Why Is NOW So Afraid of a Pro-Life, Pro-Family Ad?

FOXNews.com ^ | 2/1/10 | Marjorie Dannenfelser

[rhema]

What is the National Organization for Women afraid of? Apparently a touching story about a courageous woman who chooses life in the face of adversity is just too much to take. And when her football star son decides to share that story on Super Bowl Sunday, well, that goes too far. It’s “divisive.”

NOW and its affiliate organizations the Feminist Majority and Women’s Media Center are condemning the Super Bowl advertisement featuring Tim Tebow and his mother Pam, calling it an offensive “anti-choice” ad.

Could you imagine anything more ironic? The organization that purports to embrace women and “choice” is desperately clamoring to shut down the most loving choice of all: the choice for life. Yet the women of NOW can’t abide 30 seconds of a heart-warming story. What would producers at Lifetime Television say?

Let’s be real. What’s the worst case scenario here? That if Americans hear this message they will choose to make sacrifices in order to have a child and bring a wonderful life in to the world? That’s hardly an abhorrent message.

These groups are not “for” women and they don’t want them to have a “choice.” They only want women to “choose” the path of abortion. Never mind that abortion has been shown over and over to be destructive in numerous ways, both physically and psychologically. But, *please* don’t tell people that there are alternatives.

In their efforts to cling to the old feminist mantra that we somehow “need” abortion, NOW sells American women short. They assume that women are so weak-brained and easily manipulated that they must be protected from a life-affirming message.

This fracas over the Super Bowl illustrates perfectly how NOW & Co. are losing their grip as their pro-abortion position sinks in public opinion. For the first time in decades,

[Let's Roll]

"Since 1973 FIFTY MILLION AMERICANS HAVE BEEN KILLED in this genocide."

And in an age/era when contraceptives are virtually fool-proof except for user error, those numbers are really outrageous. Just more not having to be accountable/responsible. Why not? They can always have it 'taken care of'.

If abortion were illegal, a LOT more people would be motivated to use contraceptives correctly.

[bog trotter]

Yep, the day I had my now 37 year-old twins. I did what I could to counter.

[madamemayhem]

well said. i have always wondered why the “pro-choice” crowd has such a problem with ladies who CHOOSE to have a child rather than an abortion. to me choice is a)give birth and raise the child. b)give birth and give the child over to another family thru adoption. c)abortion- the last resort of a desperate and dangerous pregnancy.
but the so called womens rights movement sees only one choice and that is abortion. for them the right to choose means a woman murders her unborn child

[chris_bdba]

I think it is ingenous that they are aiming this ad towards men who are the primary audience for the Superbowl. Might make a few younger ones who might be in this position one day not to press so hard to end it and think about the baby first. :)

[Nosterrex]

Most of the leadership of NOW is stuck back in the 1970’s. Feminism has passed them by a long time ago. Abortion is a sacrament in the church of NOW. It is their way of lashing out against their archenemy, patriarchy, which begins with the chief patriarch himself, God the Father. There is nothing that offends God more than the slaughter of infants on the altars of Ashtaroth, so killing unborn children is a rebuke of God the Father. But since men wrote the Bible, that too must be rejected. The hatred toward anything that might cast doubts upon abortion is evident in their fear of Tebow’s pro-life message. Logic does not apply to the leadership of NOW. It is all based psychological needs, not logic.

[HiTech RedNeck]

With all Hollywood at their disposal, surely NOW could spin something up if they wanted.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If so, they should think, would NOW really want a "God the Mother" that behaves they way they do? That would be a celestial tyrantess.

[highlander_UW]

The only "choice" NOW respects it the "choice" to murder babies. If you "choose" to keep the baby you MUST be silenced.

"Follow the money, honey"....the abortion mills provide the support to NOW.

[Nosterrex]

Most of the NOW leadership works under the umbrella of liberation theology which includes feminist theology. They believe that the Bible and the church are agents of oppression toward women and homosexuals. Probably the vast majority of NOW’s leadership is composed of lesbians. Some feminists have advocated placing a warning sign on the cover of Bibles warning women that this book is detrimental to your health. Feminists see traditional or biblical Christianity as the problem. The few feminists in NOW, if they do use the bible, use a hermeneutical principle that disgards the intentions of original authors or audiences’ for an interpretation that meets their immediate needs. In other words, you are free to interpret the bible anyway that you want as long as it conforms to felt needs.
Many of the feminists theologians that I have met, such as Sallie McFague, have moved on to panentheism or pantheism, which for them is a form of nature worship, as in Mother Nature. They worship the divinity within themselves.

[Impy]

This ad may get people thinking.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you Impy.