Mary Wagner (Canada)

Mary Wagner (born 1974) is a Canadian anti-abortion advocate who has served prison sentences for entering abortion clinics to counsel mothers against abortion without consent of the facility staff.
Biography.
She protested in private abortion clinics in Toronto. Wagner was arrested for the first time in 2012. Following a nearly two-year-long trial, Judge Fergus O'Donnell found Wagner guilty of the charges, sentencing her to nine-month imprisonment and a two-year probationary limitation on being around abortion clinics. 
On December 23, 2014, after entering the Bloor West Village Women's Clinic abortion facility in Toronto she was arrested again and charged with disruption of business operations.
In 2015, Wagner argued in court that violating her probation order by entering an abortion clinic and distributing anti-abortion materials to patients was a necessity in order to protect the lives of unborn children. Wagner's necessity defence was rejected by the court and upheld on appeal.
In April 2016, Wagner was released from prison after serving a sentence for counselling women at a clinic.
On December 12, 2016, Wagner was detained once again inside the abortion center in Bloor West Village on the day she effectively discouraged one of the women from aborting. She was charged and sentenced to 9 months of imprisonment.
In August 2017 public Polish TV reported that Wagner's mother appealed to Poles to send letters supporting Wagner to a Canadian judge who was considering appropriate sentencing for Wagner. In September 2017, Polish right-wingers staged a demonstration in support of Wagner in front of the Canadian Embassy in Warsaw.
Political support.
In 2012, Canadian Conservative Member of Parliament Maurice Vellacott presented a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal to Wagner. Some 60,000 medals were handed out, with each member of Parliament allocated thirty medals to disburse as they saw fit. Vellacott protested the honoring of Henry Morgentaler and hailed Wagner as a "hero of humanity". Interim liberal leader Bob Rae criticised the award as potentially illegal incitement.