All Babies Lost to Abortion - St John's, NFLD, Canada - Citizen Memorials on Waymarking.com

Prominently installed near the main entrance to the grand St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in St. John's. Newfoundland, this stone memorial serves to remember "all babies lost to abortion". Installed May 9th, 1997 by the Knight's of Columbus, specifically the E.P. Roche Assembly 2028 and the Archbishop Howley Assembly 0623, both members of the Terra Nova Council.

According to one source, 1997 represented an all-time high in abortions performed in Canada, with 111,526 reported abortions.
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In the USA, 1,186,039 legal abortions were reported to CDC
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By contrast, 3.9 million births were reported in the USA in 1997. In other words, in the USA in 1997, nearly 25% of children conceived were aborted.

The text on the memorial reads:

FOR ALL BABIES LOST TO ABORTION
MAY THEY REST IN PEACE
E.P. Roche Assembly 2028
Archbishop Howley Assembly 0623
May 9, 1997

Location: St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church Website with more information on either the memorial or the person(s) it is dedicated to: Not listed

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