Some members of Mother of Mercy Catholic Church in Washington, exhibiting their belief that all human life is sacred, participated in the fourth-annual National Day of Remembrance of Aborted Children at St. Peter Catholic Church in Greenville on Sept. 10.

The church was one of 150 sites across the nation that conducted memorial services for babies lost to abortion. The observance in Greenville included prayers, including a prayer at the Memorial to the Unborn.

Several memorials to aborted babies are located throughout North Carolina, according to Carol Montgomery, a member of Mother of Mercy Catholic Church. The Pro-Life Action League’s website provides a list of such memorials across the nation.

“Basically, what we had was an event for people to support the unborn. There were a lot of mothers there with children. In fact, one mother told — ‘I know a girl who got pregnant. She was like in her fifth or sixth month. The doctor told her the baby was going to be terribly deformed because there was something wrong with it. … He said she should abort it right now because she’d have too many medical problems.’ She says, ‘Well, the woman didn’t believe it.’ She said he woman went ahead and had the baby. She says, ‘The baby was born perfectly healthy — because it was my daughter,’” Montgomery said.

That baby, now about 3 years old, is doing fine, she added.

“This one here tells about an aborted baby found wrapped in shower curtain in a landfill in Tarboro, North Carolina. They buried the baby at St. Pete’s. That’s why we have that memorial,” said Montgomery, referring to literature regarding the “I had a dream …” memorial at the church in Greenville. That body was buried in rural Beaufort County, according to the literature.

In Newton Grove, the bodies of 157 aborted babies from North Carolina are buried. Pro-life organizations discovered the bodies of at least 5,000 babies were shipped to a pathology lab in Northbrook, Illinois, where they were left in boxes to be transported by a waste incinerator company to an incinerator for burning, according to the literature. The boxes containing the bodies were shipped by parcel post and had the return addresses on them.

A funeral for those babies was held at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Raleigh before being buried at Our Lady of Guadalupe in Newton Grove, where the Marian Shrine of the Unborn is located. “Churches from North Carolina paid for them to come up here and put up a shrine,” Montgomery said.

Montgomery said she and others who believe as she does consider abortion wrong. “Even if it isn’t against God, it’s against nature. You just don’t kill your own,” she said.