Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Gator Done
Posted by David Winkler-Schmit on Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:09 AM
Just on time for airing during the Super Bowl, former University of Florida quarterback Tim Teebow will be starring in an anti-abortion commercial.
Conservative Christian organization Focus on the Family is paying for the ad, and tells the story of how Pam Teebow was pregnant with her fifth child when the family flew to the Phillipines on a missionary trip. She contracted dysentery, and the drugs used to treat the infection threatened her unborn child Doctors advised her to abort the baby, but Pam pressed on in the pregnancy, and Tim Teebow came into the world on August 14, 1987.
Networks have previously declined to broadcast controversial ads, but CBS is getting a reported $2.5 to $2.8 million for a 30-second spot, and FOF must have put up the cash.
So what do you think? Should CBS be taking any and all commercial revenue when it comes to the big game, or do we need more commercials with exploding mosquitoes and talking sock puppets? Maybe Teebow should have been focusing on something else?
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Why not? Either side of the issue should not be afraid of the opinions of the other side. It is a valid belief.
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I'm all for people's freedom to advocate their views. (Legislating away other people's rights to live their lives according to their own views on the other hand is something I would take up arms against.) But it's disturbing to me that Focus on the Family chooses to use this story of a woman who "chose life" against medical advice. If a woman's life is potentially at risk she should take that chance. I would think if there was something both sides could agree on it's that in cases of rape, incest and in cases of danger to the woman, abortion is a morally sound option. Apparently Focus on the Family would like women to know that even if there are health complications they should "choose life." This country would be a better place if the "pro life" movement would stop trying to legislate their beliefs on others, which is the whole point of this publicity campaign -- it's not simply to "express their views." The opposition isn't the one trying to pass legislation on others. It really irks me every time somebody implies to make it sound like the wicked pro-choicers are imposing their views on others when in fact it's the pro-lifers that are seeking ways to prevent other women from choosing to have abortions. You don't see pro-choicer pushing women into family plannign centers -- but you do see pro lifers trying to block or humiliate them form entering. That's not free speech any more than gunning down doctors is "justifiable homicide." (Which was recently used as a defense in that Kansas case.)
