Posted on 02/06/2010 1:41:28 PM PST by wagglebee
Why are groups such as the National Organization for Women (NOW), the Feminist Majority Foundation, the Women’s Media Center, and numerous “pro-choice” groups apoplectic over a Super Bowl commercial sponsored by Focus on the Family?
Clearly, the commercial’s subject matter has propelled it to the front ranks of controversy in the days leading to the Super Bowl. Entitled “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life,” the ad purportedly (though none of the ad’s critics have actually seen it) tells the story of Florida All-American and Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam.
In 1987, Tim’s future parents, Bob and Pam Tebow, were in the Philippines on a mission trip. During the trip, Pam fell into a coma from amoebic dysentery and was administered several strong medications to treat her potentially life threatening illness. Later, doctors, worried about consequent severe damage to the baby she was carrying, strongly urged Pam to abort her fifth child. She declined their medical advice and gave birth to a perfectly healthy baby boy, Tim Tebow, on Aug. 14, 1987. Pam cited her strong pro-life Christian beliefs for her decision to have her baby over the doctor’s objections.
Why should such a story so threaten the “pro-choice” forces in America that they do not want the vast audiences watching the Super Bowl to see it? Why not just pay for a commercial of their own advocating the “pro-choice” position? Isn’t the free-speech answer to speech you don’t like, more free speech, advocating a different view?
Instead, the “pro-choice” forces are pressuring CBS to reverse itself and pull the ad. Why? I believe it’s because this ad featuring Tim and his mother puts a dramatic human face on unborn children. It confronts people across the nation with the fact that every “problem pregnancy” involves not just a pregnant mother, but also a real, live unborn human being.
Just last week, David Daleiden and Jon A. Shields wrote an article entitled Mugged by Ultrasound which appeared in the Weekly Standard. Daleiden and Shields report on the fact that increasing numbers of abortion workers are converting to the pro-life cause as they come face to face with the compelling humanity of unborn children.
They relay the testimony of Paul Jarrett who ceased doing abortions after performing 23 of them, explaining that “when I found the head of the baby I looked squarely in the face of another human being-a human being that I just killed.” Daleiden and Shields also tell the story of Luhra Tivis, a former NOW activist and the late Dr. George Tiller’s secretary, who when confronted with the undeniable humanity of the victims of Dr. Tiller’s late-term abortions, resigned her secretarial post and became an Operation Rescue volunteer.
The “pro-choice” movement knows they are losing and that ultrasound machines and commercials like the Tebows’ are confronting the country with the undeniable humanity of each unborn child, just as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin put a human face on the 3 million slaves in America, thus hastening their liberation
If the “pro-choice” forces think they have an effective counter argument to justify the continued wholesale killing of unborn Americans, then they should pay their money and make their case. I suspect they know they don’t have such arguments and so they descend to the tactic of seeking to silence the arguments of their opponents.
I believe they know they are losing the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans, especially those 37 and under, the post-Row babies. I was privileged to take part in the protest against the largest abortion clinic in the Western hemisphere in Houston, Texas, Jan. 18. There were approximately 14,000 people in the protest. The crowd was about 40 percent Anglo, 30 percent Hispanic, 30 percent African-American, and 80 percent under 30 years of age. They carried signs which proclaimed, “We survived Roe-Roe won’t survive us!” I believe they are right. They will insist that the wholesale killing stops, and the first step is to introduce the human face of the babies doctors advise aborting. Meet Tim Tebow! Dr. Richard Land is president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, the Southern Baptist Convention's official entity assigned to address social, moral, and ethical concerns, with particular attention to their impact on American families and their faith.
Exactly and the abortionists are terrified at the thought of the biggest TV audience of the year seeing it.
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Because hellspawn hate the truth.
Agreed. I’m going to be waiting to watch this commercial - along with the or so people we will have over for the game. Interested in seeing how they react to it all.
This protest shows that the term “pro-choice” is deceptive. The true name for the movement is “pro-abortion” as this protest shows. The opponents of the commercial want to deny women information about the choice of life.
The concept of abortion on demand is on its way out. Public opinion is starting to turn, and that will be the catalyst for the passing of laws against abortion, and not the other way around.
They know this gives a real face to those babies in the womb and it scares them to death
Because, as silly as this might sound, I am firmly convinced of this fact.
These “pro choice” groups are infested with leftists who all have one character trait in common. They suffer from arrested adolescent development and just like the petulant child who is being told, or perceives him/herself as being “told what to do”, rebels and lashes out verbally at the one doing the “telling”. In their minds, they know they are wrong in their beliefs, but their cognitive dissonance forces them to react in a negative manner towards those who tell them otherwise.
Liberalism IS a mental disorder.
Isn’t this the same bunch a few years back that was peddling the lie that more women were abused on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year?
Simple. Power.
The Tibow message is poisen to the president and his agenda.
So they attack.
Truth is a permanent victim of torcher on the left.
Why? Because to them, abortion is a sacrament.
Kinda like asking Christians to give up communion.
Actually, the protest against Tebow's ad gave it a great deal of publicity. Thus, much more attention is given to his message.
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They are acting up because the willful killing of a unborn child is wrong and it will come to a stop one day.
Courtesy of the American Life League, this video contains statements from the 1986 Super Bowl champs denouncing abortion. It goes to show that Tim Tebow is neither the first nor the only football...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wShTRUGdGAA
How many of those rank bitches wish Tebow were not around to tell his story!
People and organizations that are objecting most vociferously to the airing of the Tebow ad are demonstrating by their actions that they are NOT "pro-choice." They are "PRO-ABORTION."
In their opinions, other than choosing abortion, no other choice will do.
That's not pro-choice; that's pro-abortion.
And they know that the Super Bowl is by far the biggest TV audience there is and it includes EVERYBODY.
I am very impressed with Tebow going through with this ad.....
.....He surely faces pressure at school.
.....I believe he is putting future NFL earnings on the line because of the controversy, al-la Rush Limbaugh type "polarization" excuse.
It would obviously be easier for him to fold but he is doing the Christian message on the national stage, using his notoriety to bring attention. Way to go Tim!
To allow the word "choice" as a position into the debate is to give in to the notion that it really is an acceptable outcome whichever "choice" is made. Everyone always has a choice.
In reality, the term opposite the words "pro-life" are actually "pro-death", righteousness vs. unrighteousness, good vs. evil.
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