The project was initiated by the "Croatia for Life" association which said in a press release the monument was dedicated to all pregnant women and their children killed in wars on Croatian territory.
The press release also said after the fall of Vukovar, Ružica Markobašić sought refuge in the Vukovar Hospital from where she was taken with other wounded people and patients by the occupying forces to the Ovčara far where she was executed.
Sculptor Lovre Jakšić also sculpted a bust of the French volunteer Jean-Michel Nicolier, who was also killed at Ovčara.