OK. We’ve all had it happen. We’re talking with a woman who all of a sudden does what we fear most and reaches into the depth of her pocketbook and whips out the pictures of her pride and joy. And she’s gonna’ tell you all about little Mr. Wonderful. You just know the next few minutes of your life will be spent oohing and aahing and forcing the edges of your mouth to reach your ears.
Well, you could do that which is what pretty much every human on the face of the earth does OR you could completely freak out and contact some high price attorney to pen some litigious threats or a cease and desist order to force the proud Mom to shut the Mom up. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking you’d never be so sick and demented as that. Well that’s why you’re not the President of the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Seriously, the President of CRR is losing it because Tim Tebow’s mom wants to tell the world she chose life and her son turned out to be…awesome squared.
That’s all. She’s not pushing a law. She’s not forcing anyone to do anything. She just wants to tell the world that she chose life and her son turned out to be a Heisman/National Championship factory with 4.40 speed.
The CRR tried to first say the ad, which they haven’t even seen yet, is too controversial. Yeah, a mom saying that you should love your unborn baby even though your kid probably won’t break every record in NCAA football history because her kid already did that but your kid might be pretty cool anyway is soooooo controversial.
But that didn’t work. So now the CRR folks have taken to calling Tim Tebow’s mom a lyin’ you know what. I’m serious.
In possibly the lowest move by pro-choicers (at least in the last few hours), Nancy Northup, President Center for Reproductive Rights, is attempting to silence Florida QB Tim Tebow by accusing his mother of lying about the circumstances surrounding his birth.
In a letter to CBS, which is airing the Superbowl, Northup wrote:
We are writing to request that CBS reconsider its decision to air an advertisement by the anti-choice group Focus on the Family, featuring Pam and Timothy Tebow during Super Bowl XLIV…
We believe it is essential that you determine whether the proposed Tebow advertisement meets CBS’s own standards with regard to accuracy and advocacy…
Past media coverage of the Tebows suggests that the ad may present a misleading picture of the reality of abortion in the Philippines. In 2007, the Gainsville Sun reported that Pam Tebow was living and working as a missionary in the Philippines in 1987 when she was pregnant with her son Tim. According to the Sun story, doctors encouraged Mrs. Tebow to terminate her pregnancy because she had suffered a medical condition that endangered her health and the pregnancy…
Because of these draconian and discriminatory laws and practices, women with life- threatening pregnancies have had no choice but to risk their lives, either by continuing their high-risk pregnancies or seeking unsafe abortions. In 2008 alone, at least 1000 women died, and 90,000 more suffered complications, as a result of the Philippines’ criminal abortion ban.
Given this context, it raises questions about whether physicians in the Philippines would have urged a married pregnant woman to illegally terminate her pregnancy in 1987…
There is still time before February 7 to reconsider your action and we urge you to do so.
Let’s get this straight. The Center for Reproductive Rights is calling Tim Tebow’s mother a liar because she’s saying that an abortion was recommended to her in a country where abortion is illegal.
Are these people so insane that they can’t believe a woman turned down an abortion? I know. I know. With all the fringe benefits of abortion including a lifetime of guilt, depression, higher risk of suicide, increased chance of infertility and cancer who could say no to an abortion, right?
And CRR’s logic falls apart in that aren’t they the same ones who say if you make abortion illegal, the same number of abortions would still occur but they’ll be performed illegally and dangerously? In one of their own documents they say, “The Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade all but ended the back-alley and self-induced abortions that once killed hundreds if not thousands of women each year.”
But wait?! Abortion was illegal in this country before that, right? So how did all those women die? So, I guess, abortions still take place even when it’s illegal, huh? I mean, did they not see Vera Drake?
I can’t wait for these folks to really start freaking out as the Super Bowl approaches. I wish they’d make them the halftime show.
HT HuffPo
January 31, 2010 at 1:57 am
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January 31, 2010 at 1:58 am
http://www.operationalmedicine.org/ed2/Enhanced/AbnormalPregnancy.htm
January 31, 2010 at 2:00 am
In the Philippines it is not only illegal to have an abortion, there is no law that states a woman is exempt from the law if her life is in danger. That said, it seems very unlikely Pam's story is truthful, particularly because it seems contrary to reason that a doctor would urge that she get an abortion and risk his life's work just to push a woman to abort her baby. Even if he was an "activist" or "rogue" doctor, if there was some conspiracy to further the "abortionist agenda" he would be throwing away the means for him to carry out his mission.
January 31, 2010 at 2:16 am
According to this story, Pam was actually in the U.S. when she was urged to abort: her family had just returned from a mission trip to the Philippines; Tim was born after they went back to their mission. Most of the stories don't include this detail, but it certainly explains a great deal if true.
http://texasrighttolife.com/prolifeworks/timtebowad.php
Of course, no one should let this interrupt their jumping to conclusions. . .
January 31, 2010 at 2:20 am
It may be worth noting that the story was written before the controversy began
January 31, 2010 at 2:42 am
But that's not what Mrs Tebow told the Gainsville Sun in October 2007. She specifically said she was told this by a Filipino doctor in the Phillippines, and in her seventh month of pregnancy she went to a hospital in Manila where "she received around-the-clock care from an American-trained physician." It should also be noted in this interview she said she was in a coma before she got pregnant – that they tried to, and were successful in, getting pregnant while she was still being treated for the dysentary. When she found out she was pregnant, she stopped taking her medication.
In brief, there are several different (contradictory) versions of the story.
January 31, 2010 at 2:50 am
If she was in the United States when told to have an abortion, there's a little problem with what she said. She said, "They thought I should have an abortion to save my life from the beginning all the way through the seventh month," in her 2007 interview with the Gainsville Sun.
The maternal mortality rate from placental abruption in the United States is 0.1%. About the same as the chance of getting struck by lightening and a little bit less than winning the lottery. So would a doctor tell her having an abortion would "save her life" with that low a risk?
January 31, 2010 at 3:08 am
I checked this and I don't see see anything contradictory in the stories at all. The Sun story was quite vague about who the doctors who told her to abort were, and does NOT specifically say they were in the Philippines – evidently there was more than one doctor involved.
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20071007/NEWS/710060317?p=2&tc=pg
Even if there is contradiction involved, I'd blame the reporters for incompetence long before I accused the mother of lying. Most newspaper stories are inaccurate or incomplete in one way or another. If you study recent history as I have, you run into tons of contradictory newspaper reports and really have to dig for the real facts. It doesn't necessarily mean anyone is lying, though in some cases, of course, it does.
The truth is that since we do not know the full story, we can't leap to conclusions.
The story quoted Pam as talking about the placental abruption in connection with the possibility of a stillbirth; there may well have been other complications threatening her own life that weren't mentioned in the article.
So as I said, don't leap to conclusions.
January 31, 2010 at 3:48 am
In one interview, Pam Tebow related that during that pregnancy, a Philippine doctor suggested that she abort the fetus because the strong medications she was being treated with for amoebic dysentery, which she had contacted early in the pregnancy, could cause serious disabilities to the fetus. -TimTebowfans
Living in the Philippines as missionaries, Pam and her husband, Bob, who now heads the Bob Tebow Evangelistic Association, had been told the baby she was carrying needed to be aborted in order to save her life.
“They didn’t recommend; they didn’t really give me a choice,” Tebow said. “That was the only option they gave me.” – interview with Florida Baptist Witness, January 8, 2009
Speculation that it will touch on pro-life themes centers on the fact that Pam Tebow, when pregnant with her fifth child — who turned out to be Tim — was urged by a doctor to have an abortion. She was living in the Philippines with her family at the time and had a life-threatening infection from a pathogenic amoeba. She opted to keep the baby. – BPNews
Pam Tebow contracted amoebic dysentery which (she says on a YouTube video) is a leading cause of death in the Philippines. Her physician recommended an abortion which the Tebows rejected.
After becoming pregnant, Pam Tebow fell into a coma caused by amoebic dysentery, bacteria caught through drinking contaminated water. She was put on strong medications to treat her illness. Her doctors later discovered that those medications caused permanent damage to the fetus, according to Christian Press.
Just before her pregnancy, Pam fell into a coma after contracting amoebic dysentery, a bacteria transmitted through contaminated drinking water. During her recovery, she received a series of strong medications. And even though she discontinued the regimen when she discovered the pregnancy, doctors told Pam the fetus had been damaged.
"They thought I should have an abortion to save my life from the beginning all the way through the seventh month," she recalled.
In her seventh month of pregnancy, Pam traveled to the country's capital, Manila, where she received around-the-clock care from an American-trained physician. – Gainesville Sun
More than 21 years ago, she and her husband, Bob, were serving as missionaries to the Philippines and praying for a fifth child. Pam became ill and was treated with strong antibiotics before discovering she was pregnant. Doctors urged her to abort the baby for her own safety. She refused. – intro to her speech at Louisville Women's Ministries
January 31, 2010 at 4:06 am
http://www.fresnobee.com/columnists/james/story/1799872.html
January 31, 2010 at 8:32 am
Besides Allred and the abortionists are lying when they say the law in the Philippines do not provide exception for abortion for mother's life in danger:
http://www.asap-asia.org/country-profile-philippines.html
although the Penal Code does not list specific exceptions to the general prohibition on abortion, under the general criminal law principles of necessity as set forth in article 11(4) of the Code, an abortion may be legally performed to save the pregnant woman’s life.2 A decision of the Supreme Court also impliedly recognized abortion to save the mother’s life.3 The United Nations recognizes that abortion in the Philippines is permitted only in instances in which the pregnant woman's life is endangered.4
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February 3, 2010 at 5:54 am
FROM THE UN WEBSITE ON ABORTION LAWS IN THE PHILIPPINES (http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/doc/philippines.doc)
Grounds on which abortion is permitted:
To save the life of the woman YES
And then in the Background Section, it further states, and I quote,
"Although the Penal Code does not list specific exceptions to the general prohibition on abortion, under the general criminal law principles of necessity as set forth in article 11(4) of the Code, an abortion MAY be LEGALLY performed to SAVE THE PREGNANT WOMAN'S LIFE.
In addition to these provisions, the Constitution of 1987 provides that the State 'shall EQUALLY protect the LIFE of the MOTHER and the life of the unborn from conception.'"
I hope that clears that up.
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