(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Abby Johnson, a former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic, spoke Sunday on Fox News about the need for pro-life advocates to candidly confront the brutality of abortion.
“I think if people could actually see the barbarity of abortion, if they could see how terrible abortion is, more people would be against it,” she said.
Johnson’s appearance came as political tensions surge over Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn the federal abortion mandate in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health, resulting in backlash that abortion supporters hope will translate into Democratic turnout during the 2022 midterm elections.
The conservative-leaning court’s decision to reverse the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade precedent also has triggered a wave of violent protests and riots, including threats and an assassination attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The Left’s willingness to turn a blind eye to such violence, however, came as no surprise to Johnson, who witnessed it firsthand at the expense of America’s most vulnerable individuals: pre-born infants.
Johnson said that she thought the outrage over the overturning of Roe v Wade stemmed from the Left’s calculated obfuscation of abortion’s true nature.
“You don’t see the victim of abortion,” she said.
“You don’t see this child being dismembered in its mother’s womb,” she continued. “You don’t see the body parts stacked on top of each other.”
Johnson previously entered the national limelight by giving a speech for the 2020 Republican National Convention.
Her account seemed to parallel the 2015 viral video of Dr. Anthony Levatino’s testimony before Congress.
Levatino, a board-certified obstetrician and former abortionist, exposed the nature of abortion in his his testimony about funding Planned Parenthood.
He painstakingly described the step-by-step abortion process of sucking out the protective amniotic fluid, then using a sharp clamp designed for “grasping and crushing tissue,” blindly reaching in and “grasping anything you can,” because “the baby can be in any orientation or position.”
He recounted using the foreceps to systematically dismember the prenatal victim—even though modern science has determined that infants at that age can respond to stimuli and are capable of feeling pain.
“Once you have grasped something inside, squeeze on the clamp to set the jaws and pull hard—really hard,” he said. “You feel something let go and out pops a fully formed leg about 6 inches long.”
In gruesome detail, the former abortionist described stacking arms and legs and counting body parts to ensure none were left behind because they posed an infection risk.
The procedure is complete, according to Levatino, when the abortionist crushes the skull of the baby and the brains run out.
Indeed, he said, “Many times, a little face will come out and stare back at you.”
