This beauty of a photoshopped graphic accompanied a Think Progress article on December 12, with an equally beautiful title: “Inside the highly sophisticated group that’s quietly making it much harder to get an abortion.” Click to enlarge….

Rock singer Ted Nugent took heat for wondering why those outraged about the grand jury’s decision in Ferguson, Missouri, not to indict a white policeman for killing a black “thug” aren’t equally outraged over black genocide via abortion:

And dont claim that “black lives matter” when you ignore the millions you abort & slaughter each & every day by other blacks. Those of us with a soul do indeed believe black lives matter, as all lives matter. So quit killin each other you f*ckin idiots.

Billboard’s Joe Lynch wrote in response:

Ooof. Hard to say what abortion has to do with any of this, but apparently Nugent is convinced it’s hypocritical to protest gunning down an unarmed teen and be pro-choice. Some might say there’s a significant amount of grey area with regard to the life of an 18-day-old fetus and an 18-year-old man, but not to Professor Nuge.

Do you agree there’s “significant grey area” about killing a very young preborn baby versus killing a teen? Do you think it’s appropriate to remind the black community of its self-annihilation via abortion in relation to other black killings?

Here’s a similar example, comparing the death of Eric Garner after being arrested in NYC, and referring to his last words….

Similarly, there are complaints when pro-lifers compare the Jewish Holocaust to abortion, or slavery.

Thoughts? Also take the poll….

If you really think that my sole consideration for whether I should bring a life into this world was based on how my body would look afterwards, then I am sorry for your lack of logical reasoning skills.

~ Plus-size supermodel Robyn Lawley, clarifying on Facebook her reasoning for carrying her surprise pregnancy to term. In a December 4 Cosmopolitan article, Lawley appeared to say she considered aborting out of concerns for her career and that her body wouldn’t “bounce back.”

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

• Big Blue Wave discusses a Finnish study on reducing suicide risk following abortion. While most in the pro-choice camp deny there is any link at all to an increased risk of suicide, this study recommends a mental health checkup two to three weeks following an abortion. However, the study also noted that while this intervention may have been beneficial, the rate of reduction was not statistically significant.
• The Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform wonders if parents who object to the display of abortion victim images also direct their anger at the graphic sexual displays adorning storefront windows, the graphic sex ed curricula taught in schools, the prevalence of horror movies or the presence of porn shops:
  

  I’ve come to ask the question, “Are you truly trying to protect your children’s innocence? Or are you just trying to protect yourselves from the truth?”

• Bound4Life announces the “first-ever collaboration of leading evangelical pro-life groups, the world’s largest pro-life event — the annual March for Life in Washington, DC — will feature a non-denominational prayer and worship gathering called OneVoiceDC as a central element of the two-day event on January 21-22, 2015.” Please register online for this event.
• At Ethika Politika, Laurie DeRose examines the claim that greater female empowerment results in fewer children.
• The FRC Blog points out says that by anyone’s count, pro-lifers are winning:
  

  According to the Guttmacher Institute (ironically, once the research arm of the country’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood), “In 2013 alone, 22 states enacted 70 antiabortion measures, including pre-viability abortion bans, unwarranted doctor and clinic regulations, limits on the provision of medication abortion and bans on insurance coverage of abortion. However, 2013 was not even the year with the greatest number of new state-level abortion restrictions, as 2011 saw 92 enacted; 43 abortion restrictions were enacted by states in 2012.” Guttmacher also notes that by mid-2014, “13 states (had) adopted 21 new restrictions that could limit access to abortion.”

The implications of these new laws and regulations are profound: As noted by Catholic Family Association president Austin Ruse, “How effective have some of these state legislative efforts been? A few years ago, Texas had 40 abortion clinics. Now, it has less than ten and counting.” Put another way, thousands of unborn children in the Lone Star state will be welcomed into life and their mothers defended against the abortion industry’s exploitation.

• The Guiding Star Project shares a great story about the impact pro-life medical professionals can make in the lives of their patients. Seeing pregnancy as a blessing and not a burden makes a huge difference when encouraging mothers.
• Clinic Quotes posts a brief video of abortionist Randall Whitney speaking with pro-lifers. Whitney accuses one pro-life protestor – who brought her child with her – of being a bad mother, even going to far as to say to the child, “Ask your mom to take you home. She’s a bad mother.” He also claims a preborn child isn’t a baby until it is “separate from its host,” (or to use the more common and accurate term – “mother”) and admits preborn children have heartbeats at 3 weeks, but says, “So what?… It’s human tissue.”Warning – mild profanity:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/H32669Qdsjk[/youtube]

by Kelli

Advokate is a group from British Columbia which seeks to “promote the inherent worth and dignity of every human being” by speaking out and supporting people dealing with life issues such as abortion, euthanasia, and assisted suicide. The group has released an excellent video discussing some “frequently asked questions” about physician-assisted suicide:

Physician Assisted Suicide Frequently Asked Questions from Advokate on Vimeo.

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

by Carder

I identify as VERY pro-choice in my political views, however once I became pregnant, I realized that I also found the idea that pregnant people deserved the right to their own bodily autonomy during childbirth to be integral…

I identify as queer when it comes to my personal life, which allows me to gain a wider understanding of the specific needs that people have in the birth community. I have done plenty of research and reading to educate myself on the notion of white privilege and being a “placeholder” for those from marginalized groups…

My favorite thing about being a doula, which took me a long time to figure out, is knowing just how NOT about me childbirth is. I realized that birth is an intimate and very personal situation for all families and I learned just how important it is to meet people where they’re at and not where I would “want” them to be.

My choices may not be yours and I completely love and respect that.

~ Cara Del Favero reflecting on her experience as a full spectrum doula, Radical Doula, December 3

[Photo via Del Favero’s Facebook page]

by Hans Johnson

Comedian, commentator, and radio host Steven Crowder reflects on the worth of every life, pointing out the eugenic mindset that is still alive and well, targeting those with special needs:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/ycl0-zTjLE4[/youtube]

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

by Kelli

Abortion’s now-sacred status is symptomatic of something far more sinister: the sweeping success of the Sexual Revolution. So-called “sexual rights” are now considered to be the most important “rights” our society has, and take precedence over all other rights, regardless of how fundamental they are….

Pornography, nude demonstrations, and virtually any form of sex-related activism is welcome — unless you happen to be opposing something, in which case it is not. When I was in university, for example, our “Cemetery of the Innocents” display was trampled and destroyed by a student politician who then took to the campus paper to call us the Hitler Youth. On campus after campus across North America, so-called feminists respond to pro-life activism the same way: Shut down the debate.

~ Jonathon Van Maren, Life Site News, December 2

[Photo via secularprolife.org]