Anti-Abortion Protest Coming To Mokena: When And Where

MOKENA, IL — The Pro-Life Action League, an anti-abortion group, is once again planning a series of protests in Chicagoland, with several stops planned in the south suburbs this month. A busy intersection in Mokena is one of the spots where the group plans to gather.

Previous protests in the group's "Face the Truth" tour have included large, often graphic, signs that include images of fetuses with phrases.

“Too often, the issue of abortion is cloaked with abstraction,” said Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League. “Euphemisms like ‘choice’ hide the reality that abortion is an act of extreme violence imposed on an innocent human person at the most vulnerable stage of life. We’re going out there to make sure that when people hear news about the fate of Roe v. Wade, they also think about the fate of every unborn child threatened with abortion.”

The group plans to gather near the intersection of 191st Street and La Grange Road from 3-4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 11. It will be the final of three stops on the day that includes earlier visits to Orland Park and Flossmoor/Olympia Fields.

"Participants will visit sites throughout the Chicago area, holding pictures of beautiful unborn babies along with signs showing the victims of abortion," the group wrote on its website announcing the tour dates and stops.

The Pro-Life Action League organizes protests in July on an annual basis, with the one held in Mokena last year drawing not only several Pro-Life advocates but Pro-Choice counterprotesters as well. The two opposing groups held signs, some directed at one another, at the same intersection where this year's protest is planned.

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Photo courtesy of the Pro-Life Action League