Tennessee Unveils New Monument to the Victims of Abortion

On Wednesday, June 24, Tennessee Right to Life celebrated the unveiling of the Monument to the Victims of Abortion on the capitol grounds.

The ceremony was especially fitting as it was held on the fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision which overturned Roe vs. Wade thereby returning the responsibility of protecting unborn children back to the states. The Human Life Protection Act went into effect, and since then thousands of unborn children and their mothers have been saved from the tragedy of abortion.

Tennessee Right to Life backed the legislation for the monument that was proposed and passed during the 2018 session. Senator Steve Southerland and former State Representative Jerry Sexton, the bill sponsors, were on hand for the unveiling. Both expressed their appreciation that what was started eight years ago had finally come to fruition.

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Several current and former legislators who supported the proposal for the monument in 2018 attended the ceremony, calling it a historic event.

Co-sponsor former Representative Bill Dunn read the inscription that appears on the granite marker:

In memory of the victims of abortion.

The baby whose life was lost.

The mother who regrets.

The father who couldn’t protect.

The child who lost a sibling and

society which is coarsened by every

deliberate attack on innocent human life.

Dunn pointed out that the monument to the victims of abortion will join the other two monuments on the capitol grounds – one to the victims of slavery and one to the victims of the holocaust. “These monuments that are already here recognize that atrocities occurred because human beings were treated as less than human. In both cases, the vulnerable and defenseless were subjected to the will of the powerful. The taking of the life of the baby in the womb is related to this brand of inhumanity.”

Tennessee Right to Life is grateful to Senator Janice Bowling and Senator Tom Hatcher who took up the cause to make the monument a reality. Daniel Breeden, Executive Director of Tennessee Right to Life acknowledged their efforts saying, “Without the work of Senators Bowling and Hatcher, the monument would have remained just a piece of legislation written in the law – Title 4, Chapter 8, Part 3, Section 4-8-305. Because of them this is now a special place of remembrance, reflection, and truth. This monument is about making sure that future generations understand the value of every human life.”

No government funds were used in this project, per the language of the law.