Two Anti-abortionists that were awarded the Queen's Diamond
Jubilee medal have been compared to American civil rights leader Martin Luther
King by Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott.
The pair have spend time in jail for violating injunctions
in front of abortion clinics and breaching court orders. One them is currently serving time in prison.
Vellacott is aggressively defending his decision to award Mary
Wagner and Linda Gibbons with the medals. In a letter to the media he stated
that:
"Unlike the justice minister, Vellacott was unable to
award these medals to the victims of crime, because these baby victims are
dead, so instead the award to those 'heroines of humanity' Mary Wagner and
Linda Gibbons who are trying to protect defenceless, voiceless human beings in
the womb from butchery and death, and trying to let vulnerable women know that
there are other options and support and adoption possibilities ……It's a pretty
upside down world when we honour abortionists like Henry Morgentaler for
killing over 5,000 babies and imprison precious women, like Mary Wagner and
Linda Gibbons, who try to save babies from such savagery. They are the real
heroes of humanity!"
The Governor General’s Office has stated that each MP has their
own criteria for awarding the medals. Federal Justice Minister Rob Nicholson
told the CBC that his own allotments of medals have been handed out to victims
of crime.
This is not the first controversy regarding the medals. Some
Quebec MPs returned their Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee medals in protest
of the federal government's spending on monarchy celebrations.
60,000 Queen's Diamond Jubilee medals handed out this year,
Members of Parliament were give 30 medals each to award to their constituents. The
medals are intended to mark “significant achievements” by Canadians.
What do you think? How black and white is this issue? Are
these women crusaders through non-violence or criminals who do deserve to be recognized?
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