Former Abortionist Who is Now Pro-Life Confirms Abortion is Not Health Care
Dr. John Bruchalski, a former abortionist-turned pro-life OB-GYN in Virginia, believes true, compassionate medicine means caring for both the mother and her unborn child. In a new interview with America Magazine, the Catholic doctor spoke about his practice, Tepeyac OB/GYN, which serves the poor and uninsured, and addressed the false claims that pro-life laws stop doctors […]
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Dr. John Bruchalski, a former abortionist-turned pro-life OB-GYN in Virginia, believes true, compassionate medicine means caring for both the mother and her unborn child.
In a new interview with America Magazine, the Catholic doctor spoke about his practice, Tepeyac OB/GYN, which serves the poor and uninsured, and addressed the false claims that pro-life laws stop doctors from providing good medical care.
Having once been a doctor who aborted unborn babies, Bruchalski said he understands the misplaced compassion that many abortion supporters have for struggling pregnant mothers. But after a conversion experience years ago, he said he now understands that killing babies in the womb is not compassionate or medical care.
“We have to listen to where people are coming from and identify that they’re afraid. They have real reasons to seek abortions,” the doctor told America Magazine. “But excellent medicine, aided by the advancements of the past several decades, allows us to care for both the mother and her unborn child.”
Asked about the widespread claim that state abortion bans are preventing doctors from providing necessary medical care, Bruchalski said it is not true.
For nearly a year, more than a dozen states have been protecting unborn babies from elective abortions, and pregnant mothers continue to receive care in these states. No women have died and tens of thousands of unborn babies have been saved.
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Last year, Dr. Ingrid Skop and Mary E. Harned, J.D. of the Charlotte Lozier Institute conducted extensive research into the issue, including analyses of state pro-life laws, abortion, and miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy care. They found that all state pro-life laws permit “abortion in those rare and heartbreaking circumstances when it is necessary to save the life of a pregnant woman,” including for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies.
Bruchalski also confirmed this in the interview, telling the magazine: “When you hear fear and terror and conflation of abortion with standard medical treatment, now that this is political, not medical. There have been wonderful, life-affirming physicians for millenia … We take care of patients. We did it before Roe, we did it during Roe, and we’re doing it now after Roe.”
In tragic cases where pregnant mothers are suffering from life-threatening conditions, such as an infection or a hemorrhage, he said doctors treat the condition and try to save the lives that they can. However, sometimes only the mother’s life can be saved.
He continued:
In an abortion, the doctor intends to end the life of the fetus. But when I am trying to save the life of a patient, that is never my intention. It’s always to save the life of the mother. I can never directly end the life of the fetus.
It’s never good medicine to tell a mother that you had to kill her child in order to save her life. That just chafes against human nature, against the unity of the human family.
He lamented how some doctors insist that the public “accept abortion as excellent health care.” Rather than address individuals’ suffering, “we eliminate the weakest members of our society, at the beginning or end of their lives. Medicine has lost its foundation of trust,” Bruchalski continued.
He said his medical practice has earned respect from people on both sides of the abortion issue because they show true dedication to helping patients in difficult circumstances. He said they don’t judge patients who have chosen abortion either; they are honest and factual with them but also compassionate and caring.
“We try to help correct, in our own simple way, some of the unjust structures within medicine, by bringing the poor and the disenfranchised into the same practice where we see the insured and the wealthy,” he said.
He expressed understanding for those who believe abortion is merciful because he once believed that, too. Through his medical practice, he said he hopes to change minds “– not by pushing it on people but by showing that it is the best option for health, wholeness and healing.”
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