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Eighteen men and boys grinned and posed behind a gravestone in a small Ontario town on Nov. 2.

The words engraved on the tombstone say, “In memory of all victims of abortion.”

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The Belleville, Ont., chapter of the Knights of Columbus erected the black gravestone almost a week earlier in St. James Roman Catholic Cemetery in southwest Belleville.

Images of the Catholic fraternity’s monument posted on Facebook on Nov. 2 and Nov. 8 spread on the social media site, polarizing people across Canada.

The three images without captions gained almost 1,800 comments and more than 3,410 reactions. Sixty-six per cent of people reacted to the images with a “Haha” or “Love” while about 20 per cent responded with an “Angry” reaction.

“We’re not engaging in any sort of debate about it,” David Cameron, grand knight of the Belleville chapter, said in a phone interview.

“This is our belief and we don’t feel we’ve done anything wrong … it speaks for itself.”