Doctors who Value Life

From the Rapid City Journal letters page today. Some more of those "crazy" doctors who seem to value life so much:

All life important
In our medical practice, we care for patients of all ages. Some are healthy, some are very sick. Some are young, some very old. Some have serious mental and physical handicaps.

Some of our patients have handicaps that are so severe that they cannot survive without substantial help from others. These people, of course, deserve the same respect and caring as any of our healthier patients.

Based on current medical knowledge, we believe life begins when a sperm and egg unite and conception takes place. Other than conception, there is no other reliable method to distinguish when a new human being actually exists during fetal development.

When we look at pictures of fetuses in early development, it's impossible to believe that what we see is only "tissue" and not a human.

Since we do believe that life begins at conception, we desire that those tiniest of humans, like our sickest patients, be regarded with respect and caring. We believe that all human life is important and deserves to be protected.

It is for this reason that we support Referred Law 6.

DAVID A. JOHNSON, M.D., DANIEL FRANZ, M.D. & SAM HUOT, M.D.
Rapid City