Abortion clinic opens in Carbondale, drawing daily protests - WSIL TV

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CARBONDALE, Ill. (WSIL) -- Over the summer, the metropolis of Carbondale thrust itself into the mediate of the ever-heated statement connected abortion.

In May, it was announced that CHOICES Center for Reproductive Health, a session based retired of Memphis, Tennessee, would unfastened successful the fall. The session opened connected Tuesday.

Right now, the session is offering medicine termination services and says it volition statesman offering surgical abortions arsenic soon arsenic they can. A CHOICES typical told News 3 they don't person a day acceptable connected erstwhile those procedures volition begin.

For the past 28 days, pro-life groups similar Coalition Life gathered extracurricular the session calling for its closure. 

It's portion of the '40 Days of Life' according to radical subordinate Grace Walker.

"It means that we're retired present for 40 days consectively and praying and hoping for an extremity to abortion," Walker said.

After the interview, Walker and chap radical subordinate Dana Greenlee said a supplication extracurricular the clinic.

"I truly consciousness similar Carbondale for the astir portion is beauteous pro-life. Maybe not everyone is going to basal retired determination with a motion but there's truthful galore radical that get truthful excited that we're here," Greenlee said.

Walker besides wore a motion that work 'Honk if you're pro-life', drafting dozens of honks successful enactment of their message.

"The different time I counted and we had 130 honk for america and we had 9 radical flip america off," Greenlee said.

Despite opposition, Walker, who has protested for 28 consecutive days, volition proceed to instrumentality to her message. Greenlee says she was drawn to travel retired past Wednesday and has been coming each time since.

"I truly emotion beingness and I consciousness I person a close to unrecorded and truthful bash different people," Greenlee said.

CHOICES representatives were not disposable for authoritative comment.