Memorial Service Celebrates Closed Abortion Center, Mourns 60,000 Babies Killed There

Gathering in the back yard of our Chapel of the Innocents right next door to the closed Robbinsdale, MInnesota abortion facility, about 75 people attended our April 26 Memorial Service to remember the estimated 60,000 babies who lost their lives there over the past five decades. The killing finally stopped at this facility at the end of 2024 with the abortionist retiring. The building was purchased by an internet company and a new data center will be built after this building is demolished, which we expect will happen later this year.

During the Memorial Service, the attendees prayed, sang hymns and listened to several featured speakers besides CEO Brian Gibson.

One of the speakers, Rev. Paula Ellefson, lost two of her own children there in the mid-1990s. Her powerful testimony of fear, pain, remorse, repentance, and ultimate redemption and healing by Christ moved the crowd. Another powerful testimony was given by Keith Rischer, RN, the pro-lifer who found the 13 aborted babies in the dumpster behind the building in 1987 (for whom Pro-Life Action Ministries held a funeral and then buried in Resurrection Cemetery in Mendota Heights, Minn.)

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Jennifer Loining, Executive Director, and Ann Taylor, Patient Advocate, of Crystal Women’s Clinic, formerly Robbinsdale Women’s Center, which opened across the street from the Robbinsdale abortion facility in 1992, also spoke, reporting that 4736 babies have been confirmed saved with the help of that pregnancy resource center!

Robert Smith, Associate Pastor of Hope Community Church in Corcoran, Minnesota, told of his experiences leading a father’s group at Robbinsdale Women’s Center. Hope Community was very involved in praying and picketing outside the Robbinsdale abortion facility in the 1990s.

In a providential experience similar to what happened during our Jericho March April 13 (even involving the same two sidewalk counselors), a woman showed up at the door of the Robbinsdale abortion facility during our Memorial Service! She was 8 weeks pregnant and abortion-minded. She spoke Spanish and the Spanish-speaking sidewalk counselor was able to explain all the help available to her while the other sidewalk counselor retrieved Spanish literature and baby gifts from our cabinet behind our Chapel of the Innocents to give to this young woman. We have not heard from her, but we hope and pray that she would have recognized God’s hand in our encounter with her that morning and chose life!

Thank you to all those who came to the Memorial Service and the hundreds of others who have helped save lives at this location over the past many decades!

LifeNews Note: Debra Braun is the Education Director of Pro-Life Action Ministries. Picture is of Rev. Paula Ellefson, testifying to her profound remorse of having had two of her unborn children killed in the 1990s at the Robbinsdale Clinic (behind her in this photo) during the Memorial Service.

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