Former termination doc tells his unthinkable and inspiring conversion story
SAN FRANCISCO — Dr. John Bruchalski wanted to service women and beryllium the precise champion doc helium could be, which is wherefore helium agreed to execute abortions during his residency. That was the expectation, aft all, and if it was what the diligent wanted, who was helium to dissuade them? After years of learning motivation relativism, helium didn’t person a occupation ending the lives of unborn babies if it was what the diligent wanted — until 1 time it didn’t spell arsenic planned. This communicative opens Dr. Bruchalski’s archetypal publication and memoir, TWO PATIENTS: MY CONVERSION FROM ABORTION TO LIFE-AFFIRMING MEDICINE (Ignatius Press).
“Stop giving maine tumors, John. Stop treating these babies similar they’re tumors. You’re amended than that. You’re a good physician.” These were the words directed astatine Dr. Bruchalski, who was trying to prevention a babe successful 1 country and aborting a babe of the aforesaid gestational property successful the adjacent country astatine a infirmary successful Norfolk, Virginia, erstwhile his conscience pricked him hard. It was the neonatologist who said those words to Dr. Bruchalski aft being called successful to attraction for the aborted babe who ended up being calved live and weighing conscionable implicit a pound.
TWO PATIENTS is the communicative of however 1 doc who practiced termination came to question the aesculapian presumption quo and to pioneer an attack to reproductive medicine that respects pistillate fertility, honors the dignity of unborn children and offers attraction to patients careless of their fiscal situation. Such wellness care, writes Dr. Bruchalski, is merciful medicine, and TWO PATIENTS gives a glimpse of conscionable however merciful the narration betwixt a doc and his 2 patients — parent and kid — tin be.
“Dr. Bruchalski has written an inspiring communicative of emotion and redemption that speaks to the caput and heart, and it should beryllium successful each aesculapian schoolhouse room successful America,” said Sue Ellen Browder, writer of Subverted: How I Helped the Sexual Revolution Hijack the Women’s Movement. “This publication is factual impervious that wherever religion and subject meet, contented is born. A must-read for each doctors, nurses and expectant parents.”
For much information, to petition a media reappraisal copy, oregon to docket an interrogation with Dr. John Bruchalski, delight interaction Kevin Wandra (404-788-1276 oregon [email protected]) of Carmel Communications.
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