by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• In 2012, a foreign national who traveled from Ireland to Great Britain for an abortion died in a taxi cab after having an abortion at a Marie Stopes clinic:
  

  The woman died in January 2012. An inquest has not yet been held into the woman’s death as the police investigation is continuing.

  The woman’s husband, who wishes to remain anonymous, said he was still waiting for answers but was frustrated at the lack of progress.

  “I think if this was an Irish or a British woman, we would know what happened to her. But I am still waiting for answers,” he told the Irish Times in Dublin.

• Ross Douthat on the Texas abortion experiment:
  

  In the first case, many European countries already have versions of Texas’s late-term abortion ban on the books. France, Germany and Italy all ban abortions after the first trimester, and impose waiting periods as well.

  Notably, these nations tend to have lower abortion rates than the United States, and none of them are exactly reactionary dystopias in the style of Margaret Atwood’s “Handmaid’s Tale.” So the European experience suggests that at least some abortion restrictions are compatible with equality and female advancement.

• The man in Ireland who claimed his girlfriend was being forced into an abortion by her family has dropped his attempt to get an injunction after his girlfriend said she wasn’t proceeding with the abortion:
  

  Counsel said the woman had sworn a statement in reply to the man’s claims. While no details contained in the statement were revealed in open court, counsel said his client was “happy to put faith” in the statement and “matters would continue as at present in relation to the pregnancy”.

  The couple, who cannot be identified by order of the court, are both foreign nationals and reside in Ireland.

  They sat beside each other and held hands during the short hearing.

by LauraLoo

Nada Al-Ahdal, an immensely smart and courageous 11-year-old Yemeni girl, is an inspiration to me. 

Sometimes common sense screams “Run!” and you just cannot obey your parents when they don’t have your best interest at heart.  Case in point:  Nada’s mom wants to marry her off to a much older man.  God bless her uncle who is willing to care for his niece!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J7_TKgw1To[/youtube]

This is tragic on so many levels.  When I was 11, my life consisted of getting good grades in school, keeping my room clean, helping my mom around the house and playing with my best friend.  I didn’t have adult worries, like my mom marrying me off to a pedophile.

Who cannot shed a tear for this young soul, who would rather kill herself than lose her dreams for a normal childhood?

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I just have to show these.

So, just in case that ever happens again ladies, you can just bring them on your earrings.

~ MSNBC contributor Melissa Harris Perry, in an act of protest against the Texas state legislature, Newsbusters, July 21

[Click photo to enlarge; video at the link]

I have a new poll question up:

Researchers have found a way to “shut off” the extra chromosome leading to Down syndrome. If in the future parents can avert DS, do you think they should?

Our last poll question was:

The fate of at least 3 abortion clinics that are the sole providers in their state hangs in the balance. Will we finally see an abortion-free state in 2013?

A majority of you said yes….

As always, make comments to either the previous or current poll here, not on the Poll Daddy website.

Here were my favorite cartoons this past week. Be sure to vote for your fav in the poll at the bottom of the post!

We start with a couple late additions to the “Liberal spin on pro-life victory in Texas” edition from last week….

by Matt Davies at GoComics.com…

 by Steve Benson at GoComics.com…

 and then back to reality, by Lisa Benson at Townhall.com…

 moving on to the week’s biggest news, by Gary Varvel at Townhall.com…

 and closing with a twofer by Michael Ramirez at Townhall.com…

Students for Life of America’s Brendan O’Morchoe showed me this photo yesterday, staged and snapped by pro-life students at a Planned Parenthood rally in Austin, Texas, last week. I thought it was the best pic I’d seen of Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards – ever! Click to enlarge…

Live in me, and I will live in you. A branch cannot produce any fruit by itself. It has to stay attached to the vine. In the same way, you cannot produce fruit unless you live in me.

I am the vine. You are the branches. Those who live in me while I live in them will produce a lot of fruit. But you can’t produce anything without me.

~ Jesus speaking, John 15:4-5, God’s Word translation

by Hans Johnson

Spring cleaning was a bit eventful this year for Eric Cloutier of Laguna Niguel, California, when he sold an old watch box for $10, not knowing that in it was his wife’s $23,000 diamond wedding ring.

As his wife Racquel told ABC News:

Every year our community holds a garage sale. I was in the hospital. I just had a baby. So my husband thought it would be fun for my other kids if they could sell some things at the garage sale.

He didn’t know that before I went to the hospital, I put my ring in that box. I wanted the ring to be in a safe place and out of reach from my 2-year-old twins.

Upon her return:

I go into my husband’s closet, can’t find the box, and then he tells me he sold it. I said, ‘You sold it? What do you mean you sold it?’ I immediately started crying.

From CNN:

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Amazingly, Alyssa Lassau had read their story and emailed them, because her mother was the one who bought the box  (which had apparently been bargained down to $5) and she had given it to her.

Good Morning America has the meeting of the two women.

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[HT: TheBlaze]