As a male who never utilized the services of Planned Parenthood, I lack the temerity to challenge Esther Confino’s experiences with her “health care providers.” (News Times: 9/4/2015)  

So, I offer instead the contradictory testimony of other women who have utilized the services of Planned Parenthood.

I recall a middle-aged woman physically beating up on her husband and screaming after the loss of one child: “I could have had another child if it weren’t for you.”

And then there was the woman who tearfully chastised me, a picketer, outside an abortion mill in Central Islip:  “Where were you when I had my abortion?”

And, finally, I offer the witness of Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood Clinic Director:  “Then, in 2009, I witnessed an ultrasound — guided abortion where the innocent baby tried and failed to escape the abortionist’s suction tube. That baby — a boy — was fighting for his life…  I quit my job at Planned Parenthood.  And I quit the abortion industry  forever.”

James Gough

New Hyde Park