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ABORTION RIGHTS
Roe v. Wade v. greed
BY ADAM REILLY

When abortion-rights supporters worry about threats to Roe v. Wade, they tend to focus on high-profile variables such as the Unborn Victims of Violence Act or upcoming Supreme Court appointments. But a new anti-abortion strategy that’s gone largely unnoticed by the mainstream and liberal media could ultimately prove just as important.

Late last year, an unnamed 18-year-old Oregon woman claiming malpractice sued the clinic where she’d received an abortion three years earlier; she received an order of judgment, and settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. "Jenny" — who was assisted by the Women’s Injury Network, Inc. — made her case by claiming severe emotional distress and arguing that the physicians and counselors she saw at the clinic never briefed her on the potential physical and psychological complications of abortion. Her case was, as the Women’s Injury Network notes on its Web site, the first abortion-malpractice case in the country to result in both judgment and settlement.

According to Michael Galloway, chair of the Bakersfield, California–based organization Your Catholic Voice, the Oregon case constitutes a new model for anti-abortion activity. (Galloway, who appointed former Boston mayor Ray Flynn as YCV’s president in 2003, is clearly quite smart, very conservative, and utterly committed to his cause.) "We can take the money out of abortion if we make it so expensive — if we file lawsuit after lawsuit for this kind of damage," Galloway cheerily explains. "Remember a few years back, when there were lawyers all over the TV asking people if they had asbestos claims? We’re going to use the same tactics. We believe we can get hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of women together by showing there’s a financial reward."

The ultimate goal, Galloway adds, is to make malpractice-insurance costs for abortion providers so prohibitive that they cease en masse to practice. To that end, Galloway has assembled a 10-million-person database of conservative Catholics he believes will help the cause, either by making donations or simply by spreading the word. "Organizations like Planned Parenthood prey on socially and economically distressed people," he says. "The reason why people have abortions is money. And the reason why they’re not going to have abortions is money. You’ve got to get them to understand the root."

Stay tuned.


Issue Date: February 18 - 24, 2005
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