Community Corner
Abortion Protesters Come To Town
Pro-Life Action League uses graphic images to stress its point.
WARNING: Photos accompanying this story contain potentially offensive images that may not be suitable for younger or more sensitive readers.
The Pro-Life Action League, a Chicago-based antiabortion group, camped out at the intersection of Milwaukee Avenue and Golf Road in Niles Saturday morning holding an The demonstration created quite a bit of controversy among residents about both the substance and means of the protest.
Stacy Bruger, who passed through the intersection on her way to get some shopping done, did not appreciate being suprised by the graphic images.
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"I had my son in the car. These people have no right to be showing these images here. I mean it's a free country, everyone has a right to their opinion. If you don't believe in abortion that's fine, but nobody has the right to be showing these photographs," Bruger said.
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Eric Scheidler, the Pro-Life Action League's executive director, said he could sympathize with people reacting to the images negatively. Scheidler explained, "I think the right response isn't to get angry with us for showing it, but to do all that we can to make a society in which we don't have to resort to this kind of killing of a totally innocent unborn child."
The stop in Niles was part of the group's "Face the Truth" tour which visited numerous towns in the Chicago area over 9 days. The Niles protest began the final day of demonstrations for the 2011 tour. The Pro-Life Action League regularly holds such tours for roughly 10 days every summer.
