Linda Gibbons: Pro-Life heroine of Canada

If you've read my post about heroes and the accompanying article, you already know about pro-life heroine-grandmother Linda Gibbons. She's spent eight of the last sixteen years in jail for violating Canada's unjust laws against demonstrating outside abortion mills. This courageous woman deserves to be better known outside Canada.

I urge you during Lent to pray and sacrifice in solidarity with Linda who has united herself so closely to the persecuted Son of God. Her case goes before the Supreme Court of Canada next December. In the meantime she'll be in court on another matter in April. But she remains incarcerated because she refuses to go along with a bail condition to stay away from the abortion mills. Please pray for justice for Linda and for all those who defend the rights of the babies.

Want to thank Linda for her witness?

Linda Gibbons
Vanier Center for Women
655 Martin Street, Box 1040,
Milton, Ontario
L9T 5E6, Canada

And here are mailing guidelines for prison mail per a friend of hers:

1. Don’t use stickers (address, return address, pro-life) on the envelope or card.

2. Don’t send any laminated cards, bookmarks, prayer cards, pro-life pamphlets. Non-laminated items will get to her.

3. Don’t ask direct questions about daily activity of the detention centre.

4. Put your address directly in the card or letter. (Sometimes the mail sorter keeps the envelope and Linda feels badly if she can’t write back.)

5. If you would like to send a monetary gift to Linda it must be a money order made out to “Linda Gibbons.” The detention centre will deposit the money directly to her account. She uses any donations for envelopes and stamps.

6. Many people add a variety of Christian reading material in their mailings to her. She often shares articles with others in the Centre. She can receive pro-life material that show the development of the baby but not post-abortion photos. She can’t receive books. Try to stick to one or two pages of reading materials or pamphlets.

Read more:


Linda Gibbons to get a hearing before the Supreme Court of Canada
Final arguments in Gibbons abuse of process hearing

Who Are Your Heroes?

A friend sent me an interesting article (which you can read after the break) with what I think is an important question -- Who are your heroes? 

How would you answer that question? Would you pick one of the contestants on American idol? A famous historical figure? A religious leader? Your grandfather?

What makes someone a hero?

I hope you'll discuss this in the comment section. As the author of the article states, "I learn things about a person I might otherwise have missed. Better, I may get a view into the best side of that person: the side that is aspiring, morally, upward."

So what do you look for in a hero? And who are your heroes this Lent?

Linda Gibbons is Out of Jail in Canada, praise God!

If you don't know who Linda Gibbons is, you should. She's Canada's Joan Andrews squared. Linda has spent the last eight years in jail because she won't stay away from abortion mills where she warns women about the devastating consequences of killing their babies. Here's some background on this courageous white martyr. Chances are she won't be out of jail for long. Please pray for her and for those to whom she witnesses. How many will be saved from the fires of hell by her actions -- both those she meets and those for whom she suffers?

Breaking: Prisoner of conscience Linda Gibbons freed from jail

Linda Gibbons is Back in Jail!

Linda Gibbons, the Canadian pro-lifer who has spent eight of the last seventeen years in prison, is back in jail. She violated an injunction by walking on the sidewalk within the "bubble zone" at an abortion mill run by infamous abortionist Henry Morgentaler. This petite grandmother is relentless in her determination to love the babies by standing with them where they are being murdered and offering assistance to their mothers. Would that we all had the zeal of this courageous hero of the unborn. It is amazing to me to watch the parade of police surrounding and arresting Linda "who opened not her mouth." Pray and fast for an end to abortion and won't you please go, at least occasionally, to our modern-day Calvary where Jesus is being crucified in his least ones? For past posts on Linda go here.

Guest Post: Dr. King’s Response to Those Who Fear Red Rose Rescues

We welcome our guest author today who is writing about the "Red Rose Rescues" a peaceful movement to offer mothers in abortion centers the support to carry their babies to term. These peaceful pro-lifers go into the abortion facilities and give the mothers red roses, the symbol of precious babies in the womb, with a promise of assistance and a list of resources. Please read and share. Only when we begin to act like abortion is the tragedy it is and are willing to risk our own lives and freedom for the little ones and their moms will things change. The sacrifice of those who stand in unity with the infants, the tiniest of God's least ones, is the yeast that will leaven the culture of life and make it grow and spread. God bless all the dear ones participating in the Red Rose Rescues! I pray for the courage and energy to rejoin the rescue movement personally.

by Richard Cowden Guido

For reasons not overly obscure the Orwell memory hole of our era has chosen to bury the most extensive and popular expression of non-violent civil resistance in American history: it nonetheless remains that in terms of incidents, arrests, and incarceration no other social struggle against injustice in this country comes remotely close to the movement that began even before Roe v. Wade, and came to be known as Operation Rescue.

Yet while it has never died out altogether, the popular quality that saw nearly 100,000 Americans arrested for rescue between 1988 and 1991 faded for numerous reasons by 1992:

Imagine if Every Priest Were Arrested for Rescuing his Tiniest Parishioners!

Imagine this sign on the church door: "No Mass today. Father is in jail for defending the lives of God's littlest ones by order of the bishop who was arrested first!" 

Pro-life priest arrested for locking Planned Parenthood entrance in abortion ‘harbor’ New York