National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children

By Bud Shaver,

Albuquerque, New Mexico- As states across the country battle over abortion legislation, the United States continues to be a country deeply divided on the issue. But on The National Day of Remembrance For Aborted Children (observed on Friday September 12, 2025 in Albuquerque this year), pro-life advocates across the country will draw attention to the 65 million unborn children killed by abortion in the U.S. since it became legal across the country in 1973. These victims of abortion will be memorialized during the annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, which will be observed in Albuquerque with a graveside memorial service at 5:30PM at Sandia Memorial Gardens.​

Tara Shaver, spokeswoman for Abortion Free New Mexico issued the following statement,

Unfortunately, despite Roe vs. Wade being overturned, abortion numbers in New Mexico are actually on the rise due to pro-abortion leaders in our state who are making New Mexico a magnet for abortion tourism. For years, despite our most ardent efforts to expose tax funded late-term abortions taking place in New Mexico up to the day of birth, uncovered aborted baby body parts harvesting, and even documented numerous abortion related injuries including at least one woman's death, radical pro-abortion democrats have refused to take any reasonable measures to protect innocent human life in the womb. As a result, thousands of babies lives have been lost and countless mothers have been forever scarred. Abortion only leaves women the mothers of dead children and their lives often take a turn for the worst once the guilt, shame and regret sets in.

Shaver continued,

 On the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, we visit the burial places where a tiny fraction of the unborn victims of abortion have been laid to rest, and mourn for them. 

• Event: National Day of Remembrance For Aborted Children
• ​When: Friday, September 12th at 5:30PM-6:30PM
• Location: Sandia Memory Gardens
• Address: 9500 San Pedro Dr NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113
• Map: Google Location

The National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children has been held on the second Saturday of September since 2013. This national event, sponsored by Citizens for a Pro-Life Society and the Pro-Life Action League, is intended to humanize the unborn victims of abortion by highlighting the fact that every abortion results in a dead body that must be disposed of. While most of these bodies are incinerated, thrown in the trash, or flushed down the drain, a tiny handful have been retrieved from trash bins, landfills, and pathology labs and given a proper burial.

Sandia Memory Gardens in Albuquerque, New Mexico is the only location in the state and one of only 54 sites in the nation where aborted babies are buried. Babies Ryan and Eve were obtained by Fr. Stephen Imbarrato, director of  Life Ministries US and given a proper burial.

In addition, Abortion Free New Mexico has provided multiple memorial headstones for local babies lost to abortion and miscarriage at the same location.