Dr john bruchalski biography channel

We speak today with Dr. John Bruchalski, a physician who has committed himself to the practice of holistic and life-affirming medicine..

John Bruchalski is a former abortionist' the 50-year-old Virginia native has now become a leading light in pro-life medicine. And if you serve the underserved, in order to provide excellent cooperative medicine that treats the disease but loves the patient you have to have the basis for natural family planning in your practice."

The Tepeyac Family Center now operates under an umbrella organization called Divine Mercy Care, which raises funds and heightens awareness through educational programs.

"Not only are you not qualified to be a mother and care for the child, but you have to give the child up," he explained. You must serve the underserved. Of the over 700 babies they delivered in 2009, 30% of the mothers did not have commercial insurance.

"The renewal of medicine is going to involve both social justice - seeing the poor - and the Gospel of life.

He was raised with traditional Catholic values, was educated in Catholic schools, taught to read Scripture, and was an alter server. This included assisting in and performing abortions, something he was becoming increasingly desensitized about morally. He was intrigued by the human body’s complex system of organs, muscles, and skeletal structure, particularly the female reproductive system.

There, he was taken in by professors and friends who claimed that the Catholic Church can change with the culture.

By the time he entered medical school in 1983 at the University of South Alabama, contraception and abortion seemed to him "the way to promote health and happiness and wholeness in a woman's reproductive life." Aiming to be the best gynecologist he could, he learned the different methods for abortion, sterilization, and artificial reproduction, and began providing them during residency.

But he began to have doubts. 

I didn't see happiness or joy in my clinics, wherever I had more abortion, more contraception, there were more broken relationships, more infections, more destruction, more brokenness."

"I didn't know what to do because the professors were saying 'Well, we just need more education, more contraception, more abortion to answer these questions,'" he added.

"A better way to practice medicine"

Bruchalski first felt the call back to the faith of his childhood right before beginning his residency, when a friend convinced him to take a trip to Guadalupe in Mexico City.

After several alarming and heart-gripping experiences, he began rethinking his career and found a new, life-affirming vocation in medicine. "Almost like an abortion-free zone."

They are the only practice in the country offering full obstetrical care for patients from crisis pregnancy centers, and they have a special dedication to welcoming the poor.

"They hate that choice, so for them the abortion becomes the best alternative, the least terrible of those options."

"You really have to focus on [the fact] that there is life after having a child, that there is a way out of your predicament," he said. He experienced a rift between what he considered traditional Catholic values and what was presented by “liberal Catholic” Jesuit priests and brothers in his classes as more “relative” values of morality.

It's both/and, not either/or," he said. He was a very sincere listener, and realized later in life that God was already planting in him the seed to someday become a physician in the field of obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN).

Even though John had had a deep love and reverence for Jesus early in his life, as he entered adolescence and college, he grew more and more lukewarm in his faith, sometimes questioning and challenging what he had been taught about right and wrong against what the world considered ethical.

Nearly 30 years ago, Dr. Bruchalski and his wife founded the Tepeyac Family Center, a pro-life obstetrics and gynecology medical practice. John Bruchalski’s story is a remarkable example of God never giving up on His children no matter how far they may have strayed.

John Bruchalski was born into a devout Polish Catholic family which was active in their parish community.

Their network of services includes a perinatal hospice, and in coming years they hope to offer a family practice, pediatric care, and a mental health program.

Offering hope for life with a child

Dr. Through his unique Tepeyac Family Center, one of the largest free-standing pro-life medical practices in the country, Dr.

Bruchalski's team offers a safe haven for women in crisis pregnancies, spreading hope through authentic health care that respects the natural processes of the woman's body, the right to life of the unborn child

Though raised in a Catholic family, Bruchalski says he began his exit from the faith when he left for Catholic college.

"You can't be an NFP-only doctor.