Good morning, and Happy Sunday! Here were my top five favorite political cartoons this week. Be sure to vote for your fav in the poll at the end of this post!

We begin with a cartoon a bit out of our norm, an illustration by Rod Anderson at the Christian Post to accompany its article, “Will sheer numbers win the abortion fight?”, about a study by researchers at Northwestern University indicating pro-lifers are winning the abortion fight simply by having more babies than abortion proponents…

 by Steve Kelley at Townhall.com…

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

• Culture Campaign reports on a new study from Northwestern University which “compar[ed] the birth rates of abortion advocates to the rest of Americans” and “conclude[d] that the shift in public opinion from pro-choice to pro-life since Roe v. Wade is the result of a demographic shift: Pro-abortion women don’t have as many children, or perhaps none.”

There is ample biologic, physiologic, hormonal, and behavioral evidence for fetal and neonatal pain…. [Infants born at 20 weeks and beyond] are the patients that I perform procedures on every day and I can guarantee you that when I put a test tube in and I incubate a patient or put an IV in, they […]

UPDATE 8/14, 12:40p: FoxNews.com is covering this story. 8/13, 3:55p: I reported August 3 that charges against pro-lifer Joseph Holland, a Northwestern University graduate student, were dropped after he was arrested outside Planned Parenthood’s Near North Side in Chicago on July 3. PP staffers claimed Holland violated the city’s bubble zone ordinance, although video showed […]

The Thomas More Society has just announced great news: This afternoon, in a wake of national interest in the case, TMS secured a dismissal of all charges against the first arrestee under the city’s “bubble zone” ordinance, which prevents certain types of picketing activity outside local abortion clinics….

by JivinJ, host of the blog, Michael New responds to [Northwestern University law professor] Andrew Koppelman’s claims that red state policies and the religious right increase abortions: … According to Koppelman, the hostility in red states to both contraception and comprehensive sex education leads to a greater incidence of abortion. Conversely, even though blue states […]

by intern Anne Marie D. One of the greatest contradictions in modern healthcare is the willingness of many health organizations to seek greater quality of life for patients with a particular disease, such as multiple sclerosis, at the expense of forfeiting the quality of life of human embryos. One such organization is the click here….