 The article noted that she had obstructed police and disobeyed court orders, and that she sometimes carried a plastic replica of a human fetus outside abortion clinics.A 1997 article in "The Globe and Mail" noted that Gibbons would usually resume her illegal protests within days of being released, leading each time to another arrest and conviction.Gibbons has described herself as a political prisoner and has described abortion as "a crisis as much as black slavery was."