12th annual Day of Remembrance for Aborted Babies seeks to humanize tragedy of abortion, pray for those killed
SOUTHFIELD — With two months to go before a major election, abortion ads are everywhere. It’s a topic in debates, a plank in party platforms, a political football.
But for at least one afternoon each year, local pro-life advocates hope to remind the public that abortion isn’t an abstract policy idea — it’s a real tragedy that has real victims.
On Saturday, Sept. 14, hundreds will gather across Michigan at the gravesites of aborted babies to pray, remember and intercede for those who have lost their lives.
The National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Babies will take place at more than 200 locations nationwide, including five memorial services in Michigan. The annual event, co-founded in 2013 by two pro-life organizations, aims to humanize the issue of abortion by reminding families of the real consequences of policies that allow the destruction of unborn life.
“The goal of the abortion industry is to hide the violence of abortion, to indeed hide the truth that unborn children even exist,” said Monica Migliorino Miller, co-founder of the Michigan-based Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, one of the co-founding organizations along with the Pro-Life Action League. “Abortion is designed to keep the unborn hidden and forgotten. When we stand at the graves of the aborted unborn, we witness to their humanity and in a small way we reverse the injustice of the killing of the innocent.”
Each year, memorial services take place at the gravesites of aborted babies, many of whose bodies were recovered from garbage containers near abortion clinics before they were given a proper burial.
A memorial service will take place at 3 p.m. near the gravesite of 37 aborted babies in the “Holy Innocents” section of Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Southfield. The bodies of those infants were recovered from an abortion clinic in Lathrup Village in 2008, and from the trunk of a West Bloomfield abortionist’s car in 2015.
Other memorials will take place at the gravesites of aborted babies at Assumption Grotto Parish Cemetery in Detroit (1 p.m.), White Chapel Cemetery in Troy (1 p.m.), Holy Spirit Parish Cemetery in Brighton (10:15 a.m.), and St. Joseph Cemetery in Lansing (9 a.m.).
“The unborn are the unwanted, named ‘non-persons’ under the law, abandoned fellow human beings, literally relegated to the trash,” Miller said. “Yet the killing looks so darn normal, when really we are standing on a pile of dead bodies. The memorial services are a small way that we can honor the unwanted, where we can stand up in a public way and witness to the sanctity of human life, call our nation to reality and end the killing of the unborn.”
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