This Tuesday, January 22, thousands of citizens across the nation will be marking a tragic anniversary with prayer and visits to hundreds of memorial sites. They will be remembering the lives of the over 55 million children killed by abortion in the United States since the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
Event Details
What: Memorial visits and prayers of mourning for the unborn victims of abortion
When: Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Where: Hundreds of memorial sites dedicates to the unborn victims of abortion sites indexed by state at prolifeaction.org/mourn.php
More information: prolifeaction.org/hotline/2013/mourn
On the 40th Anniversary of the court ruling that legalized abortion throughout the United States, the Pro-Life Action League is coordinating a nationwide prayer campaign, "Blessed Are They Who Mourn."
"We cannot not let the brief lives of abortion's innocent victims to be utterly forgotten," said Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League. "As a nation we have been mourning for the twenty precious children massacred at Sandy Hook Elementary School last month. Now we're calling on our nation to reflect on the profound loss of all the millions of children aborted since 1973, and mourn for them, too -- children whose names and faces will never be on the evening news, but whose lives were just as precious."
Scheidler said that "Blessed Are They Who Mourn" is inspired, in part, by the words of Pope Benedict XVI, who has called mourning a "shattering encounter with truth, which leads men to undergo conversion and to resist evil."
For a list of 265 sites in 41 states, including 24 grave sites, visit prolifeaction.org/mourn.php.
Source: Pro-Life Action League
