NY Times: “For many people in Louisiana, the allegations against the Delta Clinic of Baton Rouge were a grim confirmation of what they already suspected. For the young lawyer, the case was also an opportunity.
Still in his 20s, Mike Johnson was already a rising star in Louisiana’s anti-abortion movement. His firm’s lawsuit against Delta, filed in late 1998 on behalf of a patient, alleging that an abortion there had left her injured and infected, set off a furor. Aided by Mr. Johnson, a local TV news investigation would lead Louisiana’s Republican governor to declare a public health emergency. It was Mr. Johnson’s first triumph in a grinding two-decade battle against the Delta clinic — and against abortion more broadly — that would become one of the animating crusades of his public life.”