When Abby Johnson quit her job as director of a Texas Planned Parenthood clinic in 2009, she had no intention of becoming a pro-life activist.

Then Planned Parenthood tried to get a judge to slap a permanent gag order on her. The attempted silencing of Johnson not only failed in court but also spurred her to speak out.

“That was when I found myself telling my story, and things took an unexpected turn for me at that moment,” the 37-year-old mother of seven said in an interview with The New American.

With a story that few novelists would have the chutzpah to concoct — Johnson said she left Planned Parenthood after being informed of a doubling of the clinic’s abortion quota and witnessing an ultrasound-guided abortion — Johnson quickly became one of the most prominent pro-life activists in the country, which brought her to the attention of others who were having a similar change of heart.

“After I had been out of Planned Parenthood for a couple years, I started having other workers, clinic workers, they were reaching out, and they were asking me for help, and how do they leave and is there someone that can help them,” Johnson recalled. “And I was actually shocked to find out that in 40 years of trying to end legalized abortion, the pro-life movement had never thought about an outreach specifically to the abortion clinic worker.”

To rectify the situation, in 2012 Johnson founded And Then There Were None (ATTWN). The Round Rock, Texas-based organization’s mission is “to end abortion from the inside out” by “help[ing] abortion clinic workers leave the abortion industry,” according to its website, abortionworker.com.