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TORONTO, Ontario, December 17, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A scant two days after seeing her case pled before the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, famed pro-life activist Linda Gibbons was imprisoned once again in Toronto, following the same pattern of events that have seen her put behind bars for about nine of the past 17-plus years. The diminutive grandmother appeared outside the Morgentaler “Clinic” abortion site on Hillsdale Avenue about 9 a.m. on a cold Friday morning, walking back and forth on a public sidewalk with her trademark placard, “Why mom? When I have so much love to give.” She...

...I was caught in my own net the other day, asked to name my greatest living Canadian hero. Fortunately I was prepared for the question, and could answer immediately: Linda Gibbons. For those who have never heard of her -- her story is seldom mentioned in our media -- Linda is Canada's longest serving political prisoner. [....] Linda Gibbons, by contrast, has no prospect of release. She is a grandmother, age 62. Her crime was praying, publicly, inside the 60-foot "bubble" around a Morgentaler abortion clinic in Toronto. She also, on occasion, held up a placard reading, "Why, Mom, when...