CHICAGO - Next Tuesday, January 22, thousands of citizens at 265 sites across the nation will remember 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.
"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."
In Illinois, prolifers will gather at 32 different locations statewide:
ILLINOIS
- Memorial to the Unborn
- Fox River Bike Trail
- 1117 N. Washington Avenue
- Batavia, IL 60510
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for the Unborn
- Immaculate Conception Church
- 110 S. School Street
- Braidwood, IL 60408
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for the Unborn
- St. Thomas More High School
- 3901 N. Mattis Ave.
- Champaign, IL 61822
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for the Unborn
- St. Matthew Catholic Church
- 1303 Lincolnshire Dr.
- Champaign, IL 61821
- Map and Directions
- Memorial Marker for the Victims of Abortion
- St. Daniel the Prophet Parish
- 5300 S. Natoma
- Chicago, IL 60638
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for the Unborn
- Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church
- 245 S. Kankakee Street
- Coal City, IL 60416
- Map and Directions
- Memorial to the Unborn
- St. Zachary Church
- 567 W Algonquin Road
- Des Plaines, IL 60016
- Map and Directions
- Gravesite of Aborted Babies — GRAVESITE
- St. Mary Cemetery
- 87th Street and Hamlin Avenue
- Evergreen Park, IL 60805
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for Babies Lost to Abortion
- St. Anthony Parish
- 7659 West Sauk Trail
- Frankfort, IL 60423
- Map and Directions
- Sanctity of Life Memorial
- Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens
- 2514 Illinois 26
- Freeport, IL 61032
- Map and Directions
- Respect Life Garden
- St. Peter Church
- 1891 Kaneville Road
- Geneva, IL 60134
- Map and Directions
- Memorial of the Unborn
- St. Charles Borromeo Church
- 297 E. Jefferson Street
- Hampshire, IL 60140
- Map and Directions
- Memorial of the Unborn
- St. Joseph Parish
- 101 N. Church Street
- Harvard, IL 60033
- Map and Directions
- Gravesite of 5,000 Aborted Babies — GRAVESITE
- Queen of Heaven Cemetery
- 1400 S. Wolf Road
- Hillside, IL 60126
- Map and Directions
- Holy Innocents Garden
- Annunciation of the Mother of God Parish
- 14610 Will Cook Road
- Homer Glen, IL 60491
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for the Unborn
- St. Joseph Church
- 17951 Dixie Highway
- Homewood, IL 60430
- Map and Directions
- Our Lady of Tears Memorial
- Marytown
- 1600 West Park Avenue
- Libertyville, IL 60048
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for the Unborn
- Mundelein Seminary
- 1000 E. Maple Avenue
- Mundelein, IL 60060
- Map and Directions
- Memorial of Mourning for Victims of Abortion
- Ss. Peter and Paul Cemetery
- North Avenue and Columbia Street
- Naperville, IL 60540
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for the Unborn
- St. Patrick Cemetery
- Neoga, IL 62447
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for the Unborn
- St. Jude Church
- 241 West 2nd Avenue
- New Lenox, IL 60451
- Map and Directions
- Memorial Wall for the Unborn
- Queen of Peace Most Blessed Trinity Church
- 910 14th Street
- North Chicago, IL 60064
- Map and Directions
- Memorial Marker for the Unborn
- St. John Vianney Parish
- 46 North Wolf Road
- Northlake, IL 60164
- Map and Directions
- Shrine for the Unborn
- St. Alexander Elementary School
- 7025 West 126th Street
- Palos Heights, IL 60463
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for the Unborn
- Resurrection Cemetery
- 200 W. Romeo Road
- Romeoville, IL 60446
- Map and Directions
- Prayer Garden for the Unborn
- St. Joseph Church
- 114 Lincoln Avenue
- Round Lake, IL 60073
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for the Unborn
- St. Margaret Health Center
- 600 E. 1st Street
- Spring Valley, IL 61362
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for the Unborn
- St. Francis Cemetery
- Northern Row and County Rd. 19
- Teutopolis, IL 62467
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for the Unborn
- St. Mary Church
- 303 N Division St
- Utica, IL 61373
- Map and Directions
- Memorial Stone to the Unborn on Church Altar
- St. Joseph the Worker Church
- 181 West Dundee Road
- Wheeling, IL 60090
- Map and Directions
- Memorial for Unborn Babies
- St. Joseph Catholic Church
- 1747 Lake St.
- Wilmette, IL 60091
- Map and Directions
- Memorial to the Unborn
- Holy Angels Church
- 180 South Russell Avenue
- Aurora, IL 60506
- Map and Directions
