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This story is spreading quickly.

When anybody working in an abortion has a change of heart toward the unborn, it’s exceptional news. When the executive director of a Planned Parenthood quits her job after seeing what abortion does to a living human being, it’s an enormous learning moment.

That is sure what happened with Abby Johnson, who quit her position as head of a local Planned Parenthood chapter, and indeed, now works with pro lifers to help persuade women to make the choice of giving birth.

What happened?

Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure. “I just thought I can’t do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that’s it,” said Jonhson.

She handed in her resignation October 6. Johnson worked as the Bryan Planned Parenthood Director for two years. According to Johnson, the non-profit was struggling under the weight of a tough economy, and changing it’s business model from one that pushed prevention, to one that focused on abortion. “It seemed like maybe that’s not what a lot of people were believing any more because that’s not where the money was. The money wasn’t in family planning, the money wasn’t in prevention, the money was in abortion and so I had a problem with that,” said Johnson.

But what about that claim by abortion activists that nobody’s actually pro-abortion?

Also remember all that taxpayer money that’s going towards Planned Parenthood for “family planning services” but supposedly not for abortion, well what do they say now that a PP director is saying that PP is downplaying family planning and pushing abortions?

Wesley Smith believes they should be investigated.

If Johnson’s charge is true about being told to intentionally push abortion for financial reasons, Planned Parenthood cannot credibly claim to be a dispassionate family planning/women empowering organization.  Rather, it has an agenda that is both ideological and financially motivated.

Easy to see.