by Carder

Not only is Williams hilarious and eminently talented, but including a young woman of color in the mix of late-night hosts would also add some much-needed gender and racial diversity to these programs — something they must invest in if they want to remain relevant and continue to offer pointed commentary about contemporary issues.

She isn’t afraid to tackle reproductive health issues.

~ Derrick Clifton explaining why the Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams (pictured right) would be the best choice to replace Jon Stewart, Mic, February 11

Good morning, and Happy Sunday! Here were my top five favorite political cartoons this week. Be sure to vote for your fav in the poll at the bottom of this post!

by Chip Bok at Townhall.com…

 by at John Deering at GoComics.com…

 by Steve Kelley at Townhall.com…

 by Lisa Benson at Townhall.com…

 and closing with a liberal’s slant on current events, by Signe Wilkinson at GoComics.com…

Who is like you?
Who can rescue the weak
from those stronger than they,
the poor and needy
from those who exploit them?

Psalm 35:10, Complete Jewish Bible translation

This week a horrific story was posted at injusticestories.com by “Lana,” who claimed she aborted her late-term baby after discovering he was a boy, because she has serious issues with men:

“It’s a boy”

“What?” I managed to sputter…. I started crying, weeping at the thought of what I was about to curse the world with….

By the third day, I started regaining some of my mental strength and knew what I had to do. I couldn’t bring another monster into the world. We already have enough enemies as it is….

A few days later, I went in for the procedure, as it was fairly later in my pregnancy, I was aware there were certain risks, but it went off without a hitch. My body’s betrayal was no more, I was free…. I felt strong. I had done something positive, something that would actually make a difference, something good….

Now, as ghastly as tha story may sound to the world – which has roundly castigated Lana in the comments section – it should give abortion supporters no qualms, because, as RH Reality Check editor Jodi Jacobson says:

There is no 'good' or 'bad' reason for an abortion, so focusing on 'exceptions' doesn't make sense, says @jljacobson http://t.co/Q9tjDhaZNw

— RH Reality Check (@rhrealitycheck) February 12, 2015

But strangely, some pro-choicers are trying to distance themselves from Lana’s story. The pro-abortion website Jezebel dedicated an entire article to mock it:

A very, very fake story about a feminist who aborted a male fetus out of principle has been circulating wildly this week, even though it’s absurd and even after Snopes looked into it and determined it “probably false.”

Why would Lana’s story even attract the attention of Snopes – other than to protect the reputation of pro-choice world?

At any rate, as Jacobson says, aborting mothers need make no excuses for reasons why they abort, so abortion supporters should have no problem standing by Lana, right?

She sees social butterflying as part of her job. “That’s where I get my ideas. I don’t get my ideas from reading other people,” she says. “I talked to the daughter of a friend of mine the other day who is at an Ivy League college. And I said, ‘Tell me about life and what’s going on.’

“And she said that she and her friends all go out on Friday night. They hook up, and then they all go down to the medical center the next morning and take Plan B together.

“And I was like, There’s the story.” (Coles reminds me that Cosmo is not “judgy” about women’s sex lives.)

~ New York Magazine, February 10, quoting Cosmopolitan editor Joanna Coles, pictured above

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

• Kansans for Life calls out the media for biased reporting on the cost of defending pro-life laws in Kansas – with headlines like “$1.2 million paid in attorney fees to defend anti-abortion laws.” Maybe if the abortion lobby didn’t continue bringing the lawsuits, the state – which is continually winning, by the way – wouldn’t have to pay any attorney fees. Problem solved, eh?

• Abstinence Clearinghouse says “children as young as ten-years old have been given a contraceptive implant by the National Health Service, regardless of the fact that they are under the age of consent.” And going beyond this, the NHS doesn’t even have to tell the 10-year-old’s parents – because fifth-graders are so very mature, apparently:
  

  If you’re under 16 and want contraception, the doctor, nurse or pharmacist won’t tell your parents (or carer) as long as they believe you fully understand the information you’re given, and your decisions.

Hmm. To what other drugs or medical procedures does this apply, I wonder? UK parents, take note. “Free” government services may come at the price of you not being told about something that can damage your child’s health.

• Bound4Life features an interview with Dr. Michael New, whose “unimpeachable research: interpreting data on the number of abortions, abortion rates, and the effectiveness of pro-life advocacy to save lives” is well respected in the academic and pro-life communities.
• The Vine recaps the chilling cases of doctors deciding that infants and children with disabilities no longer need to live. In some cases, lifesaving treatment is withheld, and in others, it is removed, along with hydration and nutrition.

• Big Blue Wave says Ottawa abortionist Dr. Michel Ronald Prevost (pictured right) has resigned after being found “incompetent in his practice of obstetrics and gynecology”:
  

  “He displayed a lack of judgment and patients were exposed to harm or injury in his failure to properly screen patients for medical terminations, in his failure to calculate doses of Methotrexate on the basis of his patients’ respective body surface areas, and in his failure to follow up with patients, including when he was aware that patients had on-going gestations after the administration of Methotrexate,” the decision said. “In the cases of ongoing gestations, the patients’ fetuses were exposed to risk of harm, in that they were exposed to Methotrexate and Misoprostol.”

[Photos via sheknows.com and cbc.ca]

by Kelli

Created Equal shares another video from an outreach to high school students, one of whom admits her aunt “would’ve had like, seven kids, if it wasn’t for, like, abortions… and I never knew what it looked like.”

While there is great controversy surrounding CE’s outreaches, doesn’t it stand to reason that if these same students can legally have abortions, they should be aware of the end results of abortion? What do you think?

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Think 20-week abortion bans aren't a serious attack on women's health, nationwide? Think again. pic.twitter.com/EunPs2suWD

— Planned Parenthood Action (@PPact) February 9, 2015

The abortion lobby isn’t quite sure how to smear those 20-week abortion bans that are sweeping the country.

So on one hand you’ll see Planned Parenthood claim 20 million women are being negatively impacted by bans on abortions past 20 weeks.

And on the other you’ll see Guttmacher claim these same abortions are “very rare”:

[L]ater abortions are very rare: In 2011, the most recent year for which there is sound data, only about 13,000 women terminated their pregnancies after 20 weeks, out of a total of about 1.06 million abortions.

I wouldn’t call 35.6 late-term abortions a day – or 1.5 an hour, every hour of the year – “very rare.”

But it’s exaggerating on on exaggerated scale to claim 20 million American women want them but can’t get them.

Which is it, abortion people?

There’s also Planned Parenthood’s assertion in its tweet that a ban on abortions past 20 weeks is a “serious attack on women’s health” (just another variation of the “war on women” meme, I note as an aside).

Actually, it’s quite the contrary. The risk of maternal mortality skyrockets when abortions are committed after 20 weeks (click to enlarge)…

Even when they try to avoid discussing the fetal victims of late-term abortions, they still fail on promoting them as a perk for women.

[HT for mortality chart: Clarke Forsythe of AUL]