Dr. John Bruchalski has practiced obstetrics and gynecology since 1987…. Bruchalski began his career practicing the full range of “reproductive medicine,” including abortions. But he experienced a profound conversion of heart following a live birth during a late-term abortion procedure, and resolved to practice a different kind of medicine, founding in 1994 the Tepeyac OB/GYN practice in Northern Virginia that supports fertility counseling, natural family planning, and support for families that have received an adverse prenatal diagnosis for their child.
He spoke to Charlie Camosy about “life-affirming” medicine, treating both the mother and her child as patients, and how he, as a doctor, sees some of the hardest of hard cases which have become flashpoints in the post-Dobbs debate.
How does one go from being an OB/GYN who performed abortions to giving talks at pro-life conferences?
Meaningful relationships, science, and grace.
Only by the mercy of Christ and my parents’ persistent rosary intercession for their son (Polish through and through) do I believe I came back to Christ and quit abortions.
From college to the middle of my OB/GYN residency, I was seduced by the new opium of the liberated: elective abortion on demand. I went along with the popular ideas of the time: that contraception, IVF, and abortion would liberate women from the chains of their fertility–those chains being the physical, emotional, and financial burden of childbearing. Modern gynecology residency programs embody these ideas, and I went along with them during my training. I performed elective abortions, many for medical reasons — spina bifida, hydropcephalus, chromosomal abnormalities.
During this time, a few important things happened. I was drawn to the medical testimony of famous geneticist Jerome Lejeune, who testified in a court case that IVF embryos were human based on the fact they contain all the genetic makeup of humans.
I began to think more about when life began and how a fertilized egg is one of us, part of the human family. I also befriended pro-life colleagues volunteers at a pregnancy center. But I was living a double life. I was volunteering at a crisis pregnancy center in the evening and performing elective abortions at the hospital when patients presented with this desire.
That period in my life was bookended by two vivid, spiritual experiences. I heard an audible voice while visiting Tepeyac Hill in Mexico City ask, “Why are you hurting me?” – which I promptly blew off.
Then one day in the hospital, I was trying to save one patient’s unborn baby in one room and terminate another pregnancy in the next — which is a cognitive dissonance many OB/GYNS face when they are treating two similar cases so vastly differently based on the wantedness of the unborn baby. A NICU doctor called me out for treating the unwanted babies as tumors. That caught my attention, and the coffee and conversation we shared afterward was quite influential in my heart softening.
The closing bookend occurred later on Podbrdo hill in Medjugorje, when I received a message from Christ and his Mother during prayer: “Medicine is an act of mercy. Be an excellent physician. Serve the least daily. Follow the teachings on doctrine and morals of my Son’s Church regarding your profession. My Son will renew you and medicine….”
The above comes from an August 5 story in The Pillar
Look for more and more of these but about Catholics turning away from the TLM to the Novus Ordo. “Jeff Southerman Turns Away from the TLM to Embrace the Mass of Vatican II”
Put down what you are smoking.
You’ve had enough.
Praise Jesus and Mary!
I can only express my gratitude to the Holy Spirit for this doctor’s conversion of mind and soul, and to his parents’ prayerful interventions Any one of us could have a lost adult child. I know many who do. There is never a moment to lose heart or stop praying for even the smallest of miracles.
Did he also turn away from the jab? Another day, another story of someone unexpectedly “dropping dead” suddenly. These vaxidents are happening every day.
Not true
If you’ve read about it, then you know that the general death rate for the population has skyrocketed. Insurance actuaries have calculated that we’re in a one-in-a-trillion-year event. It’s not a statistical fluke. Something has caused death rates, and hence life insurance payouts, to rise. Hmm… what could be a factor in the general population that was recently introduced? Ah, yes… the jab. Insurance companies are considering suing vaccine manufacturers to cover their life insurance losses because of how the jab has caused many sudden deaths for which the insurance companies have had to pay claims on.
If it’s not true, your head must be in the sand. What news outlets do you listen to or read?
Here’s just the latest example today:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ohio-medical-student-dies-during-102-mile-bike-ride-cancer-research
27-year-old medical student, prime of his life, excellent health, “suddenly died” while riding his bicycle. Cause? A heart-related issue.
It’s the jab. Another vaccident.
“Safe and Effective” was always a lie. They didn’t know.
Now “Sudden and Unexpected” is the new mantra.
If you or your loved ones got jabbed, you should be very worried about what it’s done to your heart and when you will drop dead.
There is no information as to his vax status in the article and your assumption that the vaccine caused heart related issues after someone just bicycled for 100 miles may not be valid.
A med student is most certainly “fully vaxxed and boosted,” and I bet he was “grateful for the protection the vaccine offered” until he suffered a heart attack and died because of it.
It’s better to suffer through four days of fever and sniffles than to throw your life away. But what’s done is done. You can’t give the jab back.
The headline makes it sound like he just recently made this decision. However, upon further investigation we learn that his conversation happened in 1994.
A couple of you may hate to hear the truth, but not every story is about the TLM or Novus Ordo or COVID vaccinations. Let’s thank God for this doctor and His work in his life.
AMEN May God be thanked for bringing this doctor back to Christ’s teachings on innocent life.
Link to The Pillar article:
https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/life-affirming-care-and-the-hardest