Linda Gibbons awaits arrest outside a Toronto abortion facility.
Posted on 10/01/2014 6:28:07 AM PDT by wagglebee
Linda Gibbons awaits arrest outside a Toronto abortion facility.
Editor’s note: Linda Gibbons has been in prison since an August 7 arrest in Toronto while she witnessed to life outside an abortion facility protected by an injunction. Her case goes to trial November 12. She wrote the following letter this month to explain her ongoing mission.
This article is a reflection on my ten years of bearing witness for life in front of Toronto's several abortuaries.
My intention is not an apology for the reason, cause or purpose I engage in civil disobedience against injunctions in place at these death mills; I've written on that previously. My presence is more than a challenge to unjust laws. My presence is a response to a distinctive human cry: the cry of Canada's aborted unborn.
The courts have not responded to that silent cry. Currently, the killing of one in four children continues unabated.
Neither has the majority of Canadian parliamentarians shed tears over lives lost to abortion. Instead, they have unequivocally condoned the killing and compelled a tranquilized populace into paying for it.
When the social messaging regarding inconvenient or complicated pregnancies is "try again next time" or "better off dead," it's not a statement of the human condition but rather of cultural conditioning that implies some lives are unworthy of living. It begs the question: How much is a life worth? Unborn lives then become commodified and put on a sliding scale of values; ignored are the deliberate crimes against Canada's own children.
What then should be a human response to the senseless attacks against babes in the womb? Essentially, the answer for me is simply to be there as one human being recognizes the endangered life of another, and to act in his or her defense. My presence is a plea for each child in jeopardy of being killed and the pamphlets I carry bear witness to the incontrovertible evidence of a child's earliest existence, evidence denied them in the mill.
My presence is to plead for the living and to pray for the dying. I am witness to a holocaust: vis a vis over four decades of bloodshed.
Given the status quo of abortion on demand, with no legal redress throughout the entire gestation and delivery period, some would question the point of insisting that life is a sacred trust from conception until natural death and a God-given right worthy of defending.
My actions publicly demonstrate my commitment to resist the abortuary's campaign of disinformation and to dissuade women from entering the killing centre.
For Christians, the failure to resist the practice of abortion makes a travesty of our faith. An empty sidewalk at the death centres and silence from the pulpits is scandalous when we are called to deliver those being dragged to death and those ready to be slain.
Not to take action contradicts God's will and purpose for life. With abortion mills scarring the land from one coast to another and a death count in the millions, it calls for serious searching of heart. Have I done all I could in the face of such human carnage?
Should cares and commitments to family hold me back? What is the price of loving God's unborn and not relinquishing the fight? I've weighed all of these. If the cost of loving and remaining with my family is the price of unborn blood, then the "cost of living" with family is too high. At what time, then, may I divest myself of the charge to defend life?
Imagine for a moment, in our world plagued with political unrest, the enemy coming to our towns and taking our children from us (as is happening in Iraq and Syria). Could we beg deliverance from God for our own when we were so reluctant to deliver His own babes in the womb threatened with death? When cares of the world distract and disturb, I'm reminded of the words of the Talmudic sage that Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor, quoted in his book, Open Heart:
"It is incumbent on you to love as if you were to die the next day.”
The love of God constrains me to love the unborn as if there were no tomorrow. I only have today and in it I am called according to His purpose to answer the unborn's long and unending cry for life.
I remain present in their service.
In the Lord, Giver of Life,
Linda
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Not to take action contradicts God's will and purpose for life. With abortion mills scarring the land from one coast to another and a death count in the millions, it calls for serious searching of heart. Have I done all I could in the face of such human carnage?
Ping.
If this is her calling, then she’s doing exactly what she is supposed to. But I have to ask: has she actually accomplished anything? Results matter. They’re not the only thing that matters, but they do matter.
Amazing and well-written letter.
This holocaust of babies will not change until hearts are changed. Pray for God to open hearts to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. And then how can they hear without someone to tell them?
I agree with you. Romans I.
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Even if the world ignores her actions, Here we all are, reading her words in the next country over. The Lord will recognize her sacrifice on Judgment Day. She wants to hear, "Well done, good and faithful servant," and is acting accordingly, without any promise of a reward in this life. In prison, she can still perform ministry. The souls of the many babies for whom she has prayed will be praying for her now from the other side.
Really, results in a person's lifetime are all that matter?
Moses died before reaching the Promised Land, did he accomplish anything?
The Apostles and many of the early Christians were martyred and it would be centuries before Christianity was allowed by the Roman Empire, did they accomplish anything?
John Brown was executed several years before slavery was abolished, did he accomplish anything?
The night before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King acknowledged that there was a difficult road ahead, did he accomplish anything?
It seems to me that history is full of people who didn't live to see the fruits of their labor.
Many of us believe that doing what is right matters and that it is wrong to not do what is right, regardless of the results.
Our Republic was founded by men who willingly pledged everything for what they believed in. None of them actually believed at the time that they could defeat the British, they all expected to be hung, but they were men of principle.
I hear your heart, and agree, but I must say, I’m not sure “well done good and faithful servant” is said to everyone with a good heart who does not use wisdom.
There’s a reason that Proverbs is in the Bible. There’s a reason it says a lot about practicality and reality and results. I’m not passing judgment on this woman’s actions, but I am questioning it.
I respect, but I have big questions about the clinic sidewalk protests. I’m not sure they save lives on net. I’m not. I’m not sure they cost lives on net either - but it’s worth asking.
“My actions publicly demonstrate my commitment to resist the abortuary’s campaign of disinformation and to dissuade women from entering the killing centre”
“For Christians, the failure to resist the practice of abortion makes a travesty of our faith. An empty sidewalk at the death centres and silence from the pulpits is scandalous ... when we are called to deliver those being dragged to death and those ready to be slain. ... Not to take action contradicts God’s will and purpose for life. ... Have I done all I could in the face of such human carnage?”
Whoa there Pharisee. Get down off your high horse slowly before you fall off and hurt yourself. Go back, read my post, then realize how absurd your statement above is. You were so quick to condemn, you forgot to comprehend. I clearly clearly clearly said results are not the only thing that matters. You see, I anticipated a self righteous response like yours in advance, and nevertheless, you stepped right in it.
Let me help you here.
I agree with what she says about the pulpits and so on. I simply asked is she accomplishing anything? Let me repeat, I ASKED - I did not state, I did not opine, I did not assume - I ASKED.
Thus, your response doesn’t make much sense.
one person at an abortuary is often enough to persuade one woman to turn away. Just the presence there is enough to confirm the doubts that the woman has in her mind.
The abortion workers know this because they see the disruption it causes to their work. Thus, the reason for the big fight over buffer zones, etc.
I don't recall soliciting your advice.
Go back, read my post, then realize how absurd your statement above is.
I have and I choose to stand by it.
You were so quick to condemn, you forgot to comprehend.
My comprehension is fine. I don't recall condemning you, I asked a series of questions and made several observations. If you took this as condemnation, perhaps your conscience is trying to tell you something.
I clearly clearly clearly said results are not the only thing that matters.
Yes, but you were sure to emphasize that results do matter to you.
You see, I anticipated a self righteous response like yours in advance, and nevertheless, you stepped right in it.
Really? You anticipated a debate with me on abortion and envision a scenario where you emerge the victor? That's very amusing.
I agree this happens, and that's fantastic. I also wonder, though, if a lot of young girls see the media coverage of these protests and harden their hearts towards the pro life movement - and then become abortion customers down the road. Again, this is just a theory. I would never profess to know it happens. That's why I said "net" savings of life.
So you are saying that I only look at results, and you are saying that results do not matter at all.
I would hate to have my name tied to those two absurd and ridiculous observations. And yet, you can’t wait to bathe even deeper in both lies.
What an amazing woman!
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