Men are turning their backs on “the snip” as a form of contraception, according to the latest figures. The number of vasectomies has dropped by more than half in ten years, while abortions among older women have risen, say experts.

NHS cutbacks may have contributed to the fall, with some areas rationing “non-essential” operations.

~ Jenny Hope, Daily Mail, November 12

by LauraLoo

Check out the new promo video for the Stayin’ Alive Pro-Life Summer Training Day coming up December 1 in Auckland, New Zealand.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtcEZUGEQH0[/youtube]

Funny to be featuring summer training when winter is about one month away in the U.S.  :)

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: Jill]

Left-liberalism seeks to present the Irish position on abortion as obscurantist for reasons relating to blind obedience to the Catholic Church. But this fails fundamentally to understand either religion or abhorrence of abortion. Catholics are people who understand reality in a particular way, not people who have been given a list of things they must believe in.

One sees man as flawed, fragile but redeemable, the other sees a species perfectible by its own endeavors, for which all things are possible through the imposition of individual “rights.”

~ John Waters, ilsussidiario.net, November 19

Here were my top six favorite cartoons this week, starting with a twofer by Nate Beeler at Townhall.com…

 by Steve Kelley at GoComics.com…

 by Michael Ramirez at Townhall.com…

 by Glenn McCoy at Townhall.com…

 and finally, a reminder of the insane world pro-lifers negotiate, a cartoon by liberal Joel Pett, equating our movement, which simply strives to save innocent babies from being slaughtered, with the Taliban, at GoComics.com…

I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring,
     and my blessing on your descendants.
They will spring up like grass in a meadow,
     like poplar trees by flowing streams.

~ Isaiah 44:3b-4, New International Version

Our weekend question today comes from moderator Tyler, who writes:

I am astonished why so many people fail to appreciate that four Americans were killed in Libya. I believe this is a pro-life issue.  The respect for the lives of these Americans seems to be lost on the MSM, and even the general/world wide public.

The question is: Do Americans still value born life?

Check out this video of John McCain.  Why does he have answer such questions and emphasize the loss of life that has taken place in Benghazi?  Why doesn’t the MSM appreciate the seriousness of what happened?

Video intro, from YouTube: “After being asked whether the Petraeus scandal was a bigger national security threat than the Benghazi consulate attack, John McCain coldly tells a reporter, ‘That’s one of the dumbest questions I’ve ever heard.'”…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiccOeBvAT0&sns=em[/youtube]

Things were not going well between us and it was a mutual decision. I don’t think that it was easy for either one of us. I think it was a very difficult and poor choice and I think that there are probably regrets both ways.

~ 2001 divorce testimony of Republican Tennessee Congressman Scott DesJarlais, who professes to be pro-life, describing the after-affects of one of two of his children that his ex-wife aborted, as quoted by the Associated Press, November 15.

DesJarlais won his November 6 re-election bid despite revelations that he had pressured a former flame to get an abortion. News of his wife’s abortions came after the election,

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.

• Secular Pro-Life spots an employment ad seeking an abortionist for an apparently “lucrative” position with American Women’s Services, which “operates sixteen abortion offices on the East Coast.” And doctors don’t even have to have GYN training – what luck!

• Women’s Rights Without Frontiers explains that despite reports to the contrary, China has not abandoned coerced abortions or their One-Child Policy. With the country’s demographic winter on he horizon, a think tank is recommending easing into a two-child policy, then abandoning the policy by 2020. This, however, is only a recommendation and would not end the problems of coercion and gendercide.

• Voice for Hope takes on critics after receiving a barrage of “Biblical” pro-choice justifications for abortion after posting a pro-life, Christian graphic (pictured left) on Facebook.
• John Smeaton discusses Savita Halappanavar’s death, which is being blamed (by abortion advocates) on Ireland’s strict abortion law. Smeaton disagrees with pro-life Catholic commentators who claim that it would have been acceptable to induce labor:
  

  Savita was in the 17th week of pregnancy. There is no scientific evidence that unborn children are capable of surviving outside the womb at such a young age. If the doctor in Savita’s case had agreed to induce her child, he would have been performing an abortion. The principle of double-effect would not have justified inducing Savita….

  Smeaton also states that there are alternatives to induction which were not exercised in this case.

• Michael New responds to a new “study” which claims that states with incremental pro-life laws have higher levels of abortion clinic harassment:
  

  The authors fail to consider that… even though individual clinics in conservative states are more likely to report various forms of harassment — the fact there are fewer clinics in conservative states might mean that the actual amount of harassment might be relatively similar in conservative and liberal states.

  Interestingly, despite all its shortcomings, the study finds that there was no statistically significant difference in clinic-violence rates between the most “pro-life” states and the most “pro-choice” states. There was some evidence that clinics in “pro-life” states had a higher rate of minor vandalism. However, even in the most conservative states, only a small percentage of clinics reported any kind of vandalism. Of course, these facts will go unreported in the mainstream media.

• Reflections of a Paralytic posts a cartoon pointing out a double standard that is alive and well (pictured right).
• Moral Outcry examines Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards’ post-election statements against states like Texas, who are attempting to defund the organization:
  

  The president of Planned Parenthood wants you to know, “There’s no better place in America to make sure that women have an opportunity than at Planned Parenthood.”

  Yeah, you heard that right. According to Cecile Richards in San Antonio Current, abortion gives women opportunity. I suppose her reasoning is that if a woman’s birth control fails, or she forgets to use it — or simply doesn’t want to — then she has an out called abortion, aka killing your unborn baby so that you can continue with your opportunity. Discussing the election and then pointing her fingers at Texas, Richards asserts that a world without Planned Parenthood just wouldn’t be a good place.

• At The New Feminism, Marjorie Murphy Campbell excoriates both political parties as “delusional,” claiming neither understands women and the realities they face today. She also makes the questionable claim that, for “most women,” “abortion and contraception are not moral issues. They are issues of survival.” The prevalence of single parent households (some by choice) is a sad reality, but the fact that one political party made free contraceptives a campaign issue (and won) is even more disturbing.
• Stand for Life shares a pro-adoption ad during National Adoption Month, which is running on the Oxygen Network:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnKuUfZE11k[/youtube]