The diminutive 64-year-old grandmother was arrested by three police officers June 11 while protesting outside a Morgentaler abortion facility in Toronto. Two sherifs and two security guards were also at the scene.

She was arrested while walking quietly on the sidewalk carrying a large poster that read: “Why Mom? When I have so much love to give.”

Gibbons has repeatedly ignored a 1994 temporary court order that prohibits demonstrations outside the clinic.

In an interview days before her latest arrest, Gibbons said she felt compelled to uphold God’s law when it comes to protecting the life of unborn children. “If God’s law is not upheld, we cannot just go along to get along.”

For us to do nothing is “rank disrespect” for God’s law, she said.

Gibbons chided the churches for not being vocal enough in their opposition to abortion.

“When the secular society looks at the Church they say, ‘You know what? They really don’t have a big problem with this,’ ” she said.

If I do nothing it looks like I’m comfortable with it, she said. “We should look like we’re very uncomfortable with it and it’s not business as usual.”

Asked if she had any anxiety about possibly being arrested again and sent back to prison for continuing to take a stand against abortion, Gibbons said: “God will not take you where He will not be.”