Opinion

By JUSTIN JOHNSON

I don’t have the time or energy to endlessly argue with people who will never change their mind, so I’ll make one final point to hopefully convince those on the fence.

At its heart, the Planned Parenthood debate is about whether or not we should allow abortion in this country. There are side parts of it, like the one that started this debate about the use of fetal tissue for valuable medical research, but that question is at the heart of the issue.

It is simple: preventing abortion via the law or other coercive means is misogynistic.

To prioritize the life of Read More

By LISA SHIN, O.D.

Babies being born alive, only to be butchered for their parts. Harvesting tiny hearts, brains and livers. Fetal organs being transplanted into lab rats for research. Cracking skulls and dismemberment. Horror shows are usually like that: repulsive, disturbing, barbaric and sickening. Except that Planned Parenthood’s horror show is not a movie, but a real nightmare that keeps getting worse.

No one is above the law. The trafficking and sale of aborted baby body parts for profit is illegal and unethical. In fact, it is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years Read More

By KHAL SPENCER

Ms. Wendy M. Hoffman wrote a letter complaining that Mr. Dustin Johnson did not refer to Ms. Jacqueline Krohn, M.D., MPH, using her medical redentials. We are told that the omission is not only disrespectful, but fails to acknowledge Krohn’s knowledge base when discussing Planned Parenthood.

I disagree. Krohn’s July 31 letter was not a thoughtful discussion of medical issues regarding abortion or contraception, or an indication of why the demographics of PP’s locations are allegedly part of a dark conspiracy, or for that matter an honest discussion Read More

By WENDY M. HOFFMAN

Re: Dustin Johnson’s letter about the use of Nazism and his defense of Planned Parenthood. I note that he improperly, perhaps in an attempt to delegitimize Jacqueline Krohn’s work in our community, refers to her as “Ms. Krohn.”

One who is not so lacking in intellectual rigor would recognize the suffixes used with her name, i.e. MD, MPH.

Whether or not one agrees with her, she is properly addressed as Dr. Krohn and acknowledged for her Medical doctorate and Master’s degree in Public Health (the standard definitions of those acronyms).

She is a pediatrician Read More

By TERRY GOLDMAN
Los Alamos

I’m not following Krohn: I thought the point of Planned Parenthood was to prevent abortions by helping to prevent unwanted pregnancies. If some group has a disproportionate rate of abortions, relatively more effort from Planned Parenthood is needed, not less.

Krohn seems to think that Sanger’s concern for minimizing the burdens on a then-poor society translate today into an effort to promote abortions.

However, while now there seems to be an almost universal agreement that abortion is the worst method of birth control, without it being available, the individual Read More

By EDWARD BIRNBAUM

The comparison made between Nazi Germany policies and abortion (click here and here) is seriously flawed and is offensive to anyone who survived the Holocaust, or who has relatives or friends who did not.

The key difference is that no government agency is forcing anyone to obtain an abortion, in contrast to Nazi Germany, where the elected government forcibly relocated people to concentration camps, only to kill them in a variety of imaginative and horrible ways.

You may not like individuals choosing abortion as a means of dealing with their pregnancies, but no one Read More

By DUSTIN JOHNSON

I see little point in writing in my own words what others have said before (link), so I’ll just point people to this article: click here. 

Too long, didn’t read: yes, Margaret Sanger had some views in common with the eugenics movement, but so did a lot of people at that time. That doesn’t deligitimize her other work. The rest of what Ms. Krohn said has been said a million times before by anti-abortion people and is, in short, completely and utterly false.

The statistics do not support her claims, and that quote is being used wildly out of context. Read More