Remember the suit against Joyce Arthur from many months ago?
First, we are delighted to announce – to our existing and prospective clients, community partners, and our donors – that pro-choice activist Joyce Arthur’s lawyer, and now BC Supreme Court Madam Justice Russell, have said that serious allegations in Ms. Arthur’s 2009 publication, Exposing Crisis Pregnancy Centres in British Columbia, do not apply to our charity or either of our charity’s CPCs in Vancouver and Burnaby.
Second, however, we are disappointed with the court decision dismissing our defamation claim against Joyce Arthur and members of the Pro-Choice Action Network for their publication (the “report”). Ms. Arthur succeeded in having our case dismissed without her being required to prove the truth of any of the allegations in her report concerning crisis pregnancy centres. The report remains posted on the internet.
Our Board of Directors will take some time to consider whether to appeal the decision dismissing our lawsuit.
Read more here. Read LifeSiteNews’ coverage here.
It’s a real pity that CPCs have to occasionally defend themselves against these types of allegations, when they should be able to invest 100% of their time doing the good, pro-woman and pro-life work that they do:
Notwithstanding our Board’s decision on this important matter, we will continue to do what we do best – serve our clients.
For example, Jessica (not her real name), who came to us the day she planned to commit suicide. Her husband previously beat her to cause a miscarriage. He was now coercing her to abort their second child or he would beat her again. With our help and our shelter, Jessica and her daughter are both alive.
For example, “Melody”, whose unborn child was of mixed race, so her parents demanded she abort or forever be cut off from her family. They followed through. And then there is “Heather”, seeking help for post abortion grief, referred to us by an abortion clinic. And also “Ali”, a refugee needing prenatal services and material support.
To date, our modest charity has helped over 16,000 women in crisis.
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Here is a link to Joyce Arthur’s report. It’s 65 pages long, so didn’t read all of it, but there are serious, serious misrepresentations of the prolife position in the first five pages. Note how the CPC for which the infiltrator volunteered is never named, so that, even if we wanted to check facts and see if there was a CPC operating according to these caricatured principles, we couldn’t.
On the other hand, the Pro-Choice Action Network is now defunct. It kind of seems to be a waste of time and resources to continue a lawsuit against a group that is no longer active. Would be nice if they would take their hit piece off the web, but it seems to me that perhaps a better (and far less expensive) course of action would be to keep cross-linking between “the report” and pieces debunking and mocking it for the drivel that it is, and, eventually, the algorithms of the Internet will end up associating “the report” with the slander that it is.
On the other hand, maybe they could get together an association of all the CPCs in BC, and then, at least, Joyce Arthur would be required to reveal her sources. Seems like an awful lot of effort to go after a defunct organization, but it would be awfully nice if we could get the Board of PCAN to either pay legal costs or take “the report” off the Internet.