Posted on 01/09/2015 5:42:30 AM PST by Teófilo
Brothers and Sisters: Peace be with you.
I've learned the following news from the Aleteia Catholic news portal:
Yesterday a rally took place outside the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw, Poland to protest the Christmas Eve incarceration of Canadian Mary Wagner. She is being held in the Vanier Centre for Women in Milton, Ontario, a medium/maximum security correctional facility.As a consequence, I've fired this e-mail to the Canadian Human Rights Commission:
Wagner was arrested for the crime of entering the waiting room of an abortion clinic on December 23—this time, the Bloor West Village Women’s Clinic in Toronto—and quietly offering individual women a rose with a card stating where they could learn about abortion alternatives and asking them if they wanted to talk about alternatives.
Canadian judges have shown hostility to Ms. Wagner. One Justice delivered a tirade that included “You’re wrong, and your God is wrong!” Another Justice referred to her “very stubborn streak” and turned down her request for public funding of her constitutional challenge, finding that it wasn’t in the public interest to challenge the law defining when a child becomes a human being by presenting scientific testimony demonstrating the humanity of unborn children. The Canadian press has been largely silent about the 40-year-old’s peaceful pro-life witness and imprisonments (totalling over three years).
Wagner has explained that her effort to speak to women about abortion alternatives is motivated by a desire to allay their fears about continuing the pregnancy by offering hope and real alternatives, to spare the lives of their children and spare them the suffering and remorse of having undergone an abortion, and also to challenge the erroneous definition of human being in the Criminal Code, a question that has never been presented to the Supreme Court of Canada. Wagner contends that Canada's Parliament exceeded its authority in excluding a class of children (the unborn) from its definition of human being in Section 223 of the Criminal Code of Canada.
A definition based on the scientific truth matters because under the self-defense laws of Canada, one can act, and even use force, to defend only the lives of “human beings” (living outside the mother’s body), but not human beings during the first nine months of their lives from conception to birth.
Mary Wagner was inspired by hearing St. John Paul II in Denver during World Youth Day in 1993, telling youth to not be afraid to witness to their beliefs in public. After college, she took up pro-life work, and later joined a contemplative order of nuns to discern if that was the vocation to which God was calling her. But after three or four years, she understood clearly that God wanted her to continue her pro-life witness in Canada.
I urge you to do the same. Write the Canadian Human Rights Commission at info.com@chrc-ccdp.gc.caDear Sir or Ma'am:I wish to protest the treatment Pro-Life Activist Mary Wagner has been receiving in the Canadian justice system. She's being held in the Vanier Centre for Women in Milton, Ontario, a medium/maximum security correctional facility, for the "crime" of entering the waiting room of Bloor West Village Women’s Clinic in Toronto on December 23 and quietly offering individual women a rose with a card stating where they could learn about abortion alternatives and asking them if they wanted to talk about alternatives.For this "crime" she's been berated by her judges, who also denied public assistance in her defense in the interest of not challenging Canadian law. The blatant partisanship shown by her judges compromises, in my opinion, the due process of law in her case, violating Ms. Wagner's human, civil, and political rights the Canadian constitution enshrines.The Right to Life is the first human right. It is a shame that the Canadian justice system is so biased against this Right and its defenders. I respectfully request your commission examines Mary Wagner's case in an unbiased manner and acts to restore her rights and freedom immediately.Most Respectfully,
Me
PING!
Free Dominion has been sued into non-existence.
Religious freedom is being stifled and suppressed.
Canada turned Left and will never look back.
I weep for the surviving conservative up there.
Should he do something? Isn’t there a legitimate space for us lay people to act?
“Should he do something? Isn’t there a legitimate space for us lay people to act?”
Pope Francis says things on all sorts of topics from gay cohabitation to Muslims being a great religion. This women is only guilty of following her conscience. It would be nice if he would defend her rights and the unborn.
And yes, lay people should act too. I hope the annual March to Life event takes up her cause.
“Muslims” meant to say “Islam” being a great religion.
https://www.change.org/p/peter-gordon-mackay-free-pro-life-activist-mary-wagner
+JMJ,
Theo
I met the Pro-Life activist Joan Andrews Bell in 1993 who as Joan Andrews spent time in prisons for her rescues at abortion clinics. She kindly autographed a book about her I had. She’s one of the holiest if not the holiest person I’ve ever had personal contact with. There was an aura of peace that came from her that’s hard to put into words. She appeared to have a one decade Rosary wrapped around one of her hands and seemed to be engaged in unceasing prayer. How providential that she was named “Joan” for she was like the Joan of Arc of the rescue effort.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, Teofilo. As a sidewalk counselor, I assure you that Mary will need and appreciate all our prayers and petitions.
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