{"id":211556,"date":"2019-10-13T08:40:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T13:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=211556"},"modified":"2019-10-12T01:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T06:42:26","slug":"memorial-unborn-offers-place-parents-commemorate-heal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/memorial-unborn-offers-place-parents-commemorate-heal\/","title":{"rendered":"National Memorial for the Unborn offers place for parents to commemorate and heal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Chattanooga Women&#8217;s Clinic opened in 1975, just two years after the landmark\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> Supreme Court case that legalized induced abortion in the United States. Today, on that same former site of the only abortion facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, stands the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memorialfortheunborn.org\/\">National Memorial for the Unborn<\/a>. It opened in 1994, and to this day, Chattanooga remains one of only a few large U.S. cities\u00a0<em>without<\/em> an abortion facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/76803073\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Memorial&#8217;s website, a group of pro-lifers started praying on the sidewalk outside the facility in 1985. In 1989, Chattanooga became a location of sit-ins during the heyday of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dc-judge-dismisses-priest-activist-abortion-center\/\">rescue movement<\/a>, which was &#8220;a massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clmagazine.org\/topic\/pro-life-activism\/red-rose-rescue-loving-jesus-precious-children-inside-abortion-facilities\/\">nationwide nonviolent effort<\/a> to save the lives of babies and their mothers who were in immediate danger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/demolished-abortion-facility-to-become-memorial-for-preborn-children\/\">Demolished abortion facility to become memorial for preborn children<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After several years of intense prayer by locals, members of the local pro-life group, the Pro-Life Majority Coalition of Chattanooga (ProMaCC) learned in April of 1993 that the clinic was going to be sold as part of a bankruptcy filing. But they found out the abortion facility doctor planned to buy the property as soon as it was listed for sale. In just one weekend, ProMaCC raised $264,000, the amount that the doctor planned to buy the property for, and filed an objection to the sale. A bankruptcy court judge agreed to have an auction for the property, and the Memorial&#8217;s website tells the rest:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Additional monies had been pouring in all week, even unsolicited pledges from attorneys who had been present in the courtroom and overheard the case. By the time the session started Friday afternoon, ProMaCC had cash and pledges totaling $301,000. The auction began with ProMaCC&#8217;s counter offer, and the judge ordered that subsequent bids be made in $5,000 increments. This was a crucial decision, because it established the threshold ProMaCC knew it could not cross. ProMaCC&#8217;s highest allowable bid would be $294,000. If Dr. Perry persisted beyond that to $299,000, then ProMaCC would lose the auction because it would not have the funds to make the next required bid. Once again, God proved his faithfulness: Dr. Perry bowed out when ProMaCC&#8217;s bid reached $294,000!<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_212377\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-212377\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-212377\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/national-memorial-unborn-outside-700x381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/national-memorial-unborn-outside-700x381.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/national-memorial-unborn-outside-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/national-memorial-unborn-outside-768x418.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/national-memorial-unborn-outside-500x272.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/national-memorial-unborn-outside.jpg 1194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-212377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot: National Memorial for the Unborn video<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A pregnancy care center opened on the site in 1994, and no abortion facility has operated in Chattanooga since. The Memorial now serves as a &#8220;place of hope and healing&#8221; for families who have lost a child to abortion or to miscarriage.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-foot granite Wall of Names includes brass plates honoring aborted children. Brick pavers in the Remembrance Garden as well as a Pool of Tears give families of children lost to miscarriage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memorialfortheunborn.org\/honor-your-child\">a place to grieve and honor their lives<\/a>. October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, and the National Memorial for the Unborn offers parents and family members a place to process and heal from these losses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chattanooga Women&#8217;s Clinic opened in 1975, just two years after the landmark\u00a0Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that legalized induced abortion in the United States. Today, on that same former site of the only abortion facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, stands the National Memorial for the Unborn. 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