Pro-Choice Violence and Illegal Activities in British Columbia

Campbell River Vancouver Victoria Campbell River, British Columbia

Rape (2 incidents) and Sexual Assault (19 incidents) Retired Campbell River abortionist Mark Walter Stewart raped one woman twice and sexually abused nine other women. One of the women went to police in 1997 after going to the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1994. It held a disciplinary hearing in 1996, which resulted only in Stewart being told to change his examining technique. His offenses, which began in 1985, continued until 1998. On September 30, 2001, the abortionist was convicted on 10 of 12 counts involving sexual assaults on female patients. These assaults included inappropriate touching of breasts and genitals during examinations, the court heard during the trial. The incidents occurred at Stewart's family practice in Campbell River between 1971 and 1991. Justice David Vickers noted that Stewart showed no remorse and made no apologies for his crimes. Stewart appealed the sentence to the B.C. Court of Appeal. One victim said "Until all these brave women came forward, I was left all alone and it's all been worth it because we won today. Another told reporters she went to court "thinking we would not have a conviction and to hear the way it went is just absolutely phenomenal. I'm just so elated. These are tears of joy." At his trial, Stewart also admitted he had sexual intercourse with a female patient more than once, but testified it was consensual. He caused laughter among pro-lifers when he claimed that he was trying to provide "emotional support" to the patient by having sex with her twice in his office and once at her home. He also admitted that he billed the woman for a counseling session the day they had intercourse in

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her home. Earlier in Stewart's trial, a 14-year-old girl testified that he fondled her breasts in the hospital after she had her tonsils removed. Stewart insists he examined her breasts during a routine physical before the surgery and he denies he performed the exam for sexual reasons. The charges against Stewart involved nine former female patients. In reporting this case, the media consistently failed to reveal that Stewart was an abortionist. The coverage by the Canadian Post referred to him as a "retired doctor" and says the assaults occurred "at Stewart's family practice." When the case hit the media in July 2001, Campbell River-area pro-lifers told LifeSite that Stewart was an abortionist. John Hof, President of Campaign Life Coalition BC, told LifeSite: "If Stewart were in dentistry or psychiatry he would be identified as a dentist or a psychiatrist, however, since he is an abortionist he is only referred to as a local physician. Interesting." Earlier reports indicated that well-known abortionist Ellen Wiebe was to testify against her colleague at the trial, noting that sexual touching is not associated with medical examinations. Later, Stewart caused havoc for the British Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. Nineteen women Victoria McClelland, Robin Woods, Leslie MacGregor, Candice Lanes, Emma Perrault, Diana Matilpi, Patricia Parsley, Kelly Guthrie, Maureen Brinson, Carol Pouliot, Dorita Dempster, Robin MacKenzie, Rosanne Dejong, Judy White, Stephanie Ireland, Anna Ferreira, Debra Hanson, Susan Garde and Jana Allingham sued the abortionist for sexual assault, and also named the College as part of their suit. Stewart is free on bail after completing only part of his prison sentence pending an appeal to be heard in November of 2003. There is evidence to show that women had complained about Stewart's sexual abuse back to the 1960s, but nothing was done about him. In 2007, Stewart managed to get his name removed from the Canadian National Sex Offender Registry (at public expense), because he was worried about the stigma associated with it. Stewart currently works on laying out logging roads, an occupation more suited to his personality and skills. References: "Former Campbell River Doctor Faces Sex Charges: Mark Walter Stewart Says Former Patient Was A Willing Participant." The Canadian Press, June 27, 2001; "Media Fails to Mention Doctor Charged for Sex Offences is an Abortionist." LifeSite Daily News, July 4, 2001; "Doctor Guilty of Sex-Related Charges." CNEWS, September 21, 2001; "Canadian Abortionist Found Guilty of Sexual Assault on Patients." LifeSite Daily News, September 25, 2001; The Nanaimo Daily News, December 1, 2001; "Canadian Abortionist Sentenced to Four Years for Sexual Assaults." LifeSite Daily News, December 3, 2001; "News Notes: Canadian Abortionist Sentenced for Sexual Charges." The Wanderer, December 13, 2001, page 3; "B.C. College of Physicians Facing Lawsuit for Allegedly Concealing Abortionist's Sex Abuse History: Media Coverage Consistently Failed to Mention that Dr. Stewart was an Abortionist." LifeSite Daily News, August 27, 2003. Also see the ruling McClelland et al. v. Dr. Stewart et al., 2003 BCSC 1292.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Attempted Murder (14 incidents) and Firebombings (4 incidents) On October 23rd and November 1, 1997, pro-abortionists firebombed the home of Paul Nielson, a Canadian pro-life leader and columnist. They used a German-style naval flare which emits thick, oily, orange-grey smoke. Fire investigators said that, if Nielsen and his family had not evacuated the house as quickly as they did, they most likely would have all died in the fire. Nielsen, his wife and their twelve

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children have suffered continuous anti-life intimidation and harassment since he ran for the Tories in the federal election of 1988, when anti-lifers twice firebombed his campaign office. Pro-lifers called on British Columbia pro-abortion leaders to condemn the violence, but they refused to do so showing clearly that they supported it. References: Ted Gerk. "Pro-Abort's Bomb Nearly Kills Pro-Life Leader, Family." Life Advocate, December 1993, page 16; "From the Mail." The Wanderer, December 31, 1998, page 11. Attempted Murder, Negligence (3 incidents) and Malpractice Nadine Bourne arrived at Vancouver General Hospital on the evening of December 16, 1985. She said she had received an abortion at a Bellingham, Washington, abortion mill four days earlier and was suffering complications. Records show that Dr. Kamil Jaroudi, a resident at VGH, examined Bourne, but failed to discover the existence of the baby she was carrying. At 3:20 AM on December 17, Bourne gave birth to a little girl subsequently named "Ximena" while sitting on a commode. Although Bourne had told hospital officials she was just 14 to 16 weeks pregnant, Ximena's size about three pounds indicated she was much further along. Court records show that attending nurse Vera Wood did not call a "code blue" (the resuscitation team) or the "infant transport team" (to send the baby to Children's Hospital) upon Ximena's birth, although she was struggling for life and was clearly large enough to be viable. Instead, "She took the baby into the service room where dead fetuses are stored, and left it there [in a bedpan] for 40 minutes," according to a July 1998 document prepared by attorney Thomas Berger and filed with the court two months later. The document says "We could prove that Vera Wood and other nurses did nothing to suction the baby or to provide warmth or oxygen for the child. Our case was that the baby suffered severe [trauma] as a result of these acts or omissions by VGH and its employees, resulting in brain damage in the form of mental retardation and cerebral palsy." After 40 minutes, nurse Wood called the night nursing supervisor, Joyce Hatherall, who cleared the baby's air passages, provided warmth and called for oxygen. Mr. Berger states further, "We also had evidence that Dr. Jaroudi, called up to the ward, realized the baby had been delivered by Nadine Bourne, and realized it was viable, but nevertheless told the nurses not to resuscitate the baby ("... let it go"). He was ignored by Joyce Hatherall." Evidence also showed that, even after nurse Hatherall's intervention, Ximena was put at further risk. She was placed for a time on a metal counter, which likely resulted in continuing heat loss and hypothermia. And, in finally calling for the infant transport team, Dr. Jaroudi neglected to tell Children's Hospital the location from which he was calling. "As a result, another half-hour was lost," Mr. Berger declared. "It is apparent that there is evidence of serious crimes by Vera Wood and Dr. Jaroudi. This may still be a matter to be considered by the Criminal Justice Branch of the Attorney General's Ministry." Ximena won a record-setting $8.7 million settlement from Vancouver General Hospital. The money will be used to provide Ximena with a specially built house and round-the-clock care for the rest of her life. The Renaerts' lawyer, former British Columbia Supreme Court justice Thomas Berger, has named two VGH medical practitioners in connection with possible criminal wrongdoing in the case. In an unsealed document filed with the court, Mr. Berger declared, "There is evidence of serious crimes" committed by Dr. Kamil Jaroudi, who now practices in Saudi Arabia, and nurse Vera Wood, who is retired." The Registered Nurses Association of British Columbia conducted a "professional conduct review" into the actions of two nurses involved in Ximena's abortion/birth. However, the Association has thrown

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a blanket of secrecy over the matter. Section 218 of the Criminal Code makes it an offence for anyone to abandon or expose a child under 10 "so that its life is or is likely to be endangered or its health is or is likely to be permanently injured." Section 219 states someone is criminally negligent if "in omitting to do anything that is his duty to do, shows wanton or reckless disregard for lives or safety or other persons." A more serious charge would be one of attempted murder. Section 223, which deals with homicide, states that a child becomes human when "it has completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother." Significantly, the RNABC reminds its members in a review of relevant legislation that the code "strictly prohibits the deliberate killing of any person. Therefore, in no event should a registered nurse deliberately terminate the life of a patient." Ximena's adoptive mother says her daughter has suffered terribly. "How can you ever bring justice when all the damage is done?" Mrs. Renaerts asks. "I guess my big hope that what happened to Ximena won't be in vain," she adds. "It could be you in the hospital and what if they feel that you're not worthy of life. We have to stop somewhere." Reference: Terry O'Neill. "Did Someone Try to Murder Ximena?" BC Report Newsmagazine, August 30, 1999. Assault (2 incidents) Pro-lifers Cecilia von Dehn and Peggy Holland of Concerned Nurses for PRICE (Patients Rights Informed Consent Ethics) attended the November 1996 International Women's Day (IWD) meetings in Vancouver. They attended an open planning meeting. Organizers of the meeting recognized them as pro-lifers and banned them from the meeting room, shut the door, blocked the window with cardboard, and posted a guard outside the room. Cecilia and Peggy took photographs of the scene and were leaving when about seven women emerged from the meeting room and tackled Mrs. von Dehn to the floor, attempting to get her camera. The women surrounded them, kicking, punching and grabbing them, but Mrs. von Dehn managed to hold on to the camera, which was pinned underneath her. When Mrs. Holland intervened she was also assaulted. One of the feminists dangled Mrs. von Dehn's wallet and cell phone in her face, offering them back in exchange for the camera. After a bystander approached, the feminists removed themselves from Mrs. von Dehn and her belongings were returned. Police were called and recommended that charges be laid. Later, however, the Crown spent six months investigating the matter before finally deciding that laying charges was "not in the public interest," which is a matter of course when it is pro-lifers who are being assaulted. Even after complaints were made to a Justice of the Peace and a second recommendation for charges was made, the Crown continued in its refusal. Finally Mrs. von Dehn hired legal counsel to take the case to court. References: "Feminist Assault of Two Women Finally Reaches BC Court." LifeSite Daily News, April 25, 2000; "Assault Charges Against Feminists Thrown Out." Pro-Choice Action Press, Autumn/Winter 2000. Assault On March 15, 2003, John Hof, the leader of Campaign Life Coalition B.C., was picketing outside the fifty meter bubble zone surrounding a Vancouver abortion mill. His sign compared the abortion holocaust to the killing of blacks and Jews. Pro-abortionist Douglas Chase approached Hof, looked at his

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sign, kicked it, and then punched Hof in the face. There were many bystanders who witnessed the attack, including a police officer who was observing the scene. Hof, who sustained bruising and a bleeding nose from the attack, got up to find the man in handcuffs. Although several witnesses corroborated Hof's account of the attack, the police immediately began to change the story of what happened in order to protect the pro-abortionist. Even though no such thing actually happened, police spokesman Constable Sarah Bloor told LifeSite that there was a "verbal exchange" followed by a "pushing match" after which the "victim was struck in the face" and incurred a "cut on the lip." Bloor said she could not release the name of the assailant since he was not yet charged. She explained that the crown council had not approved of charges. Ted Gerk of the BC Pro-Life Resource Center told LifeSite he was very concerned at the cavalier attitude taken toward assaults of pro-lifers by BC authorities. Gerk recalled the University of BC incident where a pro-abortion student was given nothing more than a slap on the wrist for being caught on video destroying a pro-life display. References: "Police Arrest Pro-Abort Thug Who Assaulted B.C. Pro-Life Picketer: Crown Council Has Not Yet Approved Charges, Say Police." LifeSite Daily News, March 18, 2003; "Case of Assault against Pro-Lifer Far from Over." The Interim, October 2003. Malpractice Abortionist Ronald Harold Dabbs, who worked at Vancouver's Prince George Regional Hospital, botched a 1997 abortion on a woman, whose baby was later born healthy. When he found out that the patient was still pregnant, the abortionist offered her money to cross into the United States for a partial-birth abortion, which she refused. In July 2004, the British Columbia Supreme Court awarded the mother $60,000 in damages for a "failed" abortion. The money was for the "emotional turmoil" she experienced for having to go through with an unwanted pregnancy, and for wages lost during the recovery from giving birth. The judge also found that Dabbs had made several mistakes, complicated by the presence of an intra-uterine device embedded in the woman's uterus and his failure to read lab reports properly. References: Supreme Court of British Columbia. Rachel Roe, Plaintiff, v. Dr. R.H. Dabbs, Dr. P. McNicholas, Dr. D. Lesack and Prince George Regional Hospital. 2004 BCSC 957, July 15, 2004, Docket number 05919, registry Prince George, downloaded from http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/Jdb-txt/SC/04/09/2004BCSC0957.htm on July 31, 2004; "Canadian Woman Awarded $60,000 for "Failed" Abortion." LifeSite Daily News, July 21, 2004; "Judge Awards $60,000 Over Failed Abortion." CBC News, July 21, 2004. Destruction of Property (4 incidents) and Assault (3 incidents) On November 23, 1999, pro-abortionists physically attacked pro-life students as they stood peacefully beside their display tables at the University of British Columbia. The pro-life students were participating in a University approved display when three pro-aborts came up to the tables and began to tear the posters and shred the literature, demolishing the presentation. The violence was all captured on video tape and was given to police, but, of course, no charges were filed against the pro-aborts. The Crown Counsel decided not to prosecute the three pro-abortionists because it was "not in the

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public interest." The Crown attempted to excuse itself by saying it was considering the "context" in which the violence occurred; the victims had been in a long "debate" with their attackers; that the attackers had no previous criminal records and would likely get light sentences; that the university was a more appropriate forum for discipline; and that it did not consider the "incident" to be a "serious" one. In fact, Joyce Arthur of the Pro-Choice Action Network stated in a Vancouver Sun essay that pro-abortion violence is justified because "It's about public safety and the spread of hate propaganda. ... These students were personally outraged by GAP's [Genocide Awareness Project's] hate propaganda. Their actions came from the heart, not from any conspiracy." One opinion-piece writer highlighted the stunning hypocrisy and gross bias of the court system and the pro-aborts, saying So it is "not in the public interest" to press charges for the blatant destruction of property, but it is "in the public interest" to arrest a 25-year-old woman for handing out roses within the limits of a [abortion mill] bubble zone. The public's interests were somehow better served last year by taking Mary Wagner to trial (where Exhibit #2 was ... a rose!!!) and having her spend 55 days in a maximum security jail at the taxpayer's expense. ... It is ironic that the feminists and activists who marched 30 years ago to win the right to have their voices heard on this issue have now given rise to a culture that denies this right to any who dare to disagree. The pro-life student's group at the University responded by pointing out the fallacy of the Crown's arguments for rejection of prosecution. "By not acknowledging the criminal nature of the attack, Crown is condoning mob violence," said the group's president Stephanie Gray. The perception is that people who commit violence in an effort to stifle the unpopular speech of others will not be held accountable. The victims know that if they were to unlawfully protest by handing out roses or saying prayers within the "bubble-zone" at an abortion clinic, they would immediately be imprisoned. Why has the Crown declared an 'open season' on pro-lifers and their property? To tolerate violence is to condone it. American pro-lifers know this double-standard very well; if UBC pro-lifers had destroyed a pro-abortion display, no matter what the alleged "context," they would have been thrown in jail right away. One of the perpetrators was Erin Kaiser, the head of UBC Students for Choice. The pro-life Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) was effectively banned from campus when UBC placed impossible restrictions on the presenting group, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, which had been invited to campus by the students. They were told to pay an incredible $10,000 per day for security costs plus an exorbitant $5,000 deposit for damage that might be done by persons opposing their exhibit. In other words, the University expected pro-lifers to pay for the destructive irresponsibility of pro-aborts. The presentation was also moved from a main concourse to a remote sports field. Emboldened by the British Columbia Supreme Court decision, on March 1, 2000, Judith Scott destroyed pro-life literature at a Simon Fraser University [Burnaby, B.C.] table display as police and campus security watched. Scott defended her vandalism, saying it was a "statement in support of a woman's right to choose." She conceded that pro-lifers had the right to express their point of view. However, she also maintained she had the right to destroy the property of people with whom she did not agree. When the University of British Columbia (UBC) finally dealt with the pro-abortion violence, it did so in a typically pandering manner. It created new, lenient policies on violence at the university

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specifically to accommodate violent pro-abortionists. Rather than a notation of academic misconduct, which would remain on a student's permanent record for at least two years after graduation, the three members of the UBS "Students for Choice" who physically attacked the pro-life display received a notation of "student misconduct." This only remains on their record for two years from the time of the offense. Erin Kaiser, the leader of the pro-abortion group who was caught on video destroying the display, said the new rules "made it so that I can potentially go to law school. If I was going to have academic misconduct on my transcript, it was going to be impossible." Commenting on the decision, Athena Macapagal, a third-year Environmental Science student and member of a pro-life club said, the university "has essentially opened the flood gates for mob rule. If you don't agree with your neighbor's view and she happens to express her view by holding a display, GO AHEAD and DESTROY IT! The most you'll get is a six-month suspension, where four of those months are in the summer, and a 'student misconduct' notation." Further emboldened by the craven cowardice of the University's administration, 'Students for Choice' published a "how-to" guide on how to infiltrate pro-life groups and destroy their property on its Web site. The guide said "Look at the website of your campus' anti-choice group; contact them by email, talk to them without revealing you are pro-choice. Find out whether they have links to any other anti-choice groups or to local churches, and try to find out what their upcoming plans are. You can even join the group and pretend to be anti-choice." Until February 15, 2002, the Web site advocated "vandalism" and the use of "spray paint" and "scissors" to deface and destroy pro-life displays. After letters of protest from the Pro-Life Resource Centre and Campaign Life Coalition BC to the Attorney General, the Web site removed the offensive terms, but retained the call for destruction of the pro-life displays. The site continued to advocate the vandalism but no longer openly referred to it as such. The altered site then read, in a section dealing with on-campus pro-life displays, "Or you could take it down. If you choose this option, DO NOT DO IT ALONE OR IN A SMALL GROUP. Make it a mass action or do not do it at all. In a group of fifty or more, calmly approach the display, and one by one take a piece of it down." The guide also boasted of a successful infiltration and names the member who fraudulently misrepresented herself: "At UBC, Erin Kaiser contacted the presidents of Lifeline by email, pretending to be 'Mary Jane O'Keefe,' a young Baptist girl from Red Deer, Alberta, and subsequently joined the group." Finally, the pro-lifers got some small measure of justice in the court system. British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen awarded $5,000 in damages to three University of British Columbia students whose pro-life display was destroyed by three elected student leaders Erin Kaiser, Jon Chandler and Lesley Washington. In contrast to her "brave and angry" attitude outside the court, Kaiser put on her best "victim" act in court, sniveling that that she found the display offensive because she is Jewish and had relatives who died in the Holocaust. She also alleged that she had had an abortion a month before she destroyed the Lifeline display. Three members of the anti-abortion Lifeline Club Stephanie Gray, Athena Macapagal and Michelle Laroya had filed the lawsuit against the University, seeking damages for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and vicarious liability, but the judge dismissed these claims. References: "Pro-Life Students Attacked at UBC Pro-Life Display." LifeSite Daily News, November 24, 1999; "UBC Display Trashing Charges "Not in the Public Interest," Says Crown: Crown Endorses Violence Against Pro-Lifers." LifeSite Daily News, March 10, 2000; Susan Martinuk. Opinion piece entitled "Abundance of Evidence But Crown Doesn't Care." The Province, March 15, 2000; "Court Inaction Causes Further Pro-Abortion Vandalism." LifeSite Daily News, April 5, 2000; Ted Gerk.

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"View from the West: Having Coffee." The Interim ["Canada's Pro-Life, Pro-Family Newspaper"], April 2000, page 6; "University Downgrades Punishment for Pro-Abortion Violence." LifeSite Daily News, September 28, 2000; "Pro-Abortion Students Told to Infiltrate Pro-Life Campus Groups: Reference to Promoting "Vandalism" Removed From Activist Guide." LifeSite Daily News, February 20, 2002; "Pro-Life University Students Take Censorship Battle to Court: Extreme Intolerance of Pro-Life Views and Material by UBC Alma Mater Society." LifeSite Daily News, September 17, 2002; "BC Court Sees Evidence of Pro-Abortion Violence." LifeSite Daily News, October 8, 2002; "UBC Student Society Absolves Itself of Pro-Abortion Vandalism." LifeSite Daily News, January 13, 2003; Neal Hall. "Students Fined for Trashing Anti-Abortion Display." The Vancouver Sun, June 7, 2003, page B3; "Court Rules Against Freedom of Expression at B.C. University: Student Government Allowed to Ban Images of Aborted Babies." LifeSite Daily News, June 11, 2003.

Victoria, British Columbia

Rape (6 incidents), Sexual Abuse of a Minor (6 incidents) and Forced Abortion This case is another excellent example of how legalized abortion can be used by rapists and molesters to cover up their crimes against young girls. But don't expect the feminists to care; you have to remember that their loyalty is to the institution of abortion, not to women and girls, no matter how many pretty and practiced lies escape their lips. A 37-year-old man who cannot be named by court order repeatedly raped his 12- and 13-year old stepdaughters over a three-year period. Judge Robert Higgenbotham noted that the stepfather used intimidation and threats to control the family. He impregnated one stepdaughter, forced her to have an abortion, and then blamed her for getting pregnant. The man was sentenced to 14 years in prison. The girls' biological mother also took part in some of the assaults. She was handed a three-and-a-half year prison sentence in July 2002. The older stepdaughter, who is now 17, says she's relieved. She now lives with her natural father, who says he too is a victim of the stepfather's crimes. Meanwhile, the younger stepdaughter is in foster care and is reported to be not doing well. She misses her mother and is having problems dealing with guilt and anger. Reference: "Stepfather Sent to Jail for Attacks." British Columbia Online News, February 24, 2003.

End of British Columbia Listing

(updated March 31, 2011)

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