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TORONTO, July 26, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Prayer by World Youth Day Pilgrims over sixty feet away from a Toronto abortuary is driving the abortuary staff delusional.  Beginning Tuesday WYD pilgrims have taken time, sometimes up to five hours, to pray silently in a Park across the street from a Toronto abortuary.  However the reaction by the abortion clinic as reported by the media is frenetic.  “There is the feeling that these people, because they carry a rosary, because they are kneeling, because they call themselves Catholics, that they’re entitled to do this,” clinic manager Maria Corsillo said. “These people are afforded a latitude that is not afforded to anyone else,” she said. “Religion and prayer can be quite deadly weapons in the wrong hands,” she added. “There’s a way to terrorize that has nothing to do with guns, and there’s a way to intimidate that has nothing to do with violence.”  About 50 members of the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics stood guard outside the abortuary supposedly to protect it from the youth kneeling in prayer across the street.  See the coverage from the Globe and Mail:  https://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/GIS.Servlets.HTMLTemplate?current_row=12&tf=tgam/search/tgam/SearchFullStory.html&cf=tgam/search/tgam/SearchFullStory.cfg&configFileLoc=tgam/config&encoded_keywords=abortion&option=&start_row=12&start_row_offset1=0&num_rows=1&search_results_start=11&query=abortion