![]() And so I was a person pleaser at the time, rather than following where my mind and heart were. You go from the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom to the fear of your friends is the beginning of being exiled. TRACI DEVETTE GRIGGS: So it’s interesting that you mentioned that your friends had quite an influence on the way you felt in your early days, but it was a particular friend or colleague that made you reconsider. And, sadly, today it leads to the abortion clinic. And I just became lukewarm in that, and when you unmoor mercy and medicine and health from truth and light and life, back in the forties, it led to the gas chambers. And during my high school and college, everything became muddied, chaos, confused, and relativized, and I over time became more concerned about what my friends thought of me, especially my female friends, who said that they needed abortion for freedom and choice. JOHN BRUCHALSKI: Even though I was grounded in scripture and prayer and the love of the Lord and his love for us, I, basically, was given over to education. Well, let’s talk about how you, then, went, first of all, from being raised in a pro-life home to being an abortion doctor. I’m coming from your northern neighbor, the great Commonwealth of Virginia, and I, too, had a deep respect and love for Dick Douglas. John Bruchalski, welcome to Family Policy Matters. John Bruchalski had a similar transformation in thinking, and he wrote a book about it, “Two Patients: My Conversion from Abortion to Life-Affirming Care.” And we are excited to say he’s here to discuss what that meant in his life and his occupation.ĭr. Well, I always wanted to dig deeper into that transformation, but we never did. He gave a testimony on video once about his sudden realization that an aborted child is a human baby, and it changed his life. And he was passionate in his defense of the pre-born, but that was not always the case. Dick Douglas, who went to be with the Lord in August. The North Carolina Family Policy Council for years was honored to have on our board of directors a beloved OB/GYN out of Greenville, North Carolina, Dr. TRACI DEVETTE GRIGGS: Thanks for joining us this week for Family Police Matters. Transcript: From Abortionist to Pro-Life Advocate Tune in to one of the radio stations that carry Family Policy Matters.Search on iTunes or your podcast app for: “NC Family’s Family Policy Matters” podcast. Subscribe to our podcast, so you can hear our interviews every week. ![]() Bruchalski share his experience going from performing abortions to being a fierce advocate for the unborn. And relational means conversational, both with those in your community, in your family, but also with our Lord and Savior.” Tune in to Family Policy Matters this week to hear Dr. “Medicine is an act of mercy, and health is relational. Bruchalski ends by sharing about his organizations, Divine Mercy Care and Tepeyac OB/GYN, and the work they are doing to show medical students that abortion is not healthcare. Bruchalski was trying to save a 22-week baby because the mother wanted it while in another room he was trying to abort a 22-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 experience, he shares, “I began to realize or see that genetics, embryology, what science really says about the human life matters, and it was her courageous witness alongside the medical data - abortion and breast cancer, abortion and pre-term labor, abortion and mental illness, abortion and suicide - and then she began to get me back to prayer again.”ĭr. These two worlds clashed one night when in one room Dr. However, as he went to college and then medical school, he shares that he, “b ecame more concerned about what my friends thought of me, especially my female friends, who said that they needed abortion for freedom and choice.” John Bruchalski grew up in a Christian home, where he was raised in a pro-life family. John Bruchalski to discuss his story and how he went from performing abortions to being an adamant pro-life advocate.ĭr. This week on Family Policy Matters, host Traci DeVette Griggs welcomes Dr. ![]() 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. 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. What happens when an abortionist becomes a pro-lifer?
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