AL creates firestorm but real target is Roe

Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood clinic director turned pro-life advocate, was interviewed Thursday on American Family Radio. She offered the following comments about the Alabama abortion ban law:

Johnson

"I was thrilled to find out that the bill in Alabama was passed with no exceptions for rape and incest. Rape and incest, of course, is a terrible trauma for a woman to go through – we don't want to revictimize her by putting her through an abortion procedure. The reality is that … the overwhelming majority of women who conceive in rape decide to parent their children or place [them] for adoption. So we want to make sure that these women are getting the emotional help [and] the resource help that they need. The answer is not to revictimize them [or] traumatize them further by putting them through an abortion procedure.

"… I'm a person who actually adopted a child who was conceived in rape, and so I was just really excited to finally see a state that was willing to stand up for children like mine and to not throw them under the bus. Because the bottom line is this: either it's a baby all of the time or it's a baby none of the time – and when we start making decisions [by rationalizing that] This baby is disposable because of how it was conceived [or] This baby is disposable because of X, Y, and Z – we start playing into the hand of eugenics. And that's a very dangerous road for us to go down.

"God does not make mistakes when he creates life – and we as pro-lifers should stand up and boldly proclaim that all life is valuable from the moment of conception and should be protected."