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Pro-lifers have been gearing up all week, if not longer for ways to publicly show their disapproval of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion 37 years ago today.

Since I have a sister born the same year, I always wonder how many classmates she didn’t get to meet and friends she never had the chance to make as a result. Students across the country often wonder the same thing. Some schools deliberately place empty desks in the classroom on days like today. I remember reading about one middle school in June that placed an empty chair at graduation.

Students in the Right to Life Club placed 1,700 crosses in the school yard this week. That represents only half of unborn children killed each day by abortion.

Other schools visually show the grave loss by abortion through public memorials, often symbolized by blue and pink flags or white crosses in the school yard. The students at Xavier college Preparatory, fall among the latter category.

Members of the school’s Right to Life Club spent a recent school holiday constructing a memorial made of more crosses than the entire diocesan graduating class last year. The memorial commemorates the anniversary of legal abortion in the U.S.

A Xavier press release went on to say:

Each day roughly 3,400 American children are killed through surgical abortion.  The crosses on the bell tower lawn represent only half of that number. By 12 noon today, each cross will represent one of the children who’s life was taken today through legal abortion.

Yet each cross represents so much more, since abortion affects so many other lives.

Since 1973, over 50 million American children have been killed through legal abortion. This week we remember and mourn the loss of one fourth of our friends and families, knowing that not one drop of innocent blood is shed upon our land, without every person in our land sharing responsibility for it.

The display will remain up through this weekend’s pro-life Mass and rally being held at nearby St. Francis Xavier Parish. People attending one or both events may park at Xavier and can see the display.

Incidentally, post-abortive parents are mourning the loss of their unborn children too. I heard part of a program on Immaculate Heart Radio while driving to an interview earlier this week. A courageous woman shared–for the first time publicly–about her abortion. She and her husband (boyfriend at the time of the abortion, I believe), both finally sought much-needed post-abortive help through Rachel’s Vineyard. It sounded like she may one day soon become even more pro-active in the fight for life…of both the mother and the unborn child.