The Sweet Dropper

Even though this happened right here in Mississippi, it took a blog post from Justin Taylor to make me aware of it. The Mississippi Baptist Convention has built The Memorial to the Missing to enable us to get some visual sense of the number of abortions in the U.S. since 1973–estimated to be around 50 million. The memorial is filled with 50 million pennies collected from churches around the state and is located at their main office across the street from the State Capitol.

A plaque on the memorial reads:

“Before you is a collection of 50 million pennies! Each penny represents one child who has been aborted since the Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade in 1973. A penny like a baby seems to be so small and sometimes of very little worth, but when seen in a collection of 50 million it becomes enormous.

Each coin is a person, but in many cases it also represents the difficult process of decision-making, fear, and loneliness. While some speak of pro-choice, these babies had no choice. While some speak of a mother’s right to control her own body, 50 million babies were not given their right to live.

Fifty million missing children represented by these pennies must be cause for us to stop, pray, consider what we are doing as a nation, ask God to forgive us, seek ways to help those who are struggling with the decision, and look to the Lord to restore each of us.”