A woman’s strategy to deal with an anti-abortion demonstration in front of a Peterborough Catholic high school had her baring her breasts in front of both protesters and students.

On Thursday, June 6, protesters from the group Choice42 were travelling around to Peterborough high schools to demonstrate against abortion. They held anti-abortion signs, some featuring text while others showed graphic images claiming to show aborted fetuses.

Two Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School students were in the midst of debating protesters over abortion and the graphic nature of their signs when a woman walked up.

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Holding a sign which read “Can’t feed it? Don’t breed it!” she then took off her shirt and held her sign above her. A few moments later both the protesters and students walked away, heading to their cars and to the school, respectively.

The topless woman followed the protesters to their cars and then returned to the street corner at Lansdowne Street at Clonsilla Avenue before putting her shirt back on.

Students who witnessed the scene shouted at the woman “this is a (expletive) Catholic school, go away.”

A woman’s strategy to deal with an anti-abortion demonstration in front of a Peterborough Catholic high school had her baring her breasts in front of both protestors and students. (Taylor Clysdale / Torstar)

The woman responded by saying “you’re welcome by the way.”

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“You’ve never seen t**s before? You did know it’s your right to show them, right?” the woman added.

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Rosemary Connell, one of the protesters who has demonstrated in front of other high schools in the past, says they brought the graphic signs to the school because “we find the visual truth of baby killing is very powerful.”

Connell says she “didn’t see the impact” of the woman baring her breasts. Compared to adults, she said young people respond more positively to the protests and are more willing to debate the topic.