Pro-life advocates will mark September 10 as a day of both celebration and mourning as they remember the 64 million unborn babies who were aborted under Roe v. Wade.

Saturday will be the first National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe and began allowing states to protect unborn babies again. At 213 locations across the U.S., pro-lifers plan to gather at grave sites and memorials for the millions of babies who were killed as a result of the infamous 1973 ruling.

“Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, it’s time to take stock of the deadly impact this ruling had on our nation over the past five decades,” said Eric J. Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League, one of the organizations sponsoring the event, in a statement to LifeNews.

The gatherings will include testimonies from women who regret their abortions, reflections by clergy of various faiths, music, prayer, mourning for aborted babies and celebration of the end of Roe.

Through the National Day of Remembrance, Scheidler’s organization, Priests for Life and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society want to remind Americans of the horrors of abortion. The graveside services expose how every abortion results in the death of an unborn child, and that child’s body must be gotten rid of by some means, whether incinerated or thrown in the trash, cut up for scientific experiments or, in some cases, buried…. (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)

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