Be Our Guest / Stephen Kappes

Feb. 11 program, Mass remember unborn children tragically lost to abortion

9/11 serves both to recognize and remember the terrorist attacks where 19 men hijacked four airplanes and killed more than 3,000 people on American soul on Sept, 11, 2001.

Many of you may not be familiar with the number 2,411—another atrocity that took place in the Midwest.

That figure—2,411—represents the number of aborted fetal remains discovered on property owned by the late Dr. Ulrich “George” Klopfer. The abortions took place between 2000 and 2003. Klopfer had performed abortions at his Indiana facilities starting in the 1970s before his medical license was suspended in 2016 for various violations.

After Klopfer died in Illinois in 2019, his family’s attorney called the Will County, Ill., coroner, who called the sheriff’s department and the county attorney for assistance with a collection of human remains, discovering bodies and medical records stating that all were from Indiana.

The remains of 2,411 unborn children were eventually returned to Indiana and interred in Southlawn Cemetery in South Bend, Ind.

Klopfer’s story is not so much about abortion as it is about victimization; it is, in my opinion, about one of the greatest atrocities ever to befall mankind.

That is why the Knights of Columbus of the State of Indiana has deemed an event called the “2411 Never Forgotten Project,” and will continue to work so the number 2,411 is recognized beyond the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, which will be held on Sept. 9 this year.

2,411’s significance is not just to document this tragedy or to prevent this from ever taking place again. It is also about retaining laws—currently being litigated—requiring the mothers or the institutions performing abortions, or elective miscarriages, to properly bury the fetuses.

All are invited to attend this year’s 2411 Memorial Mass and program beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 11 at Holy Name of Jesus Church, 89 N. 17th Ave., Beech Grove. Speakers will include Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and Marc Tuttle, executive director of Right to Life of Indianapolis. The program will end at approximately 3:30 p.m. For more information, call 317-788-7127.

(Stephen Kappes, a member of Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Beech Grove, is also chapter president of CUF Holy Innocents.) †