginning with volunteering as an "escort" in college to becoming the director and even winning the affiliate's Employee of the Year award in 2008. Excerpt:
I think the mentality, though, that they tried to instill in you is that if you work at Planned Parenthood, you are the victim — that you have all of these outside attacks from these pro-lifers. So that’s what keeps you there, that victim mentality, and it works. . .
She said that in most abortions, the doctor doesn't use ultrasound but in one case he did, and she was called in to assist (an unusual occurrence for her).
My job was to hold the ultrasound probe on the woman’s abdomen during the procedure so he could visualize the uterus during the abortion. What I saw during the procedure was so gruesome to me, and something I had never experienced before, that I just thought, “I’ll never do this again.”
She was asked if she had faith while working at Planned Parenthood. She replied:
I was always trying to rationalize my work and my faith, and I was trying to make it fit.
One thing that I’ve said throughout this whole thing is that there’s no spirituality in abortion because there really can’t be. It’s very hard to justify what you’re doing if you’re a Christian. You try to make it fit, you try to make it work, but in the end it just really doesn’t wash. So that’s why, I think, God was in this the whole time, and he is the one who led me out of there.
Read the whole thing.