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Pro-Abortion Hysteria Over Stabbing of B.C. Abortionist

VANCOUVER, July 12 (LSN.ca) - Pro-abortion activists and sympathetic media are responding with near hysteria to the stabbing attack on abortionist Garson Romalis yesterday.

Blame for the wounding incident is being assigned to pro-life organizations, churches, Joan Andrews Bell and even newly elected Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day. Media coverage of this relatively minor (as national news), but convenient incident has quickly transformed into an intense national abortion propaganda campaign. The main target appears to be Canada's shift towards social conservatism and acceptance of more open, public dialogue on the abortion issue.

The U.S. Abortion Federation has issued an alert to clinics and doctors in the U.S. and Canada, supposedly concerned that the lone assailant is part of some large conspiracy. The media have made the stabbing a lead story. Every 20 minutes Toronto's news radio 640 has been providing special "in-depth coverage" of the stabbing, interviewing local abortionists about their heightened security in response to the incident over 2,000 miles away in Vancouver.

Blame The Pro-Lifers, The Churches & Stockwell Day

Commenting on the previous gunshot wounding of Romalis, University of British Columbia Students For Choice leader Erin Kaiser, who earlier this year destroyed a pro-life display on campus, declared (although the 1994 Romalis shooting is unsolved) that he was shot by "an anti-abortion fanatic." Kaiser went on to blame pro-lifers for yesterday's attack as well saying that the stabbing "is clearly an escalation of anti-choice violence against abortion providers and clinic workers." There have not been any incidents of violence against abortionists by abortion opponents in Canada in 30 years and pro-life activism has dramatically declined in recent years.

Vancouver abortionist Ellen Wiebe, known mainly for experiments on women with abortion drugs, blamed churches for the attack. "I call on churches to stop the rhetoric that helps mentally unstable people resort to violence," she said in a National Abortion Federation press release. In contrast, pro-life leaders generally believe that Canada's church leaders have instead been disasterously far too timid on the issue, with the issue not having been a major priority for most of them for many years.

This morning on Canada AM, Joyce Arthur of the BC Pro-Choice Action Network drew a link between the stabbing and the election of Stockwell Day as leader of the Canadian Alliance (CA). Asked to speculate about the cause of the stabbing, Ms. Arthur said: "We are also thinking about the fact that the right-wing momentum in Canada now with the recent election of Stockwell Day, or wondering if that gives an air of respectability to right-wing, more extremist views, perhaps, on these social issues like abortion, and perhaps encourages extremists to act out their beliefs." Echoing the same fear of the new rise in social conservatism, pro-abortion BC activist Hilda Thomas is quoted in today's Vancouver Province saying, "I think it has something to do with . . . the swing towards social conservative politics, which is really a swing towards bigotry and intolerance."

The most elaborate and far-fetched attempt to pin the attack on Day came from the Canadian Abortion Rights Action League (CARAL). CARAL points out that Day's campaign manager is CA MP Jason Kenney, and that Kenney "has strong ties" to Human Life International (HLI), and that Joan Andrews-Bell has spoken at an HLI conference, and that Bell is friends with James Kopp, and that James Kopp is a prime suspect in attacks on abortionists. The connect-the-dots type reasoning is presumably pointing the finger at Day.

Evidence To The Contrary

In contrast to the wild, self-serving speculation of abortion activists, the possibility that abortion supporters themselves could resort to violence to discredit the pro-life movement was contained in a 1994 report of the government's Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). The report indicated that the fire and explosion at the Morgentaler abortuary in 1992 was believed to have been committed "by a left wing activist to make the government take action against the anti-abortionists."

One of the suspects at the time, whose girlfriend had undergone an abortion at the site, was photographed by staff loitering outside the abortion mill. He was the prime suspect and police questioned him extensively after the event. Years later, close to the anniversary of the death of his unborn child, he was arrested by police after the discovery of the bodies of both of his parents on the lawn of their Toronto home. David Patten awaits trial for the murder of his parents.

When Campaign Life Coalition was cooperating with the law enforcement officers of the U.S. Dept. of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to create a profile of suspects who could carry out violent incidents, the most likely candidates were those who were directly affected by the killing of their children.

Who is Benefiting From All This?

Pro-life groups have consistently emphasized that being pro-life, means being pro-all-life and not pro-death for abortionists. The suggestion that pro-lifers are responsible for the three Canadian gun woundings of abortionists, the Morgentaler fire and explosion and now this stabbing, is strongly rejected. Analysis of the benefits of such incidents to the pro-life and pro-abortion movements has not been reported. Leaders of Canada's major pro-life organizations have observed that the incidents have been a goldmine for abortion activists who usually reap a whirlwind of sympathetic press, gain more government action for their cause and incite totally unjustified hostility towards pro-lifers. An increase in dead babies by abortion therefore follows each incident. Although the violent incidents may be a factor in discouraging some doctors from doing abortions, the annual number of abortions in Canada has been steadily climbing to an all-time high of 114,000 for 1997, the most recent reported year.

The highly professional manner in which each of the noted violent incidents have been carried out suggest to some pro-life leaders that organized crime may be involved in the incidents. The combined efforts of local, provincial, national and continental police forces have not led to any arrests, let alone convictions. Although one suspect, James Kopp, has been named in one attack at least, it is unlikely that he could have acted alone. Kopp was not thought by friends, former neighbours and pro-life associates to be capable of carrying out such attacks and those who have known him insist he does not possess a violent personality. It is not even known if Kopp is still alive.

The coincidence of these attacks during a time when repeated efforts have been made to gain approval for the RU-486 abortion drug raises some suspicion. RU-486 is being touted as the solution to the shortage of doctors willing to perform abortions and might lead to a large leap in the annual number of abortions and therefore huge sales of the drug. Perhaps there is an intense interest in making certain that abortions are transferred from abortionists to dispensed drugs which would enrich certain individuals.

Whoever is actually guilty of these attacks on abortionists and of providing abortion supporters with such convenient propaganda gifts, pro-life leaders are becoming increasingly convinced that abortion activists and their media friends are leading everyone astray on the search for the real perpetrators. Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) leaders are suggesting that everyone start considering other possible solutions to these bizarre incidents that have been of no benefit whatever to the pro-life movement and the protection of Canada's preborn children.

CLC also suggests that there may be far less of a serious interest in really finding out who the attackers are than in exploiting the incidents to the hilt for their propaganda value. CLC strongly urges pro-lifers, politicians, church leaders and others to be very cautious in how they respond to the pro-abortion lies and allegations and not become co-opted into their propaganda campaigns.

Campaign Life Coalition president, Jim Hughes, hopes that if this latest attack was caused by a sick individual suffering the after affects of an abortion, he would seek immediate medical assistance and stop taking the law into his own hands.

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