Vince Deagler

hi everyone.  i was wondering if you have been following all the controversy surrounding the focus on the family super bowl commercial featuring tim tebow and his mom, pam?  apparently this ad, unseen by everyone other than focus on the family, cbs, and the tebow’s has caused quite a stir in the feminist community.  the national organization for women, the women’s media center, the feminist majority foundation, planned parenthood, among others have all come out in opposition to this unseen advertisement.  their opposition takes many forms, but the common denominator is the ad should not be aired.  i do not want to get into a debate on abortion.  it also seems ridiculous to me that this ad would be opposed by women’s groups when many other ads seem to be much more “sexist” in nature (i have watched the superbowl on several occasions, i have seen some of the ads, can anyone say “go daddy”…just a thought).  no, i don’t want to get in that debate.

but i would like to raise a question.  each of the aforementioned groups opposing this ad claim to be pro-choice.  i don’t know about you, but when i hear “pro-choice” i think…well…they would be pro (for, in favor of) choice.  is that label accurate in this case?  let’s see.  pam tebow, a missionary in the phillipines at the time, gets sick while pregnant with tim.  the doctors advise an abortion because the medicine is dangerous for her unborn child, tim.  she exercises choice…she chooses to not get an abortion.  (do you see why i am confused???)  some 20 years later she tells us about her story in a superbowl add put out by focus on the family.  the commercial is called “celebrate family, celebrate life”  and all these pro-choice groups rise up in opposition to…choice.  on what planet does that make sense. 

here is what i think.  in an age of political correctness and poll tested speech, these groups have figured out pro-death, pro-abortion, choose death, celebrate death, and similar tag lines probably wouldn’t be well received.  so, they call themselves pro-choice.  but it is obvious they are not pro-choice.  if they were they would stand with the tebows and celebrate her choice.  since they oppose the telling of her story, and her story is a story of choice, what other conclusion can i come to?  they cannot be pro-choice. 

and this is just the tip of the ice berg.  they don’t seem to mind the “go daddy’s, beer commercial stereotypes, women are sex objects” advertisements that we have seen all over the airwaves, soooooo, can we call them pro women???  seems to me these pro-choice, pro-women groups have some explaining to do.  you are welcome to wait around to hear it, i have better things to do with my time. 

as they say…1 picture is worth a 1000 words…and what a picture.  until something drastically changes i think all these type groups ought to be labeled pro-death or pro-abortion.  maybe they can produce their own commercial…i can see it now…get rid of the human parasite that is free loading on your body…don’t think of it as a baby, think of it as a tumor…or a blob of cells with no connection to humanity, maybe they can have an ultrasound shot with some kind of appeal for women everywhere to kill their unborn children and then they can bring up the tag line…celebrate abortion, celebrate death.  i guess that’s why they have to oppose the tebows, they don’t really have much of a counter argument.  tell me what you think?