About the National Day of Remembrance
On
Saturday, September 9, 2017, Citizens for a Pro-Life
Society, Priests for
Life and the Pro-Life
Action League will co-sponsor the 5th annual National Day of Remembrance
for Aborted Children, calling on pro-life Americans to honor the gravesites of
our aborted brothers and sisters.
Solemn
prayer vigils will be conducted at these gravesites, of which there
are 51 across the United States, as well as at dozens of other sites dedicated
in memory of aborted children.
Day of Remembrance 2016
The
4th annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children was held on
Saturday, September 10 at 165 locations throughout the United States, with over
5,000 in attendance. See photos from some of the memorial services below:
Why
Visit the Gravesites of the Aborted Unborn?
When people become truly aware of the reality of
abortion, they can more easily cut through the lies by which some try to
justify it, and the natural apathy to which human nature is inclined. Even
pro-life people are thrust into a higher level of commitment and activism.
Touching this reality happens in various ways:
hearing a vivid description of the procedure, seeing diagrams of it or images
of aborted children, hearing a woman's personal testimony of regret over her
abortion.
This impact, whereby abortion no longer remains an
abstraction, can be brought to an even more profound level when experienced
during an event, such as the funeral for an aborted baby.
Tens of thousands of these children have been
retrieved and buried at gravesites across our country. The stories of how they
were killed, how they were found, and how they were buried, along with the
pictures and videos that document those events, are powerful tools to awaken
the consciences of our fellow citizens.
But while a funeral and burial for an aborted baby
may be a relatively rare event, the opportunity to visit the burial places and recall how
those children got there does not have to be rare—in fact, it shouldn't be.
Pro-lifers should be visiting these gravesites—and
other memorial sites dedicated to aborted babies—as a regular part of their
pro-life witness. That's what the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted
Children is all about.
An
Annual Event—and More
The first National Day of Remembrance for Aborted
Children was held in September 2013 on the 25th anniversay of the solemn burial
of the earthly remains of some 1,500 abortion victims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Over 100 memorial services were held across the United States, and it was clear
this should become an annual event.
The Day of Remembrance will be held annually on the
second Saturday in September. Dates for upcoming Days of Remembrance are as
follows:
- September 8, 2018
- September 14, 2019
- September 12, 2020
- September 18, 2021
- September 10, 2022
Pictures and videos from past Day of Remembrance
memorial services can be found on the National Day of Remembrance
Facebook page.
Pro-lifers are also encouraged to carry on the
spiritual mission of the Day of Remembrance througout the year by visiting a
gravesite of aborted children or other memorial site to offer prayers of
mourning for the victims of abortion. Find the site nearest you here.
During your visit, you may wish to pray one of the
following prayers prepared for the National Day of Remembrance:
- Prayer at a Gravesite or Memorial Site [PDF]
- Prayer or Mourning for Victims of Abortion [PDF]
- Prayer for Those who Have Lost a Child to Abortion [PDF]
By participating in the National Day of
Remembrance, visiting these solemn memorial places at other times of the year,
and spreading the word about this prayer campaign, you are helping to humanize
our aborted brothers and sisters and deepening your own commitment to ending
the injustice of abortion.
INTERNET SOURCE: http://abortionmemorials.com/
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National Day of
Remembrance on September 9 Helps Us Remember Abortion Kills People
Opinion Eric Scheidler Sep 8,
2017 | 6:49PM Washington, DC
The
response of the American people to the devastation of Hurricane Harvey last
month shows us at our best. From giving generously to hurricane relief funds,
to traveling from afar to join search and rescue efforts, the American people
have come together to help the victims of this historic natural disaster.
But it
wasn’t only the hurricane’s survivors that inspired this kind of compassionate
response. Every effort has been extended to find the bodies of those who didn’t
make it. We have a deep human need to bury our dead, to memorialize their
lives, and to visit their burial places over the months and years that we
grieve for them.
This same
human instinct will bring thousands of Americans out this weekend to
memorialize the victims of another great human tragedy. On Saturday, September
9, at more than 170 cemeteries and church grounds throughout the United States,
solemn prayer vigils will be held in observance of the fifth annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted
Children [http://abortionmemorials.com/]. Many of these memorial services
will be held at gravesites across the country where the remains abortion
victims have been buried.
On the
Day of Remembrance, pro-life activists will tell their stories of recovering
the bodies of abortion victims from dumpsters and pathology labs, and fighting
to give them a proper burial—sometimes even being sued by abortion providers in
the process. Mothers and fathers who regret choosing abortion will share their
testimonies. Grieving parents and grandparents will publicly mourn for the
children they have lost.
All those
taking part in these Day of Remembrance services have found within themselves a
sympathy for the unknown, unnamed victims of legal abortion—a sentiment not so
different from that which is moving the entire country to mourn for the victims
of Harvey right now. We hear the names of Texans being added to the death
toll—and though perfect strangers to most of us, our hearts break over all the
suffering caused by this natural disaster.
But the
victims of the unnatural disaster of abortion don’t even have names for us to
remember. They have no legacy we can honor. Their taste of this life was so
very short. Even their deaths were hidden from sight, their bodies discarded as
medical waste.
And yet,
on the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children this Saturday, we
recognize that—just like the victims of Harvey—all the unborn victims of
abortion were our brothers and sisters. The child aborted at 8 weeks whose
perfectly formed feet will never take a first step.
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The child
aborted at 15 weeks whose only baby picture is a “graphic” image on a pro-life
poster. The nearly 60 million children we will never know, but whose brief,
hidden lives still matter to us.
And as we
mourn for them, we will pray that the same capacity to sympathize with
strangers from afar, so wonderfully exemplified by our fellow Americans these
past few weeks, will one day be extended to all our unborn brothers and
sisters—that one day we will come together as a nation to mourn for the unborn
victims of abortion.
LifeNews Note: Eric Scheidler is the executive director of the Pro-Life Action League, a national
pro-life education and activism organization based in Chicago.
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