The horrors of abortion are laid bare when you hear stories like the one from former abortion doctor John Bruchalski – now a pro-life OBGYN. In an interview with Lila Rose of Live Action, he recounted a nightmarish experience of being in one room and trying to keep a baby alive, while in the next room a mother wanted her baby dead.
“So here I am one night in one room there’s a young baby, about 22 weeks. Mom wants the baby, I’m doing everything I can to keep that pre-term labor intact inside of her so we get it to viability to get it out so that the baby can breath,” Bruchalski told Rose. “In the very next room, separated by eight inches of a wall maybe, the mom doesn’t want it. Same gestational age…because it wasn’t wanted, I didn’t want it, so I broke water, gave her Pitocin and delivered her.”
The baby was alive, and making “crying, wheezing, making squeaking noises” – but Bruchalski’s instinct was to take a towel and suffocate it, to spare the mother the suffering. He continued, “Do you know what my first instinct was? To suffocate it, and put a towel on it so mom wouldn’t suffer. But because the baby was a little bit heavier than I thought, I picked it up and put it, threw it on a scale.”
The baby weighed 505 grams, just 5 grams over the weight limit for what the state of Virginia designated a human life, so he was forced to call in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) doctor. Miraculously, she was taken to the NICU and lived.
Bruchalski’s experience is a stark reminder of the callousness of abortion and the disregard for the lives of unborn babies. It’s heartbreaking to think of how many other babies were not so fortunate, and were subjected to the same cruel and inhumane treatment.
Former abortionist @JohnBruchalski tells me about a baby born alive during one of his failed abortions
The baby was crying, wheezing:
"Do you know what my first instinct was? To suffocate it… My heart was ready, because I was bigger than it"
— Lila Rose (@LilaGraceRose) May 9, 2023
It’s a tragedy that these babies were not given a chance at life, and it’s a tragedy that their mothers were not given the opportunity to love and care for them.
We must continue to fight for the right of all babies to be born, and to be given a chance to live. We must continue to speak up against the injustice of abortion and make sure that no more babies are subjected to the same horrific fate as the one Bruchalski encountered that night. Every life is precious, and every life deserves to be protected.
