Tomorrow, Saturday, September 12th, is the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children.
 
As I type that sentence I’m reflecting on how, not that long ago, God forgive me, I was firmly on the other side of the abortion issue. When I would see one of those roadside memorial displays of small crosses I would usually just shrug. Somehow I didn’t make the connection with the millions of lost lives that they represented. I realize now that I really didn’t want to make the connection.
 
Coming of age in the wake of the sexual revolution, like so many of my peers, I believed all the self-serving propaganda of the pro-choice movement. Woo-Hoo! Sex was suddenly supposed to be consequence-free. Why should anyone be “punished with a baby.”
 

But slowly, patiently, the Lord brought my heart around to the truth: life begins at conception; each fertilized egg is the beginning of a unique creation, a brand-new life; ending that life is murder, plain and simple.

September 12, 2015 will mark the the third annual remembrance day. Steven Ertelt at LifeNews explains the significance of this effort ~

The observance will be marked by simultaneous memorial services in cities from coast to coast at grave sites of aborted babies. This national observance is being coordinated by Citizens for a Pro-life Society, Priests for Life, and the Pro-life Action League. This is the first time in the history of legalized abortion that such nationwide memorials will be conducted and thousands of people from across the country are expected to participate.
 
Babies have been buried at dozens of locations after having been killed by abortion. Many of their bodied were retrieved from the actual trash bins of abortion clinics, or pathology labs where the bodies of the aborted unborn were shipped. Some graves have hundreds of bodies buried in them […]

Monica Miller, Director of Citizens for a Pro-life Society, stated, “Since 1973, 55 million innocent unborn children have been killed with the sanction of law. A fraction of these victims of the American slaughter were actually buried. 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. This year, the 40th year of legalized abortion, ceremonies will take place at all graves of these unwanted babies–and our nation will be called to remember and bring an end to the injustice of abortion.”

 
Ultimately the defiant pro-choice position – “MY body; MY choice” – is a selfish one. Abortion is punishing a baby (with death!) – for your own unfortunate choices.