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 29, 2010 at 4:57 am
Abortion in the Philippines is illegal/criminal but there are exceptions to the law – like in the case where the life of the mother is in danger, which I believe is the case with Tim Tebow's mom. And even if that weren't the case, she could always fly to the U.S. and have her abortion there if she decides to.
CPR's claim is baseless (they lie).
Gabriel M.L. Torre, Philippines
January 29, 2010 at 7:13 am
If these groups were truly pro-choice, they would be applauding women like Mrs. Tebow & Sarah Palin for choosing to have their children. Their reaction shows that they are really pro-abortion as the only option.
January 29, 2010 at 8:14 am
What they have is only speculation. Yes, it's illegal in the Philippines, but it only takes one rogue physician to suggest an abortion.
Also, I hope someone can explain what is a safe abortion, because as far as I know, every time abortion is committed, at least one life dies.
And it's alive because it sure doesn't look like it's dead.
January 29, 2010 at 11:17 am
A tiny quibble: The Center for Reproductive Rights should be CRR rather than CPR shouldn't it? CPR is a very good procedure for cardiac arrest!
January 29, 2010 at 11:33 am
I just emailed the CPR. None of them are willing to air an ad showing the reality of abortion. They are unwilling to tell the truth about the very thing they support. Cowards, they are. Mrs. Northup should create an ad where she stands in an abortion clinic, collects the money, views the ultrasound and then destroys the "tissue", sending the woman on her merry and happy way. I dare her to show the reality of abortion and confirm her support of it.
January 29, 2010 at 11:42 am
Eamonn, I'm an idiot. CRR it is. And I fixed it in the post. Thanks for the heads up.
January 29, 2010 at 1:42 pm
I can never fathom why a group who extends the concept of freedom (well technically license) to killing one's own children has such a problem with letting people speak their minds freely.
January 29, 2010 at 1:58 pm
"I wish they'd make them the halftime show."
Thanks for the laugh!
January 29, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Guess they stopped air travel to the states during this period of time….
January 29, 2010 at 2:15 pm
This is what I have found so amazingly bizar since childhood. Here are women that can do almost everything a man can, but what sets them a part from men? Giving birth. Doesn't it seem like the logical step for womens rights to be passing laws that protect the ability and encourage the success of that unique trait rather than destroying the very thing that sets them apart? That is how I know that it is evil. When the reasonable is twisted to the point of being profane. The enemy always twists things, it is his MO. It seems the more something seems confusing the more his fingerprints are on it.
January 29, 2010 at 2:28 pm
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January 29, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Hey anon – she (Pam) was in a coma from dysentery – I don't think comatose pregnant women with a deadly form of dysentery should fly.
January 29, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Two things: 1) If all ads were disallowed based on mere suspicions of lying, then there would be absolutely no ads at all; 2) CBS policy is for CBS to make, interpret and develop as CBS sees fit. Of course anyone outside CBS can try to influence that policy, but you can't assert a right to interpret it for them.
January 29, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Please tell me why my post was deleted, Mr. Archbold.
January 29, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Excessive obnoxiousness.
January 29, 2010 at 5:29 pm
I vote for a showdown between the Center for Reproductive Rights and the First Amendment Center during half-time! The right to persuade, after all, is actually in the Constitution. How we get from due process to abortion? You tell me.
January 29, 2010 at 5:33 pm
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January 29, 2010 at 5:56 pm
I was just pointing out that it is a little hard to believe that doctors would recommend an abortion to a Catholic missionary in an 80% Catholic country where abortion for any reason whatsoever, including the life of the mother, has been criminalized for over a century.
I also strongly agree that it is fruitless to question Pam Tebow's credibility. She suffered through a horrendously difficult pregnancy, regardless of her assertions of what transpired.
January 29, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Hey Craig,
My mom, a practicing Catholic, was encouraged by nursing staff at a Catholic hospital here in CT in 1979 to abort her baby just because she was 39, diabetic and therefore there was merely the POSSIBILITY that her baby might have DS or other health concerns. Thank God, she said no, and I was born perfectly healthy!
So no, it's not a little hard to believe!
January 29, 2010 at 6:21 pm
If you are expecting CRR to be logical, you'll be waiting for a long time.