Abortion: A pro-choicer converts

The controversy surrounding a Planned Parenthood worker who quit and joined anti-abortion protesters

A Planned Parenthood worker in a conservative Texas town shocked co-workers when she quit her job and changed sides in the battle over abortion. Abby Johnson, 29, said she had a "change of heart" after watching an ultrasound of an abortion, and after her bosses started pushing her clinic to perform more abortions and focus less on distributing contraceptives. Will Johnson's conversion make her the anti-abortion movement's new poster child? (Watch Abby Johnson discuss quitting Planned Parenthood)

Abby Johnson saw the light: Planned Parenthood is "in the mass-production abortion business, plain and simple," says Ed Morrissey in Hot Air. Abby Johnson quit when she realized the truth. Planned Parenthood was probably pushing its offices to perform more abortions because "that’s their core business," and it needs to get more money "flowing into the abortion mills."

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