Stratford school hosts radical anti-abortion display

St. Mike's, a Catholic high school in Stratford Ontario, has become the first high school to host a particularly graphic anti-abortion display:

Included with pictures of aborted babies were other images of death, including a lynching and the Nazi Holocaust during which six million Jewish people were slaughtered.

The display, belonging to an anti-abortion group called the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP), was set up near the building's main entrance yesterday. It was part of "pro-life events week" at the school.

GAP originally designed its display for post-secondary campuses and yesterday marked their first visit to a high school, said one of the three university students who organized it.

"The goal is basically challenging choice, challenging the message that abortion is OK," said Theresa Matters, who attends the University of Waterloo.

"We want to talk to people about the truth and we want to tell the truth. The truth is abortion is the killing of an innocent person."

Full-throated debate on the appropriateness of this kind of debate in a publicly funded high school in three, two, one . . .