Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama
Posted on 02/05/2010 9:13:33 AM PST by Between the Lines
Christian Newswire/ -- For several weeks, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) has been sitting on the sidelines while its cohorts attacked CBS Television for agreeing to air a pro-family commercial during the Super Bowl. It seems the hierarchy of the abortion-committing group did not want to come off looking as ridiculous and petty as their counterparts. Just in time, two former pro-abortion leaders, Frances Kissling of "Catholics" for a Free Choice and Kate Michelman of NARAL Pro-Choice America, have come to the rescue of the rarely silent PPFA.
We'd go with a 30-second spot, too. The camera focuses on one woman after another, posed in the situations of daily life: rushing out the door in the morning for work, flipping through a magazine, washing dishes, teaching a class of sixth-graders, wheeling a baby stroller. Each woman looks calmly into the camera and describes her different and successful choice: having a baby and giving it up for adoption, having an abortion, having a baby and raising it lovingly. Each one being clear that making choices isn't easy, but that life without tough choices doesn't exist.
Pressure from fellow pro-abortion activists and the wise words of Kissling and Michelman led PPFA President Cecile Richards to release a statement, which was primarily used to attack Focus on the Family and draw attention away from the point of the commercial. Shortly thereafter, PPFA released two videos responding to the ad:
One video features former college and professional football player Sean James and Olympic gold medalist Al Joyner:
JAMES: I'm Sean James. I'm a former college and professional football player.
JOYNER: I'm Al Joyner. I won an Olympic gold medal in the triple jump.
JAMES: I love my family and I love sports.
JOYNER: And Super Bowl weekend is a perfect time to honor both--sports and family.
JAMES: There's a lot of talk leading up to this Super Bowl about an ad focused on sports and family. The ad features a great football player, Tim Tebow, and his loving mother discussing a difficult medical decision she made for her family. I respect and honor Mrs. Tebow's decision.
JOYNER: I want my daughter to live in a world where everyone's decisions are respected.
JAMES: My mom showed me that women are strong and wise. She taught me that only women can make the best decisions about their health and their future.
JOYNER: My daughter will always be my little girl, but I'm proud every day as I watch her grow up to be her own person--a smart, confident young woman. I trust her to take care of herself.
JAMES: We are working toward the day where every woman will be valued; where every woman's decision about her health and her family will be respected.
JOYNER: We celebrate families by supporting our mothers; by supporting our daughters; by trusting women.
In the other video, Richards does a great job utilizing the strategy suggested by Kissling and Michelman:
Super Bowl television ads get a lot of attention and this year one ad is getting the lion's share. We hear that it will feature a football player, Tim Tebow, and his mom talking about a deeply personal medical decision she made years ago. She decided to continue her pregnancy, despite some serious risks. And people have been asking us at Planned Parenthood what we think about Pam Tebow's decision and it's simple. Planned Parenthood trusts every woman to make her own important personal medical decisions. Pam Tebow weighed medical and moral considerations and decided what was right for her and her family. And she did so in private and without government interference. That's exactly what we want every woman to be able to do.
"The new tactics being employed by pro-abortion leaders is brilliant," said Douglas R. Scott, Jr., president of Life Decisions International, a Planned Parenthood watchdog organization. "The James/Joyner video is slick. Like Tim Tebow, the men are articulate and come across as sincere, caring individuals." Scott said the Richards video is also good, but "merely espouses the quintessential argument that has been used by abortion apologists for decades. It has just been softened a bit and repackaged."
While Scott is impressed by the PPFA videos, he points out that the words spoken by the trio demonstrate just how unscrupulous the group can be. "This is nothing but nice-sounding rhetoric that evades the real issue. Moreover, the videos do not show the public the extreme nature of Planned Parenthood's agenda."
"James, Joyner and Richards do not want to talk directly about abortion. Every word that leaves their mouths presents a 'let's all get along and let everyone do whatever they want to do' and 'let's celebrate and praise the decisions of those who choose to kill their children just as we might celebrate and praise those who choose to bring a new life into the world.' As usual, the crux of the matter is ignored," Scott said.
"This is not a question of trusting women; it is a matter of life and death. The bottom line is that if Pam Tebow had followed the advice of her doctors and those who support 'reproductive choice', Tim would have been killed. And this would have been a tragedy if he had grown up to become a janitor, a clerk, a teacher, a car salesman, a president, or even a football star. 'Choices' are not equal. Choosing death for another should never be 'celebrated', 'praised', or 'respected'. While we should always give others the basic respect due anyone created in the image of God, we can never 'respect' the opinions or actions of those who support evil."
Both PPFA videos may be viewed by clicking here for James/Joyner and here for Richards.
As long as brave men and women will stand up to the horror that is abortion and their priests of death there is no way they can win this argument. Left has a hard time winning any argument provided we don’t allow them to silence us through political correctness. They fear open debate. They have to set the field to their advantage to win. We have made great strides on the issue of abortion, we have made great strides against the big government/world government insanity that is global warming, we have held the line against the radical homosexual agenda (though we need to do more and quit being afraid of the pink mafia). I don’t care what they put out as commercials there will always be the reality of what abortion is to shock people back to reality.
Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama
LOLOLOL!
In the 30 seconds this counter-commercial runs... statistically how many babies will have never been born because of abortion? Human life. THAT’s what I’m thinking about, and I hope the two guys on the commercial someday see the light and learn to love life.
A true counter-ad would be about a woman who had an abortion saying, “My child never had a chance to live because I had it killed in the womb. But I can continue living my life.”
It should instead read "Frances Kissling of Catholics for Murder." But I do not think that there are any such "Catholics" or even Christians that support murder of the unborn.
Planned Parenthood completely misrepresents the issue - not surprisingly. Please - women need to exercise the “right to choose” BEFORE getting pregnant. But then PPFA wouldn’t be able to rake in the money they receive from abortion mills.
This group does not represent women’s interests and they need to be exposed.
This sounds like an ad against Obama-care. But what if we can get ALMOST everyone ‘covered’ and cut some entitlements, raise some taxes, set some price controls??? Wouldn't that be worth giving up the ‘right to choose’ personal medical decisions in private and without government interference as PP says they are for??
This type of anti-collective thinking is dangerous. Obama says we are all in this together. Wasn't this pro-abort group PP FOR Obama care?
There is one abortion every 24 seconds in the US.
“Wasn’t this pro-abort group PP FOR Obama care? “
ALL of them!
you are confusing the issue with yer facts Sir...8^}
But it was fun pointing it out.
Where is it written that anyone has to respect, illegal, immoral, unethical, or just plain dumb decisions?
A person may have a right to make a decision but nothing says that anyone has to respect that decision.
screaming babies dont count as 'everyone' in libtardville...
That’s one too many.
Yet they will continue to demonize those who have pro-life position. Two "nice" commercials can not make up for years and year of demagoguery.
I am still wondering why the only medical decisions we can be trusted to make is abortion(and maybe conventional birth control) , and even that lone liberty goes only to women.
As the Bible says, even Satan appears as an “angel of light.” He’s REALLY slick about candy-wrapping his bloody messages.
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