by Carder

My biggest regret is I didn’t have children. I had an abortion in my 20s. I was pregnant, and I didn’t have enough money and I didn’t think it was ok to have a child and be a single parent. And now look, everybody’s doing that!

I didn’t find the right guy at the right time to have one with, I guess.

~ Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger answering questions from fans during an interview, via OK! Magazine, December 26

Here’s the last weekly round-up of my favorite funnies for 2013! Be sure to vote for your favorite in the poll at the bottom of the post. Happy New Year!

by Gary McCoy at Townhall.com…

 by Glenn McCoy at GoComics.com…

 by Gary Varvel at Townhall.com…

 by Steve Kelley at GoComics.com (yes, in case you hadn’t heard, A&E has had second thoughts and unsuspended Phil Robertson, the patriarch of its biggest money-maker, Duck Dynasty)…

 by Dan Wasserman at GoComics.com…

But the Lord’s love for those who respect him continues forever and ever, and his goodness continues to their grandchildren.

~ Psalm 103:17, New Century Version

[JLS note: This is my verse for 2014. Have you picked one? What is yours? Photo above is of my eight grandsons; #9 grandchild (via Daena and Andy) is due this June!]

by Hans Johnson

Sitting in a front pew  Christmas Day at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Miami Beach, Florida, was famous pro-life tenor Andrea Bocelli. He sang “Adeste Fideles” and “Silent Night”.

He said to WSVN: “For Christmas, I want absolutely to have a Mass. And for this occasion, if they ask me to sing, I sing. I’m happy about it.”

And so were the parisihioners.

WSVN-TV – 7NEWS Miam Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Deco

See Bocelli perform “Adeste Fideles”  in concert here.
Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: TheBlaze]

This past year saw great successes in the pro-life movement’s fight to stop abortion, beginning with the January 14 Time magazine cover story, which set the tone.

What do you think the top pro-life story of the year was? After I get several suggestions, I’ll post a poll.

2. We cheered on Wendy Davis as she led a one-woman filibuster against Rick Perry’s dangerous abortion law:

She took a stand for all Texas women, and it was amazing. But what was even more inspiring? The thousands who stood with her, in Texas and across the country:

~ Planned Parenthood’s attempt to make lemonade from a Texas-sized lemon, #2 of “5 reasons women’s health supporters had a great 2013,” Buzz Feed, December 23

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

We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• Big Blue Wave discusses a study on the effects of sex selection in Taiwan. The study seems to suggest that since the girls who manage to make it to birth are treated to a university education, there is no problem.
• The Guiding Star Project shares the story of a board member who struggled with infertility and miscarriage until she found a doctor who used natural procreative technology (NaPro).
• Secular Pro-Life features their top ten graphics for this year.
• Euthanasia Prevention Coalition posts an article by Wesley J. Smith regarding how assisted suicide legislation becomes law through deception:
  

  Advocates of assisted suicide tell two — no, three — lies that act as the honey to help the hemlock go down. The first is that assisted suicide/euthanasia is a strictly medical act. Second, they falsely assure us that medicalized killing is only for the terminally ill. Finally, they promise that strict guidelines will be rigorously enforced to protect against abuse.Smith points to countries and states that introduced assisted suicide by promising these things and how quickly those assurances were abandoned. Case in point: the state of Vermont, which passed assisted suicide laws with safeguards built in… until 2016, that is. After 2016, doctors will be on the “honor system.”

• The Leading Edge tells the five falsehoods that pro-choicers think they know about pro-lifers but really don’t:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/pbLRss5CCRg[/youtube]

by LauraLoo

Planned Parenthood Arizona decided to wish everyone Happy Holidays and a wonderful 2014 by singing a truly cringe-worthy original song, “The 12 Days of Contraception,” written by staff and performed by volunteers.

Leave it to Planned Parenthood to attempt to tie preventing and aborting pregnancy into the birth of Jesus Christ.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0KJpG857NA[/youtube]

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: Kelli]