Two Patients Quotes

“We are rejecting babies for fear of imperfections.
I shuddered to think that fear and the desire for perfect, healthy babies were driving many of the mother's decisions.”
― John Bruchalski, Two Patients: My Conversion from Abortion to Life-Affirming Medicine

“For the sick babies with a life-limiting diagnosis, sometimes I couldn't help but wonder if abortion was really the best treatment we had to offer. How could ending a life be considered "treatment" when we were taught to do no harm? And would ending the life of her child, no matter how sick, be something a mother could ever get over emotionally?”
― John Bruchalski, Two Patients: My Conversion from Abortion to Life-Affirming Medicine