For weeks, NOW and other pro choice activists have had the vapors about a pro life ad, in which the mother of football hero Tim Tebow was allegedly to say she is glad she refused a doctor’s advise to have an abortion. (Other supporters of abortion rights, such as the New York Times editorial page, did not oppose the ad.) But she doesn’t even do that much. She just says she is so glad she had her son, who enters and givers her a big and loving hug.
The ad is below. This is cause for screaming and gnashing of teeth?
February 7th, 2010 | 7:24 pm
Proud mother: I love my son!
Planned Parenthood: Hate speech! Hate speech!
That sums it up.
February 7th, 2010 | 7:44 pm
So this is what all the fuss was about. I knew those pro-aborts were foolish to scream and yell about the contents of an ad that they hadn’t even seen yet. Do they look silly yet?
February 7th, 2010 | 8:10 pm
It may be, if abortion is one’s sacred cow. Amazing, isn’t it: just the perception of anything pro-life sends the pro-choicers into an irrational tailspin. Almost cult-like.
Robert at bioethike.com
February 7th, 2010 | 8:25 pm
That’s actually the pre-game ad–there’s another coming during the game, and I’m sure that’ll be horrific.
/sarcasm
February 7th, 2010 | 8:40 pm
Considering that Alison Herwitt, NARAL Pro-Choice America’s director of government relations, said in 2003 of 4D ultrasound technology: “they just want them to go to crisis pregnancy centers, where women will be exposed to this weapon at taxpayers’ expense,” the reaction to this ad is not surprising.
Ms. Herwitt was describing a machine that grants an unprecedented view into the astonishing reality of life inside the womb as a “weapon.”
It is a weapon of truth, which shatters the lies and propaganda they use to demean and degrade the humanity of the unborn, making it much more difficult to for them persuade themselves and women in crisis pregnancies that ending the life of the unborn is no more significant than trimming a fingernail. And they resent that.
They react to truth – whether it’s the scientific truth of 4D ultrasound imaging, or the heartfelt truth expressed by Pam Tebow – like vampires to sunlight.
February 7th, 2010 | 9:13 pm
Yet another example of why doctors should keep their mouths shut a lot of times when they don’t. Or at least acknowledge that they might be wrong. They’re out of control, and why they have the credibility they have is a good question. Well I guess the answer is for the same reason Obama got elected. “Vapors” — perfect wording, Wesley.
February 7th, 2010 | 9:25 pm
After I saw the commercial, I had to just laugh – a good deep laugh. The reaction of those opposed to the commercial was much more revealing than the commercial itself.
Once again, I see how they really can’t help but shoot themselves in the foot, and then try to pull the other one out of their mouth.
Gnashing of teeth indeed! It definitely exposes their true mentality.
Anti-Human Exceptionalism to the hilt,from before the cradle to the grave.
Choose life…
February 7th, 2010 | 10:17 pm
Separated at birth: Pam Tebow and Lisa Edelstein (of HOUSE, M.D.):
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm21793280/nm0249046
February 7th, 2010 | 10:34 pm
I was born in an Irish orphanage, I never knew my birth mother and father. Meaning, I too, could have easily been aborted. I also support a woman’s right to choose, just like what I heard on the Tebow ad
February 7th, 2010 | 10:42 pm
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February 7th, 2010 | 10:47 pm
I have to agree that the whole business was really much ado about nothing, and the critics simply gave Focus on the Family a little more publicity for its $2.5 million. The “fuss” should be about CBS suddenly breaking with a long-standing practice of not selling time for controversial advocacy ads. It’s bad enough that we have to put up with political candidates’ garbage for nearly half a year preceding every election.
Now, do you suppose anybody in the Super Bowl audience really cared why Pam Tebow didn’t have an abortion 20 years ago, when the Saints were winning their first ever championship? I think not. Besides, what’s the big deal? People decide to have or not have abortions hundreds of times a day, 24/7, all year long. Tebow had no way of knowing her fetus was going to grow up to be a Heisman winner. Hell, he might have grown up to be another Ted Bundy. Do you think the ad changed anyone’s mind?
February 8th, 2010 | 1:27 am
Doesn’t God have a great sense of humor? 500,000 people show up in D.C. for the March for Life and we get little to no coverage. Focus wants to put on a benign ad celebrating a mother’s decision (choice) to have her baby and the pro-abort “femi-nazi” types go ballistic.
and the icing on the cake – the Google ad, the Dove men care advertisement and the Doritos advertisement with the little boy all had pro-life implications.
February 8th, 2010 | 12:40 pm
I think the abortion feminists’ rant today that the ad promotes domestic violence means they are even crazier than a pro-life advocate like me could imagine.
Life News is reporting http://www.lifenews.com/nat5975.html that “Abortion advocate Amanda Marcotte had this post on Twitter that has drawn a reaction from pro-life advocates: ‘Hey Mom! Tried to kill you from the womb and failed. How about a blind side tackle? Violence against Moms.’”
NOW president Terry O’Neill said that bit of the ad glorified violence against women.
“I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it,” she told the Los Angeles Times. “That’s what comes across to me even more strongly than the anti-abortion message. I myself am a survivor of domestic violence, and I don’t find it charming. I think CBS should be ashamed of itself.”
In its mass email today, NARAL said “It’s absurd that CBS would give a radically anti-choice group like Focus on the Family a platform to expose its extreme agenda to millions of people –”
It’s time to call these people what they are, abortion extremists. They aren’t anywhere near mainstream. In an op-ed our group had published in the Reno Gazette Journal last month we noted, “Abortion advocates’ opposition to parental notification, waiting periods, bans on partial-birth abortion and taxpayer funding of abortion demonstrates abortion advocates’ extremism. These measures are supported by wide majorities of Americans, including many who are pro-choice. So are true informed-consent, anti-coercion screening, conscience rights, alternatives provided by crisis pregnancy centers and laws that treat the unborn as a victim when killed by murderers like Scott Peterson. Abortion advocates oppose them all.”
There are some abortion advocates today saying the abortion feminists’ reaction to the Tebow ad is over the top, but NOW and NARAL are pretty big. This effort to mute their hysterics by Francis Kissling reminds me of their reaction to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. They came out hard against it until Jerry Nadler told them how it made them look.
February 8th, 2010 | 4:04 pm
Again. The people outraged by the “violence against women” are usually pretty darned quiet when a commercial (or movie or program) shows a woman hurting a man. In fact, when some of us complain about a movie trailer with Kate Hudson hitting Matthew McConaughey in the face with a golf club, or a T-shirt telling girls to “throw rocks” at boys, we’re told to lighten up, because there are more important problems in the world.
There was an IHOP commercial recently that had a waitress “tackling” Donovan McNabb in the exact same fashion. Where was NOW’s outrage then?
February 8th, 2010 | 4:08 pm
HW,
How about having to hear the President be interviewed before the game? His views are certainly controversial yet CBS aired them. Really, to say a major news outlet won’t air controversial issues?
February 9th, 2010 | 1:56 pm
dawning: The President is normally carried on all major networks whenever his remarks are made to a national audience. It’s called “public interest” programming.
If you will read my statement again, you’ll see that i did NOT say that CBS “won’t air controversial issues.” They do that all the time. What I said was they broke with their tradition of “NOT SELLING TIME FOR CONTROVERSIAL ADVOCACY ADS.” Big difference there. You really need to read more carefully.
February 9th, 2010 | 2:59 pm
Yes, a “football hero”.
All athletes are heroes! There is nothing more heroic than playing a game for fun and recreation.
Glad to see our priorities and values are in place.
We have such a bright future, right? We can tackle any obstacle through the power of sports. No doubt we shall remain the global economic leader for a long, long time! U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A…
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