Meridian Right to Life

“January 22: Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children

Did you know?
January 22 is a day of prayer and penance called the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children:

"In all the Dioceses of the United States of America, January 22 (or January 23, when January 22 falls on a Sunday) shall be observed as a particular day of prayer for the full restoration of the legal guarantee of the right to life and of penance for violations to the dignity of the human person committed through acts of abortion" (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, no. 373).

Learn More | A Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe

How to Participate

Not sure how to observe this day of prayer and penance? Pick from the ideas below or offer some other prayer or sacrifice that you feel called to do.

Go to Mass
Participate in the National Prayer Vigil for Life either in-person or virtually (details below!)
Abstain from meat
Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet
Fast
Pray a decade of the Rosary
Give up TV and movies for the day
Offer A Prayer for Hope
Sacrifice some of your free time to do a small act of service for someone else”

https://www.lifenews.com/2025/10/02/fda-approves-new-generic-abortion-drug-to-kill-more-babies/

FDA Approves New Generic Abortion Drug to Kill More Babies - LifeNews.com On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration quietly approved a new generic version of the abortion drug mifepristone. The drug is produced by Evita Solutions LLC, a company that describes its mission as being to “normalize abortion” and make it “accessible to all.” Susan B. Anthony Pro...

EDIT: I will edit this post since the final autopsy isn’t out yet. To me, it doesnt really matter if the baby was born alive or not. She GAVE BIRTH to her baby. She then took her child and left him in her closet to either DIE or ROT in her closet. Either way, she is not the victim, and that is the point of my post.

A university woman gave birth to her baby boy and just wrapped him up in a towel and then placed him in a black garbage bag She then tied up the bag, and if he was born alive, left him to suffocate to death and left him in her closet.

This woman is a human being, created in the image and likeness of God. She has infinite dignity and worth. God desires her complete repentance so that she has the opportunity to spend eternal life with Him I so wish women understood the support they had in the prolife community. I will never call her a monster. I will never call her names. But I will say that if her baby boy was born alive, she murdered her child. If he wasnt born alive and she put him in the closet in order to conceal his life and throw him away like garbage, that is also criminal and disgusting.

She may have been scared. She may have been worried about her future. But for many weeks, she felt her innocent child move inside her womb. She understood that there was a baby inside of her body. No amount of societal pressure or fear justifies what she did to her child.

So please hear me, prolife movement. There is absolutely zero reason to call names. Never. But understand the victim in this crime…and it was a crime. The victim is the baby. His mother had a duty to protect him and she chose either murder or to treat him like waste.

Let’s not allow an outpouring of misguided compassion overwhelm our sense of justice.