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From Abortionist to Pro-Life Advocate
What happens when an abortionist becomes a pro-lifer?
If there is anyone who should value the life of the unborn, one would think that it would be the very doctors who fight so hard to help women have healthy pregnancies. However, OB/GYNs are taught that abortion is good medicine and that in order to be a ‘good’ doctor, they must offer them to their patients.
This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr. John Bruchalski to discuss his story and how he went from performing abortions to being an adamant pro-life advocate.
Dr. John Bruchalski grew up in a Christian home, where he was raised in a pro-life family. However, as he went to college and then medical school, he shares that he, “became more concerned about what my friends thought of me, especially my female friends, who said that they needed abortion for freedom and choice.”
These two worlds clashed one night when in one room Dr. Bruchalski was trying to save a week baby because the mother wanted it while in another room he was trying to abort a week baby because the mother didn’t want it. As he was completing the abortion, one of his fellow OB/GYNs came into the room and said, “Stop treating my patients as tumors.” After this experienc
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Dr. John Bruchalski is an obstetrician and gynecologist in northern Virginia who practices what he calls “life-affirming medicine.” He is the founder of Tepeyac OB/GYN, a non-profit practice that cares for women of all economic statuses. His book, Two Patients: My Conversion from Abortion to Life-Affirming Medicine, was recently released by Ignatius Press. America spoke with Dr. Bruchalski in May to discuss the future of the pro-life movement after the reversal of Roe v. Wade.The following transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
In your book, you describe your vocation as a doctor as a vocation to the practice of “merciful medicine.” One of the prevailing responses of pro-choice women to the Dobbs decision has been fear: fear for their bodies, for their lives, for their livelihoods. How can Catholics respond to that fear with mercy?
I’ve been on both sides of this issue religiously as well as medically. I performed abortions until I underwent a conversion, and I did so thinking—mistakenly—that I was acting with mercy. I can’t throw stones at anyone. I know that we have to build up credibility in order to have these conversations. At my practice, we have been consistent about the gospel of life from day one—not by pushing it on people but b
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Former abortionist recalls moment symbolize pro-life conversion: ‘God’s sympathy is here’
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 23, / am
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