Dr. Joseph Bruner has operated on second trimester unborn babies with spina bifida. According to one article, “to ease the strain Dr. Bruner often talks to the unborn children while he works – to soothe them and keep them quiet, and to let them know what is going on. Sometimes he conveys a message from the parents, “We love you. We are trying our best to help.”
24 weeks – legal to abort in every US state
“Baby Samuel Photo Changes Family for Life” Atlanta Journal-Constitution April 8, 2000, Pro-Life Infonet, April 10, 2000
Yet Dr. Bruner is also an abortionist who kills children with spina bifida. He says this is “an increasingly difficult position to be in. Because we are performing surgery to improve the lifestyle of fetuses who have spina bifida, it is difficult to justify an operation that could also take that life away. As we walk through this minefield, society is going to have to take a good, hard look at itself, because it is untenable to hold both views.”
“Baby Samuel and Mother Doing Well after Fetal Surgery” WorldNetDaily, February 16, 2000
Quoted in Randy Alcorn “Pro-life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments” (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Publishers, 2000)