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Posted: 2020-08-26T02:03:47Z | Updated: 2020-08-26T12:16:45Z

Anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson used her five-minute speaking slot on the second night of the Republican National Convention to stigmatize abortion and smear her former employer, Planned Parenthood , the countrys largest provider of reproductive health care.

Johnson, who spent the day under fire for past statements on racial profiling and womens right to vote, worked at Planned Parenthood for eight years before defecting to the anti-abortion movement.

On Tuesday, she described how she experienced a moral crisis while watching the ultrasound-guided abortion of a 13-week-old fetus.

Nothing prepared me for what I saw on the screen an unborn baby fighting back, desperate to move away from the suction, she said on Tuesday night. And Ill never forget what the doctor said next Beam me up, Scotty.

Details of Johnsons oft-repeated conversion story, which was expanded into a book and then made into a 2019 movie, Unplanned , have been contested . Johnson maintains she is telling the truth .

As HuffPost previously covered, Johnsons description of the fetus movements do not align with medical science.

Throughout her speech, she used graphic language to describe abortion, a safe and common procedure. I know what abortion smells like, Johnson said. Did you know abortion even has a smell?

Johnson also accused Planned Parenthood of racism, claiming that its founder, Margaret Sanger , wanted to eradicate minorities, and asserted erroneously that almost 80% of abortion clinics are located in minority communities. According to the Guttmacher Institute, about 6 in 10 abortion providers are located in neighborhoods where more than half of residents are white.