St
Louis radio station draws attention to Hope Clinic
Wednesday,
May 07, 2003
By
The Leader -- Southern
Illinois Bureau
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Angela
Michaels speaks with an expectant mother outside Hope
Clinic in Granite City. This mom decided to keep her baby. |
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Michaels'
provides access to a nearby ob/gyn office for consultation
for women who are seeking more information before aborting
their children. |
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A
baby who was rescued from an abortion at Hope Clinic |
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ST
LOUIS -- Sparks flew recently on popular St. Louis area's KXOK
97.1FM David Glover's radio program when a controversy concerning
Granite City's Hope Clinic erupted on the air.
The
controversy began when Highland IL's Angela Michaels, who has a
regularly-scheduled radio program each Tuesday on Christian station
KJSL 630AM, was a guest on Glover's program.
Glover,
the show's host, said, "I expected a big response to the program
as people always respond to second amendment and abortion because
they are very impassioned about these issues."
But
even he was surprised at the number of e-mails and call-ins in response
to the program. Glover said he felt there was genuine concern about
the topic.
Michaels'
comments created controversy with the people at Hope Clinic when
she told of what Michael's called "wrong doings." The
clinic advertises its abortion services on the Metro bi-state area's
radio broadcasts.
Angela
Michaels and her husband Daniel stand outside of the Hope Clinic
in Granite City every day of the week, urging women entering the
clinic not to abort their babies.
Michaels'
presence irritates the clinic operators. "She encamps herself
around that clinic every day" one of the talk show phone callers
said on the Glover show.
Angela
Michaels appearance on Glover's program created a reaction from
the show's audience, so Glover asked Michaels to return back for
a two hour segment.
On
the evening scheduled for the appearance, Angela had an emergency
and she asked her husband Daniel to do the radio show for her.
"Everything
happened Tues. night when I was to be there. . . I received word
that one of our people from our ministry had been in an accident
and I was needed immediately at the hospital, so my husband Daniel
went to the radio studio in my place," Michaels said. "It
must have been a great program according to the reports I heard
about the number of women who called in anxious to tell their story
about how they had been hurt so badly due to having an abortion."
Sally
Burgess, director of the Hope Clinic, was also a guest on the program
for the Tuesday night broadcast. When Burgess said that the cliic
did not perform abortions past 24 weeks of pregnancy, the phone
lit up. She also sparked a response when she said that Hope Clinic's
personnel used "great compassion and care" with their
clients.
One
person responded by accusing Burgess of lying. The caller said that
she was over 24 weeks pregnant when Hope Clinic performed her abortion
and challenged her to point out the compassion the clinic workers
used.
"Where
was the compassion?" the female caller asked, "I felt
everything. I bled all over the car all the way home and my parents
rushed me to DePaul Hospital in St. Louis. I was 17 years old and
had a punctured uterus. My parents were told I may never have children."
Melanie
Mills, who is suing Dr. Yogendra Shah, the Hope Clinic abortionist,
called into the program and told of the trauma she suffered thinking
she had killed her unborn child. After three years of personal agony,
Mills discovered
Dr.
Shah had committed the abortion on her and she was not pregnant
at the time.
The
Hope Clinic staffer Burgess said that she is not new to the abortion
business. She began her career in Salt Lake, Utah. From there she
went to Kansas City and has been in Illinois at the $2 million dollar
abortion facility in Granite City for several years.
"There
are so many improprieties that could be said about the Granite City
abortion mill that the public show know," Angela Michaels told
the Illinois Leader.
"For
example, Miles Jones is the founder of the baby parts factory in
West Frankfort that was featured on the 20/20 television program.
The factory was shut down due to the efforts and revelations of
Mark Crutcher and Life Dynamics. The Miles Jones who owns the body
parts distribution center is the same Miles Jones that is works
as Hope Clinic's pathologist."
Michaels reports 157 babies were aborted last week alone at Hope
Clinic in Granite City. Five women decided not to abort their
babies when Michaels' and her "Small
Victories" prayer warriors outside the clinic
influenced the expectant mothers not to abort their babies. Michaels
claims that 640 babies have been saved since January, 2000.
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