Pro-choice groups object to Tim Tebow's "Choose Life" Super Bowl ad

CBS has agreed to air an ad during the Super Bowl which is sponsored by Focus on the Family. It features Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and his mom Pam expressing a pro-life theme consistent with their evangelical Christian beliefs.

The ad carries the tagline "Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life" and recounts the struggles Pam Tebow faced when she was advised by her doctors to terminate her potentially problematic pregnancy. Instead she relied on her faith and carried Tim to term.

What could be more beautiful than a positive family friendly message aired during an event watched by millions of families?

Well, if you're a liberal feminist, the ad isn't so much "pro-family" as it is "anti-choice"! The Women's Media Center sent CBS a letter demanding that they pull the ad.

CBS's recent decision to air an anti-choice advertisement during Super Bowl XLIV was outrageous. Even worse is the network's about face from its own policy of rejecting controversial Super Bowl ads. The Women's Media Center, and organizations dedicated to reproductive rights, tolerance, and social justice, are urging the network to immediately cancel this ad.

In their puny little minds there is only one choice and that choice does not include the word "life". Of course they can't say that outright; they can't very well air a countervailing ad espousing "choose death" without looking ridiculous. So they agitate for the "choose life" ad to be censored instead.

After all, once people start to feel all warm and fuzzy about having babies the next thing you know we'll be inundated with a boatload of kids like Trig Palin! Then what would happen to all those people who toil away day after day in the abortion-industrial complex?

Here's what I don't get.

If they're so "dedicated to reproductive rights" shouldn't they embrace the right to choose life? Or, do women no longer have that particular "right"?

And, if they're in favor of "tolerance" why is it that they cannot tolerate Tim Tebow expressing a viewpoint with which they disagree?

In liberal-land the only valid messages are the ones which they have approved in advance. Kudos to CBS for giving the Tebow family the opportunity to express the joy inherent in choosing life.

Posted at 19:41 by Chris Wysocki   []   Comments | Perm Link |
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