(September 14, 2022 — Hastings, Nebraska)
In the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned, abortion has become a major issue in the 2022 midterm elections. Over a dozen states have enacted abortion bans, while other states are expanding abortion, and voters across the country are being bombarded with political ads on the abortion issue. But on Sunday, September 18, local residents will gather to remind the community that abortion is not just a political issue. They will be marking the tenth annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children with a memorial service at 2:30 PM at Parkview Cemetery, 1246 N Elm in Hastings. Attendees will gather at the Unborn Baby Memorial headstone, just to the left of the main cemetery circle drive.

“In the 49 years that Roe v. Wade was the law of the land, more than 64 million unborn children have suffered the violence of abortion,” said Amanda Frasier, one of the organizers of the Day of Remembrance in Hastings. “When you really stop to reflect on the real lives cut short by abortion, it is sobering. These tiny children were never born. Never learned to walk. Never had a first day of school. They were never even given names.”

Of the over 64 million victims of abortion since Roe v. Wade was handed down in 1973, only a tiny fraction have received a proper burial, at gravesites scattered throughout the country. But all of them will be mourned during memorial services at those gravesites and dozens of other memorial markers set up in their honor, like the one in Hastings.

The memorial service on Sunday will include an opening prayer by Rev. Micah Gaunt of Peace Lutheran Church in Hastings, followed by our Featured Speaker: Pastor Tom Murray of Juniata Community Church. We will also have a small balloon release, as well as directions on how to give a name to one of the millions of forgotten, aborted babies, who are never given the honor of a name.

The Day of Remembrance is being organized by three national pro-life groups—Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Priests for Life and the Pro-Life Action League—to humanize the unborn victims of abortion by raising awareness of their burial places. The bodies of tens of thousands of aborted children have been retrieved from trash bins, landfills and other locations and buried at more than 50 gravesites across the country.

The first annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children was held in September 2013 to mark the 25th anniversary of the burial of several hundred abortion victims in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Memorial services were held at 38 burial places of abortion victims nationwide, as well as scores of other memorial sites dedicated to these children. The Day of Remembrance is now held annually in September.