This Pro-Life Grandma is Behind Bars For Encouraging Women Not to Have Abortions
Canadians have largely forgotten the whole abortion issue; it barely qualifies as an issue anymore. There’s no criminal law prohibiting abortion in this country, and in most provinces, though access remains unequal, the procedure is covered by provincial health plans. Even Pope Francis has loosened the dispensation that can be given to Catholics who have had an abortion; any old priest can do it.
Those, like Gibbons, who still care about abortion, are profoundly unfashionable, regarded as cranks. Perhaps that’s why she’s also probably the country’s most ignored serious criminal.
But for a handful of people — unusually, the National Post was there to watch and Gibbons had several supporters on the sidelines — her arrest proceeded quietly and without fuss....
Dr. Mark Allison | 1/20/2013
