So Heisman trophy recipient and Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow has recently found himself in the center of something even hotter than his throwing skills: the American abortion debate. Apparently during the Superbowl, CBS will be showing a pro-life commercial by Focus on the Family featuring Tebow, who was born after doctors strongly advised his missionary mother to abort him.
Pro-choice and feminist groups have gone ballistic. Not surprising. What is surprising though is that none of them have actually seen the ad or have anything more than an inkling about the content.
Which means NOW (National Organization of Women) President Terry O'Neil told the Associated Press that the planned ad is "extraordinarily offensive and demeaning," without having any evidence as to why it’s offensive or demeaning.
NOW’s communication director, Lisa Bennet, warned on their website “that this ad could potentially put women's health and lives at risk by promoting ideology over medicine,” without seeing what ideology or medicine was discussed.
LiAnna Davis of CREDO Action (whose founder, Michael Kieschnick, is the kind of liberal Christian that embarrasses me much in the same way Pat Robertson does) called upon supporters to stop the “anti-choice commercial”, without any information to indicate the ad would call for banning abortion (or anything remotely legislative in nature).
And without having any clue about what she was saying at all, Kierra Johnson, executive director of Choice USA, told Fox News, “This un-American hate doesn’t have a place in this all-American pastime,” which I guess is a reference to Tebow being born in the Philippines (that’s very un-American of him). But we should cut Kierra some slack. I mean this well-intentioned feminist only cares about protecting the all-American Superbowl chauvinist commercial lineup of booze, boobs, and farting horses from the un-American hate of honoring a woman bravely choosing to have her son in a dangerous pregnancy.
Meanwhile, Tebow has had a good bead on the situation. “Some people won’t agree with it, you know, but I think they can at least respect that I stand up for what I believe,” he said. “I'm just standing for something. That's the reason why I'm here because my mom is a very courageous woman.”
So like I told conservatives in the wake of Obama’s much wrongly maligned speech to students a few months back, pro-choicers can shut up until the ad comes out.
And that goes for you and your lawsuit too, Gloria Allred. It truly takes someone profoundly cynical and caustic to accuse Tebow’s mother of years ago fabricating the story of his birth.
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whats demeaning and insulting is that theres funding out there for telling women what to do or what not to do.
the entire point of that women being anti-choice boggles my mind.
SHE was given a choice whether to have her son in danger, or not. other women deserve the same exact choice.
The rhetoric, when they haven't even seen the ad, is ludicrous. But that is typical of both sides of the debate.
I agree: Shut up!
Far more news worthy was the sentencing of the Tiller's killer. A murderer goes to jail, that is a good thing.
As a country, legally we are pro-choice, however; as Christians it is our duty to pray (and vote) against this slaughter. The murder of children has always been Satan's way of limiting the church. From the time of Moses and again in the time of Jesus, there has been an attack on defenseless children. There is nothing new under the sun.
I have seen Christians rationalize voting for pro-choice candidates, but it is wrong. The wholesale slaughter of millions and millions of children is never going to be OK with God.
I am glad that Tebow is standing up for all Bible believing Christians. Regardless of what others think, there will be rewards in Heaven.
Good piece, Colin. Very good and on the mark.
The reason a person can be fervently anti-abortion is because they consider the fetus to be a living human being. They are against the choice of a woman's right to choose what do do with her own body in this particular instance because they see it as a case of one creature's death verses another creature's inconvenience. In a case where a mother desires an abortion, it is a no win scenario. Anti-abortion activists know that someone is going to lose, but they see it as someone losing a life or someone having to put up with something they don't want to do, and it's not difficult for them to make the choice. It's easy to understand where both sides are coming from, Rachel, if you know whether or not they consider a fetus to be a person.
why do pro-lifers always want to talk about whether or not a fetus is "alive" or not?
i'm not even talking about that.
i'm talking about the fact that a woman who was GIVEN THE CHOICE TO MAKE HER OWN DECISIONS is advocating that other women not be given that same exact choice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utcxpuHF7jg&feature=player_embedded
check it, and amen.
I think Rachel has an interesting point, but I don't if Tebow's mom supports banning abortion in the case of mother's life being in danger.
Rachel does inspire me to think about a greater question surrounding the word "choice" though. Many women are driven to seeking an abortion because they feel like, financially speaking, they do not have a choice.
If we are ever going to mandate by law protection of unborn children at some point in their development, we are ethically required to enter into a social contract with the mother who we are potentially asking a great deal of sacrifice from. Given that 98% of abortions in the US are elective and 73% of those are done at least in part because of "economic" reasons, we have a responsibility on our part to create a culture and policies that remove the heavy economic burden and stigma from women with unplanned pregnancies. Unless we do that, we are not giving women a fair choice.
And Rachel, I agree that the "life"speak is a bit vague. I think the more important issue is to ask, what are the specific traits of a human that confer full personhood and by extension, protection under the constitution?
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