…and stays there because she won’t agree to the conditions of her release. Mary Wagner is being held in the same centre as Linda Gibbons.
Read about this, here.
I don’t know Mary. I don’t know Linda. But this sort of courage of conviction impresses me greatly.
And let the record stand: That’s 3 pro-lifers (I’m aware of) in jail across this great land. (Two for peaceful protest/prayer/counsel near or in clinics, one for refusing to pay taxes.)
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I began corresponding with Linda Gibbons over a year ago, when LifeSite requested that people write to her Christmas 2008. We have kept up an ongoing correspondence since, and perhaps one day I will publish her letters!
Linda is a quiet, peaceful woman who is very convicted of her beliefs. She herself had an abortion many years ago, before she became a Christian, and did not realise what that really meant until she had her conversion.
Her goal in picketing outside abortion clinics is to prevent other women making the same mistake. However, she refuses to accept bail because the conditions of her bail are that she will consent to never picket outside any clinic in Ontario for the rest of her life. That price is too high, and she refuses to allow the government to stifle her “freedom of speech.”
Some would say that she has no free speech in jail, but the very fact that she is willing to go to jail for her convictions will speak loud and clear, perhaps not now, but in days to come. While in jail, she witnesses to her beliefs to other prisoners and she has convinced some pregnant prisoners not to have abortions. Plus she runs Bible studies in jail.
For the tiny little lady that she is, she has immense backbone. I think of her as the Solzhenitzyn of Canada and consider myself very fortunate to get to know her a little better.