VANCOUVER—A pro-life activist is enjoying freedom after spending almost two years in an Ontario prison.

Mary Wagner was found guilty of mischief and failure to comply with probation orders, and then freed because the time she had already spent in jail was longer than her sentence.

"People asked why I was there, why I was in jail. Immediately I had the chance to share the truth about the wound of abortion," Wagner said after her release June 12.

She was arrested Aug. 12, 2012, after entering the Women's Care Clinic in Toronto and offering roses and counselling to women who were there to abort their babies.

Wagner refused to accept bail with the condition of staying away from abortion clinics. After the two-year trial, she was sentenced to five months in jail for mischief and four months for breaching her probation order.

"As a matter of reason, a child is the same human being one second before birth and one second after being born alive," argued her lawyer, Charles Lugosi.

"What matters is scientific truth, free from corrupt and biased thought that seeks reasons to justify the death of an innocent child."

He pointed out Wagner had a right to freedom of conscience and religion when she entered the abortion clinic and tried to save the lives of unborn children.

Justice Fergus O'Donnell denied a request for Wagner's request for public funding and barred two expert witnesses from testifying to the humanity of the unborn.

"I have decided that no purpose would be served by having an evidentiary hearing on Ms. Wagner's Charter application, and that, in the current state of the law, it has no possibility of success," he wrote.

Upon her release, Wagner said her first priorities were to go to Mass and visit her family in Nanaimo. She has said she will appeal the decision.