Katelyn Losinger was a firm believer in women's reproductive rights -- until she became pregnant at 20 years old.

Losinger (senior-crime, law and justice) is now a married student mother, and she said she's never worked harder in her life.

She and her son Michael, who turned 2 years old Tuesday, were present at a candlelight vigil Wednesday night honoring aborted fetuses.

The vigil was held by Students for Life, a secular student group that advocates "right to life" issues in all of its forms, member Rachel Ogden (freshman-liberal arts) said.

Students held candles in front of Old Main to honor both aborted fetuses and mothers who suffer emotional distress from the practice. Losinger and two other students spoke to the group of more than 20 students.

The vigil concluded with a photo slideshow of babies sleeping, laughing and hugging set to Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up."

Stephanie DiBello, president of Students for Life, contrasted Wednesday's event to the group's September rally that compared abortion to genocide.

"[The vigil] is not as aggressive as some of the stuff that we do," DiBello (junior-marketing) said. "It's softer. The genocide project was more aggressive. We don't do stuff like that all of the time."

Paul Moquin, outreach chairman for Students for Life, agreed that the vigil was not as graphic as demonstrations like the one held in September, pointing out that there were no pictures of mutilated infants at the vigil.

"It's just a time for us to meditate on all of the people that have died and their circumstances," Moquin (senior-nutritional sciences) said.

Ogden said the annual event is held to remember lives that never had funerals and might not otherwise be remembered.

"I think it's important just to know that these are lives that we're remembering," Ogden said. "A lot of pro-choice people say 'OK, it's just a potential human being.' But it's life -- it's you and it's me, it's just not as developed yet."

Speakers at the event spoke in general terms about abortion and shared personal stories.

DiBello read aloud the testimony of one mother whose teenage daughter crossed state lines to legally get an abortion without her consent.

The mother had no idea her daughter was pregnant.

Losinger shared her story with the group as well, with Michael on her hip.

"Then I had a real choice to make," she said. "When it came right down to it, I couldn't end his life just so I could do whatever the heck I wanted. Just one person believing in me and believing abortion wasn't the answer was what saved [Michael]."

She ended her speech by assuring the members of the group that their support can make a difference.