by LauraLoo

Woodlan’s warrior – sophomore Nik Hoot – recently took third place in the 113-pound weight class at the ACAC wrestling tournament.  But the fact that Nik is wrestling at all is itself nothing short of a miracle.

Nik is a well-rounded athlete in spite of the fact that he is missing parts of both legs and doesn’t have a fully developed set of fingers. He lives with these physical disabilities because his biological parents – an unknown couple from Russia – attempted to abort Nik. The abortion didn’t take and in the fall of 1996 Nik was born – he was put up for adoption shortly thereafter:

The human spirit that does not have a defeatist attitude – we can ALL learn from people like Nik!

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[HT: Andy Moore]

Olympic skier Bode Miller is embroiled in a bitter fight with ex-girlfriend Sara McKenna over the custody of their month-old son, and things are getting ugly. McKenna is telling the world that the gold medalist once pushed her to have an abortion. It’s one of the reasons she says the new papa shouldn’t get custody … one of the silliest reasons, that is.

Sure, abortion is a touchy subject. But you know that babies change people, right? It happens all. The. Time.

~ Jeanne Sager suggesting that it is possible for men who originally wanted to have their children aborted (like Miller, pictured) to become good fathers, The Stir, March 7

Following are my top five favorite political cartoons for the week. Vote for your favorite in the poll at the bottom of the post.

by Glenn McCoy at Townhall.com…

 a twofer by Steve Kelley at Townhall.com…

 by Jerry Holbert at Townhall.com…

 by Steve Breen at Townhall.com…

Little by little I will force them out of your way until you have increased enough in number to take possession of the land.

~ Exodus 23:30, God’s Word translation

by Hans Johnson

Andrea’s father passed away last year before her wedding took place. So her grandfather, brothers Luke and Nick, and father-in-law Scott stood in for the father-daughter dance.

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

Andrea discusses the video on Inside Edition.

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Scientists met this week in New York to discuss recent scientific evidence regarding abortion as a form of growing violence against women and girls.

In this context, the scientists assembled in New York voiced their concern in regards to the alarming expansion of abortion as a form of violence against women in the world, something that should not be dismissed by any nation that respects fundamental human rights.

~ Science 2.0, March 8

by Kelli

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• Pro-Life Action League reports on a huge free speech victory for pro-lifers in Rockford, Illinois, home of the infamously profane (and thankfully, now closed) Northern Illinois Women’s Center:
  

  The settlement comes after more than five years of federal litigation stemming from harassment of pro-life individuals and other federal civil rights violations on the part of some members of the Rockford Police Department.

  As part of the terms of the settlement, Rockford police officers will be required to attend a training program on citizens’ First Amendment rights, with the specific aim of preventing wrongful arrest of citizens for taking part in constitutionally-protected activities.

• According to Culture Campaign, the House voted yesterday to “[pass] the ‘continuing resolution’ (CR) legislation to fund the budgetless federal government for the rest of the fiscal year including funding for ObamaCare to force Christians to fund abortifacients, sterilization, contraceptives, etc. Fourteen Republicans voted against the bill.”

• Down on the Pharm says another company, Sioux Chief Manufacturing, has won an injunction against Obamacare’s HHS contraceptive mandate. That makes 12 victories against the mandate so far.
• At Live Action, Rebecca Downs notes that even Planned Parenthood is objecting to the new NYC teen pregnancy prevention campaign featuring questionable ads, saying the signs create “hostility” toward teen pregnancy and provide little more than “shock value.”
• Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life writes that the Minnesota House has passed an amendment to remove abortion coverage from the state’s Obamacare exchanges.
• Euthanasia Prevention Coalition shares a letter from a former Montana senator who points out that since assisted suicide became legal in Oregon, the overall suicide rates in the state have increased greatly, with the rate now 35% above the national average.
• Jivin J says a judge has overturned Idaho’s 20-week pain-capable abortion law.
• Clinic Quotes provides a heartbreaking 2005 statement from a Chinese abortionist describing her experience with infanticide:
  

  The child was alive after the abortion…. [Another doctor] got a bucket of water and put the child into it… [for] about half an hour…. But the child got back its breath again and burst into crying. The life force of the child was too indomitable…. She then fill the washing basin in the room, which was bigger than the bucket, and put the child into the water again for another half an hour.

  After all this, I did not use the washing basin for a long time. For a long time, I felt terrible.

• Big Blue Wave highlights a video about little Elijah Leffingwell, who had “a complex, high-risk operation that required taking Elijah partly out of his mother’s womb just halfway through her pregnancy [and] then remov[ing] a mass the size of an orange from Elijah’s lung:

by LauraLoo

It was a year ago when Jessica Simpson, pregnant with daughter Maxwell, visited Jimmy Kimmel‘s show.  Pregnant again, Jessica revisited this week, discussing differences between her pregnancies, the baby’s gender, and marriage.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flWiUh2OjW0[/youtube]

Part 2

Part 3

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