From the ALL monthly Celebrate Life Magazine.
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Two Canadian pro-life activists, one a frail 63-year-old great-grandmother and the other a lively, 38-year-old former postulant to a religious order, spent some time together in August 2011—in jail. Both were imprisoned in the Vanier Centre for Women in Milton, Ontario, for offering counsel to clients of Toronto abortion facilities. They were both in the prison’s maximum security wing for a month and a half.
For Linda Gibbons, mother of four (counting a baby she aborted before becoming a Christian), grandmother of five, and great-grandmother of two, it was familiar territory. She had already been behind bars for nine years for counseling near abortion facilities.
Previously, Mary Wagner spent four months in Vanier in 2010 before being acquitted of mischief. To be in the same prison population with Linda is “a joy,” Mary told Celebrate Life from Vanier. “She has become like a mom to many of the women.”
Similarly, when speaking to Celebrate Life from the same prison, Linda said of Mary, “She’s a diehard; she’s an evangelical Catholic, whereas I’m an evangelical Protestant. She’s like Mother Teresa, a little Mother Mary.” To have Mary with her is “a blessing, a mutual fellowship.”
In early November 2011, when both were free, Linda passed out literature and prayed outside while Mary entered an abortion facility and was re-arrested. Later that month, Linda watched Mary’s arraignment.
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