NKYRTL June 2025 Newsletter

Sunday, September 14, 2025 NKRTL 52nd Annual Celebration for Life Guest Speaker: Cal Zastrow

A few days after the inauguration, President Donald Trump kept his campaign promise and pardoned 23 pro-lifers who had been convicted for peacefully protesting at an abortion mill.

“This is a great honor to sign this,” declared President Trump when he signed the pardons. “They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted,” declared the president.

One of those pardoned was Cal Zastrow, 64, of Kawkalin, Michigan, who was released from federal

prison on January 23, 2025, about halfway through his six-months sentence in a low-security facility in Thomson, Illinois.

“I’m very thankful to the Lord to be pardoned and to get back into the fight against baby murdering and to serve the Lord and to be with my family,” he told The Daily Signal. “It’s absolutely wonderful.”

The 1994 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, signed by pro-abortion President Bill

Clinton, was rarely used to prosecute pro-lifers. However, the Biden Department of Justice paired the FACE indictments with charges of “conspiracy against rights” – the rights to access so-called “reproductive health services” – which brought a possible 10-year prison sentence, as noted by WORLD. A majority of these convictions were against individuals who prayed, sang, and talked to women who had come for appointments at abortion facilities.

During his 101 days of incarceration, Cal considered it a great privilege to minister to his fellow prisoners. “I was able to minister to a lot of men and encourage them, and some guys sought me out, some believers that needed some help or just strengthening, or we needed to work through some problems together and some family dynamics they were going through,” he said. “It was a joy for me to evangelize, to tell people about Jesus. It was a joy for me to minister to other believers in there and to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Cal is not finished, for he plans to stay in contact with and visit his former prison mates. “A lot of them are doing good in the Lord, and I want to bless and stay in touch with them. Some of them have family visit them, but most of the people in prison never have any visits, so I want to change that personally.”

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) have introduced bills repealing the FACE Act so it cannot be used in the future to persecute those who stand up for the unborn child.

“GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE” POSES “SUFFICIENT RISK,” BUT “VIRTUALLY NO BENEFITS.”

“These interventions carry risk of significant harms including infertility/sterility, sexual dysfunction, impaired bone density accrual, adverse cognitive impacts, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders, psychiatric disorders, surgical complications, and regret,” concludes the 409-page study released in May by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) titled “Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria Review of Evidence and Best Practices.”

The document reads: “The review highlights a growing body of evidence pointing to significant risks –

including irreversible harms such as infertility – while finding very weak evidence of benefit. That weakness has been a consistent finding of systematic reviews of evidence around the world.”

A press release from HHS states: “This review, informed by an evidence-based medicine approach, reveals serious concerns about medical interventions, such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries, that attempt to transition children and adolescents away from their sex.”

SOCIAL CONTAGION: Twenty years ago, who ever heard, much less discussed, that it would be beneficial to someone to receive medical treatment by which they could change their biological sex? What caused this new “medical necessity” that has given rise to a multi-million dollar medical industry?

Addressing these questions is a study released by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), which confirmed that the United States is experiencing an “epidemic” of childhood gender confusion. The report, titled “State Reforms to Protect Children from Harmful and Irreversible Transgender Medical Procedures,” presents analysis of insurance data, academic research, and public health records to assist in legal reforms that will protect children, reports the Catholic newspaper, The Wanderer.

Christopher Schorr, Ph.D., a senior policy analyst at AFPI and the report’s author, stated that more than 300,000 American children between the ages of 13 and 17 struggle with gender confusion, which is twice the number that research had estimated just two years ago. According to the report, this epidemic of childhood gender confusion is by and large the result of activists and politicians who are promoting gender ideology on impressionable children, including in many of our classrooms across the country.

“It is adults – specifically, men – who dress as hyper-sexualized caricatures of women and recruit children to publicly participate in their fetishes. It is adults who implement policies allowing boys into girls’ sports and intimate facilities and who mandate the use of so-called ‘preferred pronouns.’ It is adults, not children, who create the online social media platforms and pornographic content that fuel the transgender social contagion,” concludes Schorr.

The report recommended that state legislators enact restrictions on medical providers that have perpetrated these medical abuses:

• Prohibit all mutilating medical interventions for minor children, including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries.

• Revoke medical licenses from those who violate the previous provision.

• Prohibit the use of public funds for [mutilating] medical interventions for minor children.

• Prohibit insurance companies from providing coverage for [mutilating] medical interventions for minor children.

• Make physicians who perform [mutilating] medical interventions for minor children legally liable for medical malpractice claims.

KENTUCKY: Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana have joined 24 other states in enacting protection for children from gender interventions.

In 2024, the Kentucky General Assembly passed the “Do No Harm Act,” which provided, in part, for the purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of or to validate a minor’s perception of the minor’s sex that is inconsistent with the minor’s biological sex, that healthcare providers shall not:

1. Prescribe any drug to delay or stop normal puberty;

2. Prescribe hormones in amounts greater than would normally be produced in a healthy person of the same age and sex;

3. Perform any sterilizing surgery;

4. Perform any surgery that artificially constructs tissue having the appearance of genitalia differing from the minor’s sex; and

5. Remove any healthy or non-diseased body part or tissue.

It was not surprising that pro-abortion Gov. Andy Beshear (D) vetoed the legislation, which was overwhelmingly enacted in both the House and in the Senate, and then his veto was overwhelmingly overridden by the House and the Senate. However, it was a great disappointment that three of the “no” votes against the legislation and against overriding the governor’s veto were by three Northern Kentucky state representatives: Kim Banta (R), Kimberly Poore Moser (R), and Stephanie Ann Dietz (R). All of the Northern Kentucky state senators voted “yes” for the legislation and “yes” to override the governor’s veto.

OHIO: Provisions of Ohio HB 68, the Saving

Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act:

1. Forbid courts from considering a parents’ refusal to “affirm” a child’s gender confusion as weighing against their parental rights;

2. Prohibit physicians from surgically or chemically “transitioning” minors;

3. Require mental health professionals to check for other mental health disorders before diagnosing a minor with a condition related to gender confusion; and

4. Ban schools and interscholastic athletic organizations from allowing gender-confused males to compete in athletic teams intended for females.

Sadly, Gov. Mike DeWine (R) vetoed the bill, which the Ohio legislature overruled, thus making HB 68 state law.

Naturally, the American Civil Liberties Union sued, claiming that such bill is unconstitutional. In March, 2025, an appellate court granted an injunction against the enforcement of this bill. However, in May, 2025, the Ohio Supreme Court reversed the appellate court’s injunction, allowing the state to enforce the law while the matter continues in the courts.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Under the Biden administration, the federal taxpayers have spent millions, if not billions, promoting and enriching the transgender industry. On the other hand, the Trump administration wants to investigate “regret and detransition following social transition as well as chemical and surgical mutilation of children and adults” and “outcomes from children who have undergone social transition and/or chemical and surgical mutilation,” stated in an email from then-Acting National Institutes of Health Director Matthew Memoli.

IT'S A LIE: It is a lie that someone can simply imagine that they are biologically a different sex. Since there is no real limit on the "reality" one can create by one's imagination, this lie proclaims that one can not only change one's biological sex, but can do so as often as one chooses.

If a man perceives himself to be a woman, removes or mutilates parts of his body through surgery, ingests hormones, dresses in women's clothes, and/or conducts himself in a manner normal of a woman, it is not going to change the reality that he in fact is a man. For others to pretend that he is somehow a woman would do him a great disservice, assisting him in escaping from the reality that he is a man and encouraging him to live a delusion.

“GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE” QUOTES WORTH QUOTING

The Wall Street Journal reported: “The U.S. is becoming an outlier among many Western nations in the way its national medical institutions treat children suffering from distress over gender identity. ...For years, the American healthcare industry has staunchly defended medical interventions for transgender minors, including puberty blockers...”

This is in contrast to several leading European nations, which are now “expressing doubts about that approach.” The medical communities of the U.K., France, Sweden, and Finland have all urged increased caution and even recommended stringent regulations regarding gender transition surgeries and drugs for children who identify as transgender.

France’s National Academy of Medicine warned that “many undesirable effects and even serious complications ... can be caused by some of the therapies available.” The Academy noted that the recent increase in “gender dysphoria” presenting in children may not be natural but could be a result of “excessive engagement with social media, greater social acceptability, or influence by those in one’s social circle.”

"Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical or surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful, is child abuse." ~American College of Pediatrics

While taking hormone-altering therapies or transitioning to the opposite sex has become “all the rage,” states Dr. Brett Osborn, a Florida neurologist, the data suggests there is no long-term mental health benefit, reports Fox News. “In addition, those opting for hormone-altering therapies are potentially interfering with not only sexual development,” Osborn warned. “Testosterone and estrogen, the hormones primarily manipulated with such therapies, are integral to memory formation and mood. Such [‘gender affirming’] surgeries permanently alter one’s physical appearance, carrying with them irreversible consequences, such as infertility and sexual dysfunction.”

Dr. Marc Siegel, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, and a Fox News medical contributor, commented: “Hormone-altering therapies are potentially interfering with not only sexual development, but also brain development. Long-term effects of puberty blockers may include bone loss, trouble concentrating, interference with learning, and interference with fertility.”

“Dr. Riittakertu Kaltiala, a Finnish-born psychiatrist who heads the Department of Adolescent Psychiatry at Finland’s Tampere University Hospital, was among the first physicians in the world to head a gender identity clinic for minors. She, too, has reversed course.

“In a statement she wrote that was signed by 20 clinicians from nine countries, she said, ‘Every systematic review of evidence to date, including one published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society, has found the evidence for mental health benefits of hormonal interventions for minors to be of low or very low certainty.’ She knows why so many professionals have been smothered. ‘Medicine, unfortunately, is not immune to dangerous groupthink that results in patient harm,’” reports the Catholic League.

“We provide unprecedented histological evidence revealing detrimental pediatric testicular sex gland responses to [puberty blockers],” concluded the study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Massachusetts.

“What message do I want to bring to American teenagers and their families? I didn’t need to be lied to. I needed compassion. I needed to be loved. I needed to be getting therapy to help me work through my issues, and not being affirmed in my delusion that by transforming into a boy, I will solve all my problems,” stated Chloe Cole, in her testimony before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee as to the “dangers and due process violations” of ‘gender-affirming care.’”

At age 18 she had a double mastectomy, and at age 21 “a total hysterectomy, including the removal of my uterus, cervix, fallopian tubes, and both ovaries.” Her testimony continued: “[Gender] transition is a big deal, and we’re lying when we say that any of this is reversible. This is a big decision with lifelong consequences.”

"There's no point of contentment during a gender transition. We get fleeting moments of euphoria, but ultimately, one step leads straight into the next. I thought that in the end, I could really become a man. But all I became was a mutilated and abused version of my old self," testified Katie Lennon before New Hampshire legislators.

Whatever happened to common sense? No medical expert or medical study needs to be cited to prove what is so obvious. "I don't know how anyone could think that something that's so obvious as 'a boy is a boy, and he needs to grow into being a man,' ...can be a question," expresses Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco.

“Don’t be deceived. No amount of using preferred pronouns, changing sex assignments on birth certificates, or destroying women’s sports by allowing males to compete against females can undo what God does when He creates a human being in the mother’s womb,” teaches Rev. Franklin Graham in his article published in Decision. He continues: “Biology and common sense have always recognized the simple reality that a person is born either male or female.”

World-renowned scientist and atheist Richard Dawkins observed: “As a biologist, there are two sexes, and that’s all there is to it.”

God created mankind in His image; in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:27.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD PROVIDES HORMONES TO MINORS

In an undercover investigation conducted by Live Action, staff at Planned Parenthood facilities in New York, Minnesota, and other states informed a minor that they would prescribe for her “gender transition” hormone drugs, often without therapy, in-person evaluation, or parental consent.

The investigator, stating that she was a 16-year-old seeking testosterone to begin a so-called “gender transition,” was offered, after a brief virtual consultation, to be sent a prescription to her pharmacy the same day. Other Planned Parenthood clinics told the investigator that no therapy or psychological screening would be required.

“Our reporting proves three devastating facts,” said a Live Action spokesperson. “Planned Parenthood is giving trans drugs to minors (16-year-olds). No therapy or mental health evaluation is required. Minors can access the drugs the same day as their first (virtual) appointment.” In 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) identified Planned Parenthood as a “leading provider” of cross-sex hormones to adolescents.

POPE LEO XIV CONDEMNS ABORTION

Professor Charlie Camosy of the Creighton School of Medicine compiled a list of pro-life statements made by Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who now leads the Catholic Church as Pope Leo XIV. The following list was published by lifenews.com:

• “The Church must walk with all people, especially the most vulnerable, ensuring their

• dignity is upheld from the womb to the end of life, as this is the heart of Christ’s mission.” (2023)

• “Our elderly are not to be discarded but cherished as bearers of wisdom and faith, deserving the same love and protection as the youngest among us.” (Speech to Peruvian Bishops, 2020)

• “We cannot build a just society if we discard the weakest – whether the child in the womb or the elderly in their frailty – for they are both gifts from God.” (Homily, Chiclayo, 2019)

• “God’s mercy calls us to protect every life, especially those society overlooks – the child yet to be born and the elderly nearing their journey’s end – because each bears Christ’s face.” (Homily, Suburbicarian Diocese of Albano, 2025)

• “Bishops are called to be shepherds who defend the sanctity of life, ensuring no one – neither the unborn nor the aging – is left without the Church’s love and protection.” (Dicastery for Bishops Address, 2023)

May God’s blessing be upon Pope Leo XIV to give him the understanding and encouragement to lead the Catholic Church to be a clear, consistent, and unwavering voice for the right to life of the unborn child, those with disabilities, and the elderly.

“ABORT BEFORE LEAVING TODAY”

by Jordyn Gloser (author)

My husband Brian and I were 24 years old and had been happily married for three years when we learned that I was pregnant with our first child. I was born with multiple congenital heart defects, and although I had been cleared for pregnancy by my cardiologist, we were referred to the specialist hospital for our 13-week ultrasound.

Brian held my hand as I lay on the exam table, and the tech turned his focus on the fuzzy black and white picture on his small screen. And then suddenly there he was – our baby. Even with my untrained eyes, I could clearly make out his head and tiny body, two small arms, legs, hands, and feet. He was real!

We spent the appointment asking questions and basking in the glow of becoming first-time parents. But it was when the tech finished the exam and flipped on the lights that I saw his face fully for the first time. Something was wrong.

The doctor entered and asked, “Have you ever heard of gastroschisis? Gastroschisis is a rare non-genetic defect in which a fetus’ intestines and other organs develop on the outside of the body.” She paused briefly and then powered on, because for her, this was just another day at the office. “This is not the only issue, though. With your heart condition, it is likely that your heart valve is not strong enough and will burst at any moment. With both of these significant problems, I advise that you abort before leaving today.”

The edges of my reality began to blur. I sensed Brian standing near me and reaching out to offer comfort. “No.” I breathed out. Then, lifting my face and making eye contact, I firmly stated again, “No.” In her exasperation, the doctor rotated and then aimed her gaze at Brian. “Are you going to choose this fetus over your wife?” She spit out the words as an accusation more than a question.

Over the next week, Brian and I worked through conversation that you never expect to have in your

twenties. How to you prepare to die?

I knew the journey would be hard and potentially heartbreaking, but it was not wrong. I knew it was not our choice to decide whose life was more valuable. It was not up to us to decide how or when either of us would leave this world. That is power we were not meant to hold. I may not have fully understood God’s plan, but I could have faith that He does not make mistakes. Sometimes faith means just taking the first step and then the next and then the next – but the fear may never go away.

Over the next five months, we fought hard for our son. We found a new doctor who was willing to work with us, and I went to three appointments a week for ultrasounds, fetal monitoring, and cardio screening. In November of 2009, our son Davis entered the world. After immediate surgical intervention and time in the NICU, he went home as a happy baby with strawberry colored hair and big, dark brown eyes. For months after the delivery, I also continued to undergo cardiology testing. Eventually, doctors came to the conclusion that my heart was in fact strong enough for pregnancy. The doctor had been wrong.

It has been 16 years since we walked away from that initial appointment. I still have the ultrasound photo, but I now also have additional photos of Davis’ first cowboy birthday party, his first day of school, his first lost tooth, his first cast being cut off, and the first time he drove a car – a million small moments, culminating in a slideshow of a life being lived.

The crazy part of our story is not the rare diagnosis or even the doctor being wrong. The crazy part of our story is that the culture tried to convince us that the baby in the first black and white photo held less value than in the photos that followed. That is a lie. A life at every stage of development holds infinite value and is always worth fighting for. Just ask our son.

(This column was originally published by Oregon Right to Life.)

UNREGULATED CHEMICAL ABORTIONS

The largest study ever conducted on the abortion pill was released by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC). This study of the abortion pill, which accounts for two-thirds or more of U.S. abortions, concluded that nearly 11% of women who use the abortion pill suffered from extreme serious life-threatening conditions such as sepsis, infection, or hemorrhaging.

In contradiction to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) claim that the pill was “safe and effective,” the study concluded that women are 22 times more likely to be harmed by the abortion pill than the FDA suggests.

The abortion pill uses two drugs. Mifepristone blocks progesterone and glucocorticosteroid receptors, that are key to nurturing a healthy pregnancy, causing the death of the newly conceived child by starvation. The second drug, misoprostol, is taken to cause contractions to expel the child.

Originally approved by the FDA in the final days of the Clinton administration, the original safeguard requirements were removed by the Obama administration. The original requirement that mifepristone be administered in the presence of a medical provider was rescinded. There is no longer any requirement that non-fatal complications from the use of the drug be reported to the FDA. The requirement that the drug be used before seven weeks of pregnancy was changed to a 10-week gestational limit.

Under the Biden administration, the FDA approved mail-order distribution of the drug, eliminating any in-person consultation.

With these policy changes, the abortion pill became a do-it-yourself chemical abortion. These dangerous drugs are now being administered without the supervision of a medical professional, thus leaving women without medical supervision or medical support.

The no-test protocol on the dating of gestational age of the child has led to the failure to identify and locate an ectopic pregnancy. The omission of an ultrasound results in misidentifying the age of the child, thus increasing the woman’s risk. At seven weeks of pregnancy, the drug is known to fail in at least one in 20 women, and at 11 weeks the failure rate is one in three women.

Trump In an interview with Time magazine after his election, President Trump indicated that he was “100% unlikely” to limit access to mifepristone.

Vice President JD Vance, who had previously expressed opposition to the abortion pill, now seems to suggest that the abortion policy should be made by the states.

In early May, the Justice Department argued that a lawsuit filed by three states which challenged the approval of mifepristone distribution in their states should be dismissed. The new FDA commissioner, Dr. Martin Makary, stated that the FDA had no plans to limit access to the drug.

The abortion pill has become the future method of abortion worldwide.

THE ABORTION PILL

• 60% of all abortions are chemical.

• Drug-induced abortions are also called “chemical abortions.”

• There are two main drugs used in chemical abortions: Mifepristone and Misoprostol.

• Mifepristone causes the reduction of nutrients and oxygen pathways, starving the fetus.

• Misoprostol induces labor to expel the starved fetus.

• There are many harmful effects and physical risks involved.

Source: Population Research Institute

KENTUCKY ABORTION BAN IS STILL LAW

At the end of May, 2025, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kentucky announced that it was withdrawing its lawsuit which challenged the constitutionality of Kentucky’s almost total ban on abortion, and of Kentucky’s six-week abortion ban. A Louisville woman, using the name of Mary Poe, challenged the statutes, stating that they violated her constitutional rights, even though there is no right to abortion in the Kentucky Constitution.

At the end of May, the ACLU, without stating any reason, voluntarily dismissed this action. Thus, abortions will continue to be banned in nearly all cases, except where it is alleged to save the mother’s life or to prevent severe injury.

Northern Kentucky Right to Life expresses its gratitude to Kentucky’s Attorney General, Russell Coleman, the defendant in the case, for his vigorous defense of the Kentucky statutes. “Kentucky’s pro-life laws stand strong, protecting innocent lives and reflecting the will of our people,” he stated.

Back in 2023, the Kentucky Supreme Court found that the abortion businesses lacked standing to sue on behalf of potential patients. Afterwards, the ACLU and Planned Parenthood filed Poe v. Coleman on behalf of the plaintiff.

The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services reported just 23 abortions in 2023, claimed all were deemed medically necessary, compared to 4,441 in 2021 prior to the Dobbs case when abortion was legal.

ABORTION IS NOT NECESSARY TO SAVE MOTHER'S LIFE Physicians who lead medical associations in the United States published the following article: "Abortion is not an essential part of women's healthcare. The vast majority of abortions are done by abortion providers who do not provide any other kind of medical care for the woman. Abortion treats no disease. Pregnancy is not a disease, and deliberately killing the unborn child by abortion is not healthcare. ...There is no medical reason to intentionally kill that fetal human through an inhumane abortion procedure.

"Any infant who is born alive, at any stage of development, is a person entitled to the protection of the law and appropriate care as a new patient. There is no scientific or legal reason to distinguish between human beings born after an attempted abortion and human beings born after attempted live birth."

The pro-life physicians signing the article were: Dr. Donna J. Harrison, executive director of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists; Dr. Michelle Cretella, executive director of the American College of Pediatricians; Dr. John Schirger, president of the Catholic Medical Association; Dr. David Stevens, CEO of Christian Medical & Dental Associations; and Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. They represent more than 30,000 physicians in the United States who, according to their article, “practice according to the Hippocratic Oath.”

NO MEDICAL REASON FOR ABORTION

Omar L. Hamada, M.D., FACOG, explained:"...there is absolutely no medically justifiable reason for abortion ('the intentional and elective targeted killing of an infant at any stage of pregnancy for matters of maternal choice or convenience') to save the life of the mother. Period."

The American College of Pediatricians, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and other medical groups emphatically stated: "Abortion treats no disease. Pregnancy is not a disease, and deliberately killing the unborn child by abortion is not healthcare."

PROHIBITING ABORTIONS DOES NOT DIMINISH HEALTHCARE

“Life-threatening pregnancy complications such as ectopic pregnancy and previable premature rupture of membranes (PPRO) require treatment, but these treatments are not the same as abortion, whose goal is to end unborn life,” states Ingrid Skop, M.D., a Texas OB-GYN who is the vice president and director of medical affairs at the Charlotte Lozier Institute.

Abortion bans do not hinder doctors from treating miscarriages either. Skop explains: “Miscarriage care is fundamentally different from an abortion. One cares for a woman after the tragic death of her child, while the other violently ends the life of a living child. No U.S. law restricts this procedure.”

She blamed abortion activists for stoking unnecessary fears and faulted major medical groups like the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists for not helping doctors understand the laws. Both groups have taken pro-abortion stances in recent years, reported by lifenews.com.

“Throughout the history, and to this day, life affirming physicians caring for pregnant women have always recognized that they have two patients – the mother and her child,” states Dr. Monique Chireau Wubbenhorst, an OB-GYN.

EVERY LIFE DESERVES HONOR

A newborn baby girl was found on March 27, 2025, in a pond at Pine Island Park, Manchester, New Hampshire. The police named her Grace.

The community came together to organize the funeral for Grace, including a wake and service for the public to attend, reports Live Action. Police also released an artist’s rendering of Grace. Her obituary stated, “She will be laid to rest with love, carried not only by those present, but by all who recognize the value of every human life, no matter how brief.”

Manchester Police Chief Peter Marr stated: "This baby deserves to be recognized. The way she was discarded is heartbreaking, and it is important that we give her a proper farewell. No matter the circumstances, every life deserves honor and remembrance."

"Her brief life may have been tragic, but at least she has been laid to rest in a respectful way and with dignity", he added. "I know for our police officers, it gives a sense of closure," Marr said of the funeral. "It's a horrible incident that happened. Nobody should be treated that way. Nobody deserves to be discarded the way that baby Grace was, so think it's the right thing to do."

Pray for Baby Grace's mother and father, for surely, she prays for them constantly.