“The new abortion law is a minefield for abortionists,” claims Bev Daw, executive director of the Canadian Rights Coalition (CRC).
“Doctors are not going to get away by hiding behind their lab coats,” Mrs. Daw told The Interim Wherever we find evidence of a bungled abortion and somebody who feels angry about it, we’re going to urge them to sue.”
Sloppy
Mrs. Daw heads an organization concerned about the plight of women who are suffering from the after-effects of abortion.
“Abortionists are notoriously sloppy,” she said. “Many of them regard abortions as a quick way to make a quick buck. Lawsuits can help put abortionists out of business. And babies can be saved.”
Mrs. Daw is convinced that the mere prospect of being sued is repugnant to physicians and can keep abortionists out of the baby-killing business.
“The amount of insurance paid varies according to how many lawsuits are launched against doctors doing that kind of work,” she noted.
Trauma
A woman who herself had an abortion at age 16, Mrs. Daw knows what she’s talking about. For 12 years after her one and only abortion, she suffered from emotional trauma and nightmares.
When she did get married, her abortion also contributed to two difficult pregnancies, according to her doctor.
She considers herself fortunate to have had two children, ages seven and ten, Many of the women she counsels are permanently infertile because of abortion-related complications.
Bev recently tried to talk a 17-year-old girl out of an abortion. She went the distance with her, showing her pictures of unborn babies, counselling her, telling her what her baby would look like and what the side-effects of the abortion would be.
Bev even took the girl around to some friends who tried to talk her out of the abortion.
She failed.
As a last, desperate move Bev opted to go with the girl when she went for the abortion. Bev was allowed into the abortion ‘clinic’ and, trying her last move, told the girl: “I still love you and I’m here with you because what you’re doing is wrong.”
The young mother insisted on going ahead with the abortion, so Bev left before the procedure was concluded. It was just too painful a memory for her.
This girl keeps in touch with Bev and has now experienced severe emotional trauma. She wishes she hadn’t had the abortion.
Denial
Bev claims that even women who insist they have never experienced any regrets about having an abortion are “guilty of denial.”
Over one million Canadian women have had abortions over the past 20 years. As a result, there are a lot of hurting people out there, she states. The abortion industry is not the slightest bit interested in helping women who have been damaged and now need medical and emotional help.
Active in the pro-life movement for the past six years, Bev organized the Canadian Rights Coalition in February 1990 after visiting Charlie Wysong, a pro-life activist in the U.S. She patterned the CRC after his organization which has been highly successful in connecting aborted women with counsellors, doctors or lawyers.
A number of these women end up suing abortionists.
Cards
Although the CRC operates out of Hartington, a small town outside Kingston, Ontario, Bev travels extensively across Canada and the U.S. She has addressed thousands of people in 88 speaking engagements at the time of writing.
The CRC has printed 50,000 ‘Hurting after an abortion?’ cards. These urge any woman who is suffering from post-abortion syndrome to get in touch with the CRC at a toll-free number.
The cards have been left in doctors’ offices, bus stops, phone booths, theatres and washrooms. The same message can also be seen on billboards. As a result of this campaign, many women have come forward and contacted the CRC.
Intellectual fraud
Bev agrees with columnist Peter Stockland of the Ottawa Sun, who recently wrote that Bill C-43, Canada’s pending abortion law, is an intellectual fraud.
In the fall .of 1990 Justice Minister Kim Campbell issued a circular which attempted to calm doctors’ jailhouse fears. This same minister stated last November that the proposed act “struck a balance” between access to abortion and “society’s interest in the fetus.”
Mrs. Daw noted that nowhere in the 10-page philosophic claptrap of the circular is “interest in the fetus” mentioned.
Ms. Campbell, Mrs. Daw observes, even approves the use of the IUD in the circular. This is the same birth control contraption which has caused numerous infections, spontaneous abortions, severe health problems, infertility and deaths throughout the world.
In the U.S. alone it has resulted in hundreds of lawsuits. Some are pending in Canada. The American manufacturer was forced to seek protection under the bankruptcy act!
Again, Daw notes that Campbell dates herself by using the term ‘therapeutic abortions’. Even pro-abortionists don’t use the expression because they know, she says, that abortion is never ‘therapeutic’ for the child.
