activist, followed by almost 8 years at a large Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas, where over 20,000 abortions were performed. Working as a counselor and then as actual director of that clinic, Abby says that 10 minutes of participation in an ultrasound-guided abortion shook the foundation of her values and changed the course of her life. She writes in the book, which is powerfully portrayed in the film: “The details startled me. At 13 weeks, you could clearly see the profile of the head, both arms and legs, and even tiny fingers and toes. With my eyes glued to the image of this perfectly formed baby, I watched as a new image emerged on the video screen.” “The cannula, a straw-shaped instrument attached to the end of a suction tube, had been inserted into the uterus and was nearing the baby's side. It looked like an invader on the screen, out of place. Wrong. It just looked wrong.” She goes on to write, and you can see this portrayed on the screen: “My heart sped up. Time slowed. I didn't want to look, but I didn't want to stop looking either.” “At first, the baby didn't seem aware of the cannula. The next moment was the sudden jerk of a tiny foot of the baby as it started kicking, as if trying to get away from the probing invader. As the cannula pressed in, the baby began struggling to turn and twist away.” “And then the doctor's voice broke through, startling me. “Beam me up, Scotty,” telling the assistant to turn on the suction.” The abortion clinic director went on to write: “I had a sudden urge to yell, “Stop,” to shake the woman and say: “Look what is happening to your baby. Wake up. Hurry. Stop.” “But even as I thought those words, I thought of my own hand and saw my own hand holding the probe. I was one of them, performing this act of abortion.” Again, her eyes shot back to the screen, and she writes: “The cannula was already being rotated by the doctor, and now I could see the tiny body violently twisting with it. For the briefest moment, it looked as if the baby was being wrung like a dishcloth, twirled and squeezed. And then the little body crumpled and began disappearing into the cannula before my eyes.” “The last thing I saw was the tiny, perfectly formed backbone sucked into the tube, and then everything was gone.” Abby Johnson writes: “The image of that tiny, dead baby, mangled and sucked away, kept replaying in my mind.” “What was in this woman's womb just a moment ago was alive. It wasn't tissue. It wasn't cells. This was a human baby fighting for life, a battle it lost in the blink of an eye.” She writes in the book: “What I have told people for years as a Planned Parenthood leader, what I believed and taught and defended, is a lie.” Mr. Speaker, someday--someday--future generations of Americans will look back on us and wonder how and why such a rich and seemingly