Melanie Mills
April 19, 2006


What in the world you ask am I talking about? Well, I'll tell you and it isn't pleasant at all.

A couple of weeks ago my friend Nedd Karieva came and we made the trip into Granite City which is a little like going into the twilight zone if you've never been there before. I have many times, but Nedd hadn't. It was an eye opener for him to say the least.

As we made our way through the outskirts of town and proceeded into the belly of the beast,

Nedd saw the decay of a once booming town & the remains of steel factories that once burgeoned with life & profits, but now just run at minimum capacity. The town is economically depressed obviously just by looking at it aesthetically speaking, but there is more to the story of this town that has brought the decay we see today.

Enter in The Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City Illinois. This $2 million state of the art medical facility built in 1999, looks out of place from the outside with it's clean exterior, but on the inside is a dirt so dark that even the most filthy steel mill in town looks clean in comparison to them.

Hope Clinic by name alone is grossly misleading. By the name one conjures up a meaning associated with a place that helps people medically, this is the farthest thing from the truth.

Talk about false advertising one would never know just by looking that Hope Clinic is not a place of Hope at all, it is a place of death. Hope Clinic is an Abortion Clinic. Where's the Hope in that?

As we approached the clinic a few protestors stood and tried as best as they could to discourage those going in from getting an abortion. The sad thing is in the 3 years I have gone there the attitude of the women and men has become so nonchalant as if they are going in for a dental appointment. In the past you could talk or minister to the people and they would take your literature and at least ponder on what you have to say. Now for the most part they walk right up to the guard station, sign in and then go in the clinic and that's it. No dialoging like in the past. It is a rare chance now to save a baby about to be aborted. That is because clinic staff informs women that "protestors" will be in front, so they are instructed to just keep walking. So, where does this leave us Pro-Lifer's? It leaves us banging our head against the wall, as the sheeps to the slaughter keep stumbling in.

Well, I was stunned. The emotional turmoil usually seen on the faces of these clients is now but almost gone. It is as if you are watching zombies trotting off going into the abortuary with no remorse, guilt or shame. This is where the Limo & High Heels come in.

Just when you think you've heard & seen it all at an abortion clinic, you haven't! A ministry that protests there 6 days a week reported on their site a woman was taken by limo to the clinic and then escorted back to the airport in St. Louis via the Limo so she could get on a plane and no one would know what she did and she could go back to her town & friends like business as usual! Check out smallvictoriesusa.com for the article. Then the day Nedd and I go there I saw a young woman dressed to the nines with high heels, skirt & glittery purse go into the clinic! I started asking, "Does she think she's going to a disco?" It was absolutely appalling! Dressed up like it's cocktail hour to get an abortion, or birth control pills. Does anybody even possess a modicum of decency anymore? I guess decency doesn't even exist anymore after witnessing that!

What has our beautiful country come too? Can we save this nation before it implodes in on itself from all the problems it faces? Do girls that go to abortion clinics in Limos, High Heels &

Short Skirts even care? Unfortunately, I think they don't. They are buying into the stale rhetoric of the Planned Parenthood mantra, "If it feels good, do it." And doing it they are.

But, I ask you — what are you doing? Do you care anymore? If you have become so desensitized to the abortion issue then I am offering to you this challenge -

Pick one day, (Saturdays are best) and go to the abortion clinic of your choice. Just stand there 1 or 2 hours as a silent witness for yourself, your country and God. Ask yourself if what you see disturbs you and if it does, then do something about it. Get involved with a local Pro-Life organization, support your Pro-Life Representatives, make phone calls, emails, faxes etc. Tell people your concerns & get involved.

The alternative if you don't is further complacency, apathy and watching more girls riding in limos, wearing high heels and short skirts marching into abortion clinics killing the next generation of our America. Tea anyone?

Melanie Mills has been a registered nurse (RN) for 7 years, and a pro-life advocate and speaker for 3 years. Melanie has given expert RN testimony for House and Senate bills in Missouri and Illinois regarding 24-hour waiting, and testified most recently for HB 156 — which would give parents the right to sue a person for taking a minor across state lines for an abortion. Melanie is writing her autobiography, "A Prodigal Woman's Wisdom Shared," which describes her teen pregnancies, her journey to becoming an RN, her abortion and post-abortion experience, and her ultimate healing in Jesus Christ.

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