What interests people always interests me. Some posts that I think are not so amazing spark lots of activity and vice versa. So here were my top 10 most read posts of 2013. Thanks to Kelli for researching these stats.

10. March for Life 2013: A picture is worth 650,000 words (January 26)

9. Most offensive pro-abortion ad ever – “Happy 40th Anniversary Baby” – PULLED (January 29)

8. Kim Kardashian: Pregnancy not as easy as it looks (March 20)

7. Would it be legal to abort this baby? (April 3)

6. Autopsy photos released of teen who died during “safe and legal” abortion (January 9)

5. Breaking, photos: TX abortionist impales, twists heads off live babies (May 15)

4. Christian university retaliates against pro-life student for showing graphic reality of abortion (June 5)

3. Four reasons why media isn’t covering Gosnell mass murder trial (April 11)

2. Raped, impregnated 13-year-old keeps baby (February 11)

1. Breaking: Carhart’s victims identified (February 10)

Always fascinating, comments to posts often delve away from the original topic. It may not be the post itself that triggers high reader response but the readers themselves. Here were the most commented posts of 2013.

Thanks again to Kelli for researching these stats.

10. ABQ 20-week abortion ban proponents: We’ll be back (November 20; 221 comments)

9. Stanek weekend question II: Should photo of teen mom holding son be banned from yearbook? (May 4; 222 comments)

8. Stanek weekend question: Is it acceptable to out the mother or father of one’s aborted child? (June 1; 224 comments)

7. Stanek (early) weekend question: Are pro-life marches a waste of time? (February 1; 228 comments)

6. Pro-abortion NAACP claims Zimmerman violated Trayvon’s right to life (July 15; 238 comments)

5. Stanek weekend question: Women get abortions every day, so it’s okay? (November 23; 239 comments)

4. Breaking: Carhart’s victims identified (February 10; 264 comments)

3. Stanek Sunday funnies 12-22-13 (December 22; 353 comments)

2. Clinic escort mom blogs about helping daughter get an abortion (September 17; 380 comments)

1. Alternative “Mama’s Day” ecards feature gay, transgendered, incarcerated parents (May 13; 548 comments)

by Carder

Some of the free preventive care would probably help some. But a 62-year-old woman doesn’t need maternity. She doesn’t need abortion.

~ Medicare beneficiary Ted Baumgartner, giving a mixed review of the “benefits” of Obamacare after spending more than 80 hours online attempting to sign up his wife on the insurance exchanges, ABC News, January 1

[HT: Hot Air]

by Hans Johnson

The first baby of a new year has always been considered good luck for a family or village. Often gifts and money were awarded to the parents. But under Obamacare, it may no longer be a financially lucky event.

Said a representative for the insurance industry: “Deductibles accumulate on an annual basis, so claims for 2013 accrue until December 31st and then start again for 2014.” That means a double whammy for the same medical condition – and that would include pregnancies.

At least this would make it even less likely for couples to go to extreme lengths like this one in the film New Year’s Eve:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/JWAzfgrn484[/youtube]

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We thought she had gone. I had grieved for that baby and we’d just managed to get our heads around it.

Anthony and I felt like we’d made the right decision because we were having problems and we didn’t think it was right to bring a baby into that. I’d always been one of those people that was against abortions and hated them, but I was suffering with postnatal depression…. But it was not an easy decision and I regretted it straight away.

She’s obviously a little fighter, and we don’t want to cause it any more harm. When I had the abortion it didn’t feel the same as it does now – we have seen her and she has a heartbeat.

~ 19-year-old Shannon Skinner, who had a chemical abortion via Marie Stopes International at 8 weeks of pregnancy only to find months later that she was still pregnant with a second daughter, due in May, as quoted by The Daily Mail Online, December 31

Marie Stopes’ response? “Very occasionally, the medical abortion pill can fail. Cases like this are few and far between but of course that does not make the situation any the less upsetting.”

[Photo by Jon Kent/SWNS.com via Daily Mail]

by LauraLoo

Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, registered nurse Dreonna Breton was fired from her job after she refused a mandatory flu vaccine for fear it could potentially harm her preborn child.

The Bretons, along with their 19-month-old son, Westen, do not regret her decision.  After going through two miscarriages, she didn’t want to take any chances.

“We know we did the right thing,” Dreonna said.

“It was very emotional,” she said of her miscarriages in March and June. “It’s not something I’ve gotten over. I mean, we put ornaments on our tree for the babies.”

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[HT: Fox32 Chicago]

by Carder

The Sundance Film Festival this January will feature a film focused on an abortion. The romantic comedy Obvious Child follows Donna, a young woman who gets fired, dumped, and pregnant all before Valentine’s Day. Unlike the lead characters in Juno and Knocked Up, Donna chooses to abort her baby.

The abortion, the crux but not focus of the film, is her attempt to “make better choices,” according to the film’s promotional page on Kickstarter.com.

~ Courtney Crandell, World Mag, December 30

[Photo Via Fashion Plus Lifestyle]

by LauraLoo

As posted by Oregon Right to Life…

Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest is more active in our local schools than many of us realize. Bryan Platt of Jackson County Right to Life sheds light on Planned Parenthood’s clandestine tactics and why they were thrown out of the Eagle Point School District.

Do you know if Planned Parenthood is active in your child’s school?

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