“O Roman people be ashamed...Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us” ~William Federer  Adapted from 5^th century Salvian historian

Another late-term abortion that began on Good Friday at the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois, once known for its towering steel mills, now known for the Midwest’s largest baby dumping mill, didn’t go as planned. Once again, we pleaded “mercy” as mostly out-of-state mothers with protruding tummies stood in line to sign the death warrants out on their innocent babies. We were surprised to see so many on this day of reverence. But, nowadays, most of the American Church is participating in and undergoing these late-term abortions. They could care less that this was considered Holy Week and the day that 2000 years ago an innocent man named Jesus was hung on a cross and crucified for our sins and died for us.

We arose early on Holy Saturday morning and prepared the way to the City of Slaughter . The sun began dawning in the bitter cold with 25 mile-an-hour winds which made it feel like 15 degrees above zero, as we set up the pregnancy resource ultrasound van. Mothers began arriving soon thereafter. It didn’t take long for our lips to freeze as we attempted to plead the case of the fatherless.

We spotted a white car on the Hope Clinic parking lot and noticed the personalized license plate. They were here the day before to begin the late-term grisly two-day abortion procedure. The two young women got out of the car and walked into the guard shack to sign the death warrant out on their innocent baby and proceeded inside the clinic.

About twenty seconds later, the driver and Hope(less) employee Ryan Goski came walking out of the clinic back to the car. Our red flags went up. The woman opened up the driver’s side door to unlatch the trunk, which Ryan then opened. We questioned him, “What’s inside the trunk?” Our question was soon answered to our horror as he hurriedly grabbed a bloodied, brown bag out of the trunk and nervously walked back inside the abortion mill with the driver. He tried to hide the bag from us so we wouldn’t be able to photograph it. You could see the weight of the baby as the body was slung low in the bloody bag.

The driver followed his lead and kept her head down as they rushed back inside this house of horrors. It was hard to fathom how a mother, let alone a human being, could treat another little human being as if it were trash. We tell these mothers and fathers, “We should be laying our lives down for our children, not our children laying their lives down for our selfish desires.”         

Abortionist Yogendra Shah didn’t arrive for another 65 minutes. Only the butcherettes were inside.

We were reminded of other inhumane incidents when little babies were discarded in such a barbaric fashion. Most recently in Granite City , was the “football baby” that was delivered in a local motel and the young couple placed it in a plastic bag and brought it to the abortion mill. As they approached the deathguard shack, the nervous young man dropped the bag and the baby spewed onto the walkway. Before we could focus our camera, the guard yelled for the male accomplice to, “Kick it! Kick it in here.” And he obliged by repeatedly kicking the baby girl inside where they held up until another butcherette came out and helped all three get inside.

It is horrible how we allow others to treat the most helpless and vulnerable in our society. We have truly lost all morality and respect for life. We are in all honesty a “throw-away society”. What disheartens and concerns us the most are the effects that such traumatic incidents will have on these mothers and accomplices. The death merchants can soothe their consciences with drugs, alcohol, perverse lifestyles, and the love of money.

When moms and dads are actively participating in the premeditated murder of their own flesh and blood and can come face to face with this in the middle of the night on the bathroom floor and slip these transparent, perfectly formed, tiny bodies into a sack or plastic bag and nonchalantly bring it to the abortion mill the following morning, it’s the slow progression of a dying conscience. We might also call it a condition, that it is the disease of the soul and it is that disease that produces ingrained habits so deep that they amount to a bondage or a kind of slavery. The core problem is not our bothersome habit of doing wrong so much as the underlying condition that plagues the human soul They don’t feel anything. They are apathetic and complacent. There is no right, no wrong. Anything goes. If it feels good, do it. If it doesn’t, you kill it. The answer for everything seems to be money and violence.

And our silence and inaction is destroying our nation. Silence kills

We look for the enemy and all we have to do is look in the mirror. We are the reason why this exists. We are the cause of the violence. Abortion was supposed to be the cure-all for everything in the 70s. Child abuse was supposed to decrease. Instead, it has sky-rocketed over 200% since 1973.

We’re rippin’ people apart in the womb, and we’re wondering why people are getting ripped off in the streets? Hosea 4:2 “Bloodshed pursues bloodshed.” As Operation Save America director Flip Benham has said, “When you sow bloodshed in the womb, you will reap it in the streets.”

The Church of Jesus Christ turns a blind eye to what is happening right underneath their noses. And the stench is overwhelming. How much more lower can we possibly sink, when we allow children to be murdered right before our very eyes and entombed in a bag and tossed into the trunk of a car, only to be dissected and, what is not sold to the highest bidder, flushed into the sewers of Granite City? How can we point our finger at other nations where genocide is actively practiced when our hands are full of the blood of over 50 million innocent human beings? And no end is in sight. Why, we don’t even blush!  Jeremiah 6:15. How many more babies must we watch being murdered right before our eyes and treated like common garbage? Do we still consider ourselves a civilized society?

I am tempted to believe it is time as in the book of Jeremiah when God told Jeremiah to quit praying for the Israelites so that He could come and destroy them for their wickedness. Jeremiah 14:11 “Then the Lord said to me, ‘Do not pray for the well-being of this people.’” We don’t have to worry about terrorists destroying our nation. We and the American Church are doing a fine job. The Lord told Jeremiah, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name.” Jeremiah 14:14.  Our nation is going to hell in a hand basket with the permission of the American Church . But, Jeremiah told God, “Our only hope is in you Lord.” The Lord then answered Jeremiah by telling him to tell the people, “If you repent, I will restore you that you may serve me; if you utter worthy words, you will be my spokesperson. Let these people turn to you, but you must not turn to them. I will make you a wall to these people. They will fight against you but will not overcome you, for I am with you to rescue and save you. I will save you from the hands of the wicked and the grasp of the cruel. Jeremiah 15:21.

3 ½ hours later, these women came back out. The mother was very pale and the driver cursed us and threatened us. We told her that she needed to repent “and when that young mother is crying at night in her pillow she needs to call upon the name of Jesus.”

Springtime and Easter has always reminded us of new life and renewal and through Jesus Christ we have the hope of tomorrow... Just as we tell these wounded women as they are walking away from this house of death, “One day we will all have to stand before God. On Judgment Day, what will you say?” We will all have to give an answer.

We may not be able to go and stand at the foot of the Cross where our Lord was crucified, but we, the Church of Jesus Christ can go to the very gates of hell where little boys and girls are being crucified daily. Gates do not attack, they protect. God has promised us that the gates of hell cannot prevail when the Church of Jesus Christ shows up. Matthew 16:18.

“Innocent blood has a voice, and that blood cries out for justice.” Genesis 4:6.

Be encouraged ~Angela