- 55 Million Dead
- 40 Years Later
- One Day to Honor Those Killed by Abortion

National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children

TOMORROW - September 14, 2013 (details below)

Contact: Tom Ciesielka, 312-422-1333, tc@tcpr.net

CHICAGO, Sept. 13, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ -- Losing a child is a terrible thing. Losing a child at the hands of a doctor is incomprehensible. And that's what makes the National Day of Remembrance for September 14, 2013 necessary. This solemn event will memorialize tens of thousands of children killed by abortionists and buried at gravesites around the nation -- a tiny fraction of the 55 million children killed by abortion since it was legalized in 1973. Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Priests for Life, and the Pro-Life Action League are coordinating this day to heighten awareness that every abortion results in the death of an innocent child, create an appropriate outlet for both personal and national grief, and pray for an end to abortion. Details on the event are available at AbortionMemorials.com.

The National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children is set for September 14 to mark the 25th anniversary of the burial of several hundred abortion victims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Solemn prayer vigils will be conducted at the Milwaukee gravesite, as well as 34 other burial sites, as well as dozens of other memorial sites dedicated to the unborn victims of abortion. There are hundreds of such sites across the country.

"The graves of these victims are scattered across America -- graves of sorrow and graves of indictment on a nation that permitted the killing of the innocent," observed Monica Miller, Co-Director of National Day of Remembrance and Director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society. The gravesites stretch across the country from Riverside, California, to Wilmington, Delaware -- including a grave in Los Angeles containing the remains of 16,000 aborted babies.

Eric Scheidler, Co-Director of National Day of Remembrance and Executive Director of the Pro-Life Action League, lives near the Chicago-area Queen of Heaven Cemetery where 2,000 tiny abortion victims were buried in 1988 by Cardinal Joseph Bernadin, then prelate of the Archdiocese of Chicago. "It's sobering to realize that these grave markers for the unborn victims of abortion list only a date of burial," Scheidler remarked, "They have no birthdays because they were never allowed to be born."

In a time when thousands of abortions are legally performed each year on children of the same gestational age that neonatal surgeons work to save, National Day of Remembrance coordinators look to this project to emphasize the humanity of unborn children. Fr. Frank Pavone, Co-Director of National Day of Remembrance and National Director of Priests for Life, declared, "Having a memorial service where these babies are buried reminds us that abortion is not merely about beliefs, but about bloodshed; not just about viewpoints, but victims."

For more information about the National Day of Remembrance or to locate September 14 events at burial sites or other memorial sites, visit AbortionMemorials.com.