Today I write to appeal to your conscience!
There are 2 ladies who have been called to fight the good fight in a way that some of us may find radical.
Linda Gibbons and Mary Wagner are currently imprisoned at the Vanier Center for Women in Milton, Ontario, Canada, simply because they seek to remind all of us that abortions hurt women and kills babies.
According to an article posted at LifeSiteNews, Mary Wagner was arrested in March 2010 for speaking with women, workers and even the owner of an abortuary. What is her crime? It appears that in her effort to show compassion to those who are facing a very desperate and difficult decision, she has broken some law or infringed on someone’s right.
Linda Gibbons is a pro-life Grandmother who has already suffered more than 7 years in prison for her peaceful pro-life witness. All she does is walk outside a Toronto abortion clinic with a sign that reads “Why Mom when I have so much love to give” She speaks to the women who willingly chose to speak with her, she does not infringe on anyone, but she is giving the unborn babies a voice.
How many more individuals will be jailed for this before we as a society, as a country recognize that we are all responsible for the 300+ murders that happen every day in the abortion clinics?
When a women feels that she has no other option but to turn her womb, which is the starting point for the miracle of life, into a slaughter house, who is to blame?
We can all point fingers outward in different directions, but we all must realize as it was once said, all that is needed for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
Haven’t we done ‘nothing’ long enough?
When a woman makes this desperate decision it’s because we as a society have failed her. She is scared of the unknown, and fears judgement from her peers. She doesn’t feel supported, and doesn’t know where to turn.
These two women, Mary Wagner and Linda Gibbons have shown great courage and great compassion in reaching out to those women who feel desperate and alone; attempting to show them that there is another option. While many of us may not feel called to lay down our lives for this cause as Linda and Mary have, we can and should support their fight.
Join in prayer and then write to the Premier, Attorney General and the Ministry of Health. Let them know how you feel, urge them to stop the injustice being done to these two women.
We are treating them the same way the townspeople treated Jesus when he cured the two demoniacs in the town of Gadarenes – Matthew 8:28 – 34. It makes us uncomfortable and brings us face to face with the consequences of our sinfulness, so we would rather be rid of the radical healer and supernatural lover of justice so we want to send them away from our district.
Let us not be like the townspeople in today’s Gospel, but instead be like St. Paul and join in the good fight, so that one day when we celebrate Canada Day and sing our national anthem we will be able to sincerely sing “the true north strong and free” For until we are a country that values life from conception to natural death, we will not be strong nor free.
God Bless!
