Nothing wrong with anti-abortion ad during Super Bowl, says Tebow
My AJC colleague Orlando Ledbetter has posted this from Mobile, Ala.:
Florida quarterback Tim Tebow doesn’t understand the controversy surrounding a Super Bowl ad scheduled to air on CBS on Feb. 7.
The ad was purchased by Focus on the Family, a conservative group that stresses marriage and parenthood.
The ad’s theme will be “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life,” according to the Associated Press. Tebow’s mother, Pam Tebow, shares the story of her difficult 1987 pregnancy. Instead of getting an abortion she decided to give birth to Tebow.
“I don’t think it’s anything that’s negative or anything like that,” Tebow said Wednesday after the South team’s practice at the Senior Bowl.
Some contend that the Super Bowl should not be used for political agendas.
“It’s a good time and place,” Tebow said. “There are a lot of people watching. It’s a great opportunity to share a very happy and special story about my mom fighting for me. There are a lot of great things in that.”
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Nathan
January 28th, 2010
5:42 pm
I agree. We should encourage people to not have abortions. We should give people light.
http://www.lighthop.com/home/abortion
God bless
JB
January 28th, 2010
5:53 pm
can we have a ad for the opposing view.
KURT
January 28th, 2010
5:54 pm
What would opposing family and life be?
jtothem
January 28th, 2010
6:01 pm
Man Admits Killing Abortion Provider. Tebow loves this guy from Wichita. So does Kurt?
The opposition is everyone outside the gigantic tumbleweed of crap we call the midwest.
This is the wrong place to try to pedal a political view. Pam Tebow is a liar. You can see it in her face when she gives an interview. The son cannot think for himself so Mommy has to make up his mind for him.
David
January 28th, 2010
6:01 pm
Yes, i would like to see the man who says the opposite view of Family and life is appropriate for a time when families and living people are watching. remember, everyone who supports abortion is alive
joe
January 28th, 2010
6:04 pm
If they are paying. They are not hurting anyone, and all they wish to do is spread an equal message then what the hell is the prob? Of course you can have an opposing view if you wish to pay. Go ask Morgentler for the check to write. I am pro what ever your choice is. Who are these people who are affraid of the add? does sunshine frighten them too?
Mike Smith
January 28th, 2010
6:30 pm
If someone wants to spend the money to oppose Tebow’s mom having given birth to him, then have at it. Maybe a group of Georgia alumni can pay for the ad.
theo
January 28th, 2010
6:36 pm
I was very excited to hear that this would be shown in front of so many people. We need to keep fighting for those innocent lives who cannot say anything. God is the only one who gives life and orchestrates the time for us to leave this earth. I’m glad Tebow’s mom made the right choice to give him life. There are times when life is difficult, but it’s not all about the woman’s rights. Abortion is killing. If one can’t keep that little life, then others would love to adopt that child. That is the best alternative. I wish more people would look to that instead of going to a clinic to kill their baby. I hope this ad helps save many unborn babies….and changes the way our country’s leaders think about life.
TomJynx
January 28th, 2010
6:49 pm
What if it were a “Pro-Choice” commercial? Wait a minute it is a pro-choice commercial! His mom made a choice, and now he’s alive! Isn’t keeping a baby a “choice” too?OH wait I get it its only pro-choice if a baby dies. If that’s the fact why not call it “Pro-Death”?
Im_bonafide
January 28th, 2010
7:28 pm
Why is it that “Meat is Murder” and abortion isn’t? Doesn’t it occur to any of you that it’s a child? I believe in choice: The choice of a mother not to spread her legs in the first place. After that, it’s not part of “her body”, it’s in her body and she chose to put it there. A developing child get’s one thing from the mother besides a place to live for 9 months and that’s food. The unborn child is not getting blood from the mother, it’s got its own. It is unbelievable that there are those of you who cannot grasp the concept there is no difference between an unborn and new born child besides where it resides. I guess that’s the answer to the age-old question: How dumb can you get? Even Jane Roe Is Pro-Life.
ArmyVet
January 28th, 2010
7:36 pm
Tim and his mom want to celebrate a choice she made by working to change the laws and forcing other women to do what she did?
TomJynx doesn’t get it that no one wants to force women like Tim’s mom to get an abortion but she wants to force other women to have babies. That is why we are pro-choice and she is anti-abortion.
Im_bonafide takes the usual route of blaming women without once in 10 lines of blathering saying maybe men shouldn’t have sex. This just shows how much this is really about controlling women’s bodies. Get a life.
billy37
January 28th, 2010
7:41 pm
He is good, I mean he’s really good but you know the way the media, the fans, and even his own family has built him up into this demigod, can only lead him to trouble down the road. He’s just a human being. “The Chosen One” is such an incredibly pretentious title.
This made me stop and think though!http://ketiva.com/Sports/controversial_tim_tebow_to_be_featured_at_super_bowl.html
Garrie
January 28th, 2010
8:10 pm
They have the same right to purchase an Ad for pro-life as the Brewery Companies. Would there be such a stir if it was a pro-choice ad. Everyone is entitle to their opinion and someone is going to be offended no matter what the subject is. I think it took a lot of courage for the Tebow family to discuss something so personal.
Curious and Confused
January 28th, 2010
8:11 pm
For all the people complaining about this ad, it’s not like CBS is giving it away for free. Focus on the Family ponied up the $2,000,000 or whatever to pay for the ad to play, plus production. Is there a group that has the opposite view that wants to pay the money? They would have the right as well.
Curious and Confused
January 28th, 2010
8:11 pm
Enter your comments here
MVonch
January 28th, 2010
8:12 pm
Dear Tom Jynx,
While your last statement (”Oh, wait I get it. It’s only pro-choice if a baby dies. If that’s the fact, why not call it pro-Death?”), is pure sarcasm, it is right on. Clearly, abortion is not a choice for the unborn. Many pro-lifers already do describe abortion supporters as being “Pro-Death.” Since Pro-choice is a euphemism for someone who supports abortion, let’s call it “Pro-Death. Also, let us remember that a baby in our country can be aborted right up until the moment of birth, even if there is nothing wrong with the child and even if the mother’s life is in danger. This procedure is called “partial-birth abortion.” Indeed, this procedure is barbaric and a sin against human life!
It’s time that we provide women in crisis with real choices, rather than just abortion.
I applaud Tim Tebow and his mother Pam for sharing their wonderful story, affirming life
Michael D.
January 28th, 2010
8:14 pm
Sounds like “free speech” to me!
MVonch
January 28th, 2010
8:14 pm
OOPS! Correction: Omission of the word “not.” The sentence should read, “Also, let us remember that a baby in our country can be aborted right up until the moment of birth, even if there is nothing wrong with the child and even if the mother’s life is NOT in danger.”
MVonch
January 28th, 2010
8:16 pm
Thanks Michael D. I agree.
Ted
January 28th, 2010
8:19 pm
While I agree that in this particular instance, choosing life was/is a good choice. Not because it’s Tim Tebow. It could have been someone else who isn’t an athlete. But, there are so many people having children that clearly are not fit to be good parents. Clearly, this guy has good parents that raised him the right way. But, there are people in this world that shouldn’t be here, weren’t planned to be here, and are a drain because they are here. Ignorance breeds ignorance. Pro choice.
Dr. Aborto
January 28th, 2010
8:20 pm
Liberals are intolerant of contrary views. They hate dissent. It is not our fault that a pro-abortion ad would be a tough sell. I have hope that the liberals will eventually abort themselves into extinction.
Reverie
January 28th, 2010
8:20 pm
Who cares what ad runs? If they have the money there is really no legal or ethical reason they shouldn’t be able to run the ad. If you disagree with the ad, fine. If you agree with the ad, fine. Why have we set ourselves up to be the thought police? Years ago there was a guy that would run for Governor every four years on the most racist and bigoted platform ever devised. He ran his ads in print and on radio and television. Nobody rioted in the streets. Nobody died of being offended. Nobody left town. Everybody laughed at his viewpoints and derided his positions. There are laws that prevent tobacco advertisements but not alcohol. I’m not in favor of either one but they are legal and it seems sort of anti-American to restrict those ads. Finally, if your viewpoint on controversial subjects is so weak you can’t allow dissent, how good of a viewpoint do you have?
ManCrush.com
January 28th, 2010
8:21 pm
CBS is considering airing a gay dating site during superbowl.A slippery slope we are on:
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/01/28/exclusive-cbs-limbo-air-gay-dating-site-ad-super-bowl/
CBS
tom
January 28th, 2010
8:25 pm
just hope bimbo..er timbo..er bobo, er bow wow, or watever the heck his name is, just doesnt cry . his check from feces on the family is in the mal
Sam Smith
January 28th, 2010
8:26 pm
Responding to Im_bonafide’s note: “It is unbelievable that there are those of you who cannot grasp the concept there is no difference between an unborn and new born child besides where it resides.”
Well, let’s pull one of ‘em out at three months, put the two side by side, and see how your statement holds up then. Your deciding that a clump of cells and tissues constitutes a living being based on geography is certainly a leap of, um, “faith.”
Michelle
January 28th, 2010
8:26 pm
Why didn’t the spend the 2 million dollars to “focus on the families” already here???
Sam Smith
January 28th, 2010
8:32 pm
Michelle: Right on!
Greg
January 28th, 2010
8:36 pm
why not spend the 2 million dollars on the orphans that have been created from parents that gave up there kid because they couldn’t handle it for whatever reason. Or give it to the 16 yr. olds that have not work no life because they are parents. Id love to see some of these pro-lifers use thier energy in that way. Make a real difference.
AR
January 28th, 2010
8:37 pm
What is the opposing point of view? That it’s GOOD to abort babies?
“I’m Mrs. Jones here and I am SO happy I aborted my baby. Imagine if I had to actually CARE for a KID instead of thinking only about myself my entire life?”
Even you pro-abortionists have to admit that it’s not a POSITIVE thing to abort babies, even though it is LEGAL.
Greg
January 28th, 2010
8:39 pm
I must have been writing the same time as Michelle. Yes, right on!
Greg
January 28th, 2010
8:40 pm
it is pro-choice, truly, I have not right to decide what is right for someone else
Larry
January 28th, 2010
8:42 pm
Here’s a question. If we can assume there’s a God, and this God created life, what would God say about abortion of a human fetus?
Perhaps this is the REAL question…do you believe in a God? Whether you do or not greatly influences which side you embrace, pro life or pro choice!
Gale
January 28th, 2010
8:42 pm
The thing that gets me is if someone disagrees with your beliefs then they have no rights to freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is the American way. Personally I am anti-abortion, but if someone wants to run an ad contrary to what my beliefs are, have at it!!! That falls under Freedom of Speech for all Americans!!!
Byron Mathison Kerr
January 28th, 2010
8:43 pm
Tebow’s mother decided to continue her pregnancy despite advice from her doctor — and I am sure there is not a single person around who is not absolutely grateful that he was born, she survived, and they are both living heathy and vibrant lives today.
And there are a lot of pregnancies that started out as really bad news. But when the child is born and becomes a beacon of joy and pride in the families lives, they oftentimes put aside any original thoughts of despair they felt over the start of the pregnancy.
But it is ultimately a moot point. What would things be like if Adolph Hitler’s mother had terminated her pregnancy?
Personally, I completely defend a woman’s right to be able to choose the option that works for her life and her conscience.
I believe we should show more interest in the sentient life that exists between birth and death. The world is populated with children living in horrible conditions, even in the United States. And what about the many elderly that do not get the care and attention they need and deserve?
Why does not all that fiery anti-abortion level of passion, resource, and energy get used for the benefit of the alive and breathing people around us who need us?
Sam Smith
January 28th, 2010
8:45 pm
ManCrush.com: I figured that Pro Lifers like yourself would actually be in favor of encouraging gay men and women to date. They’re certainly less likely to make babies than hetero couples! Their chances of having to resort to abortion are slim to none. They’re practically role models!
“A slippery slope we are on.” Seriously? Come on! You’re just being silly. There are no slopes to worry about since the Earth is flat, right?
ManCrush.com
January 28th, 2010
8:50 pm
SS–yes I am a Pro Lifer, but I am against airing the ad. The superbowl is no place to be discussing such a serious matter.
Yea, that slippery slope comment was a freudian slip—-get it, gay dating, slippery slopes—ah, forget it.
Zerevon
January 28th, 2010
8:52 pm
I am a die-heart Alabama fan and I agree with Tebow %110. He is a good human being and there is everything right with what he is telling the American people. What would you like sport stars to do rape,murder,etc.or like some of them do or have a positive message like he does? Tebow is a famous guy whether you like it or not. He was a great football player looks like he is even going to be a greater human being.
robin
January 28th, 2010
8:53 pm
Why not spend the 2 million on orphans or whatever? Because as an organization they have as much right to spend their money as they deem, just as Oprah has the right to spend her corporate money as she deems. It doesn’t matter if I agree with the ad or not. What matters is that we still live in America, a melting pot of people, opinions, beliefs, religion and political viewpoints. I’m just glad none of you are privy to my spending.
I am smarter than Tebow
January 28th, 2010
8:56 pm
Tebow made a 890 on his SAT’s and his major is Family and Consumer Sciences (or what we called Home Ec back in the day).
Just another dumb jock, execept he paints bible verses below his eyes instead of wearing bling.
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
8:59 pm
Tebow’s mom should have aborted him
Uconn
January 28th, 2010
9:03 pm
How can I do an ad airing a Pro-opinion? I know money, but how would I get in touch with CBS to do it?
Uconn
January 28th, 2010
9:09 pm
Whoops … Pro-opinion = Pro Choice
Hannah Carter
January 28th, 2010
9:10 pm
@JB yes we could have an ad for the opposing view; however, whoever that party is needs to purchase the ad. It always amazes me that in this free market system that people are fine with ads that exploit women, promote alcohol abuse, condone infidelity, and so on. But when one woman made her choice to keep her child, she can’t tell her story? For all of the people who believe that it is a woman’s right to “choose”, let her tell about her choice. If you support a woman’s right to choose, then support a woman’s decision regardless of what she chooses. The group that bought this ad time deserves to be able to share it, just as Budweiser, Pizza Hut, and all the other companies will be given the opportunity to share.
susan
January 28th, 2010
9:12 pm
The term is NOT anti-abortion but PRO-LIFE, but most of the media refuses to use the PRO-LIFE term because “anti” has more negative connotations to it.
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
9:20 pm
Sports should not be used to promote political agendas….Tebow can butter this up all he wants….but he wants to use football to promote his political agenda….sports should unite fans…if the same team…not divide
Matt
January 28th, 2010
9:22 pm
Of course the ad should be aired. If the members of FontheF want to spend 2 million to send this 30 second message then go ahead.
The only problem here is that apparently CBS has a history of refusing to air ads from a lib church that supports gays. FREE SPEECH means free speech for everyone and networks should be encouraged to be consistent in their policies.
Hannah Carter
January 28th, 2010
9:25 pm
Also @ all the people who said why don’t pro-lifers spend their money helping the families who are already here? Well interestingly, they already are. They spend millions of dollars every year right here in Georgia and across the United States providing resources for women and their children. The Beacon of Hope Pregnancy Resource Center and the Atlanta Care Center are two great examples. (Many families partner with the new mothers to help support them throughout the life of the child.) Another interesting fact, Focus on the Family actually has just partnered with the Colorado foster care system and other churches to help adopt as many children that are available for adoption out of the foster care system.
So if they are already doing what you proposed, what do you propose they do next with their money? Better yet rather than saying they because that is so broad and non-committal, what are you willing to do to help the children and mothers of America, with your money?
I would challenge you to find a local pregnancy resource center or adoption agency and support them monthly. Criticizing others is easy,yet with that same energy you could help be a solution to the problem.
Hannah Carter
January 28th, 2010
9:27 pm
Project 1.27 is the name of the Focus on the Family project.
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
9:31 pm
Hannah….so are you actually saying that pro-lifers do not criticize pro-choicers?
Cristobal Franciso
January 28th, 2010
9:31 pm
Abortion is nothing but a murder of convenience… Everyone who is pro-choice should be forced to perform an abortion and look at the results of their work… Let’s see how they feel about it then… Ever seen the results of a late term abortion?… Unbelievably sick… One day the abortion era will be viewed as comparable to the Holocaust…
Specia K
January 28th, 2010
9:31 pm
It is a pro-life add, not anti-abortion.
Byron Mathison Kerr
January 28th, 2010
9:33 pm
susan, January 28th, 2010, 9:12 pm:
The term is NOT anti-abortion but PRO-LIFE, but most of the media refuses to use the PRO-LIFE term because “anti” has more negative connotations to it.
Seems like anti-abortion and pro-abortion-choice would be the only descriptive names. Nobody is anti-life, anti-choice, or pro-abortion in an unqualified way. But I think we all accept what the various terms mean.
Bob
January 28th, 2010
9:34 pm
It’s always a good time to hear truth and combat ignorance and hatred. I’m a Georgia grad, but I think Tebow’s courage in the face of so much criticism of his beliefs is laudable. He’s sort of like a Pollack writ large. What other college player has his beliefs criticized so sharply?
Cristobal Franciso
January 28th, 2010
9:35 pm
Philly Tide Fan,
How many unborn children did you murder?
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
9:35 pm
Cristobal Francisco’s mother should have aborted him
Bob
January 28th, 2010
9:37 pm
I have no problem calling the ad anti-killing babies for profit. What could be wrong with that?
BIOMASS
January 28th, 2010
9:42 pm
World population is 6.7 BILLION people. It’s headed exponentially upward. I’m sure all these good anti-abortion people are adopting 2-5 kids, as well as supporting orphanages and foster programs. Yeah, I thought so.
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
9:42 pm
I have never killed anyone. I, unlike you, understand that if a woman is raped or if a condom breaks and she is not ready to have a child…it is her decision…not mine…..
Cristobal Franciso
January 28th, 2010
9:43 pm
Philly Tide Fan, You are a very sick man.
Leigh
January 28th, 2010
9:44 pm
For those that don’t want to hear the commercial there is a beautiful new invention called the mute button. Seems odd to me that so many people are so upset over a commercial that no one has seen yet.
Mrs.D
January 28th, 2010
9:46 pm
I’m pro-choice, I would rather have the Focus on the family ad than another dehumanizing, all there is to life is beer and pizza ad! (but then again I am Florida Stae Fan and have an inherant dislike of all things Gator)
Seriously people IT’S JUST A GAME, these are just commercials, at least this one has a positive message, love.
Most women I know were (and still are) guilt ridden over theit decision to abort ther child, I have days where I have to tell myself I made the decision for love. This April it will be 15 years since I had my abortion. Every time I see a teenager I feel a mixture of oh-my-what-did-I-do and what-in-the-world-would-I-DO-with-a-teenager!? I have been able to attend college and am now better equipped to be a responsible parent, and I feel the pain every day of the loss of my child. but I made a decision and I have to live withit, everyday. I can’t live in the past of what ifs.
Please remember that abortion changes a Woman’s life forever, and don’t be so hard on those of us who made that decision, we’re hard enough on ourselves. keep abortion safe, sane and LEGAL.
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
9:47 pm
Cristobal Franciso…..you are a very sick person….grow up and realize that you can not judge people while sitting in a glass house…..so Mr. Pro-life…..I would assume that you are ocmpletely against the war? I do not see you protesting when a military drone accidentaly kills an innocent bystander….of course the reason you don’t is because you have double standards
hotdawg
January 28th, 2010
9:48 pm
Tebow is fortunate to be alive and to pursue his dream
Byron Mathison Kerr
January 28th, 2010
9:49 pm
To Hannah Carter, January 28th, 2010, 9:25 pm:
I am grateful to anyone who devotes time, energy, and/or financial resources to helping others. My comment was about those resources that go specifically into various anti-abortion activities.
But I am also grateful to all the anti-abortion advocates who are not killing doctors who perform abortions and are not harassing women who go to clinics to have abortions. So I guess I am easily grateful.
susan
January 28th, 2010
9:50 pm
@ Byron..PRO-CHOICE is a misnomer….if they were truly PRO-choice, they would acknowledge a person’s CHOICE to CHOOSE LIFE. There has to be more than one option for someone to have a CHOICE, ergo, in this instance, they must be to choose to GIVE LIFE to your child (pro-life) OR TO TAKE THAT LIFE AWAY (anti-life). Pro-choicers always kick up a fuss when someone says they CHOSE LIFE for their child.
Let’s face it, the planned parenthoods of this country disguise what abortion actually is. It IS the taking of a life. It is camoflauged by the term pro-choice. There should be an honesty about what abortion really is. IF they were to actually give the REAL facts, I am sure that many of the women who CHOOSE to have an abortion may reconsider. When I carried my daughter, she was a child, a baby, not a “fetus”. That is the language that is used in an effort to disassociate what is really happening inside your body. That makes it easier for people to have abortions…”it’s” just a fetus, “it” isn’t a baby, “it” isn’t human …YET
hotdawg
January 28th, 2010
9:51 pm
I agree with your statement
fralee
January 28th, 2010
9:51 pm
To the person who wondered “can we have an ad for the opposing view?” WE can have an ad if WE are willing to pay for it. The Super Bowl is a perfcet venue for the ad because as Tebow said “a lot of people will be watching.” If you want to get a message across you broadcast it to as wide an audience as possible. It’s called freedom of speech and free enterprise. Good for Tebow’s mom–although as a Georgia fan, my life would have been easier the last four years if she had made the opposite decision.
34
January 28th, 2010
10:07 pm
Nobody’s opinion on this subject will be changed in the least by these posts.
Mrs.D
January 28th, 2010
10:07 pm
@ susan I still mourn the loss of my child, I don’t think abortion should be as prevelant as it is, but I do think the option should be avaliable. I agree that it is a baby, I have enough guilt from my abortion to last a lifetime, but I also (thank goodness) have the love and support of my wonderful husband to help get me through those dark days of guilt and self-loathing.
I am glad that this ad has done what needs to happen most, gotten people talking and thinking.
BIOMASS
January 28th, 2010
10:08 pm
So how many of these do-gooder’s posting against abortion here have adopted unwanted children? Hummm? Speak up hypocrites!
Byron Mathison Kerr
January 28th, 2010
10:14 pm
To susan, January 28th, 2010, 9:50 pm:
I am not aware of any pro-choice on abortion advocates who only promote, or even prefer, the abortion option. That would be unimaginable! It is strictly a concern that the woman have the legal right to choose for herself to either have the child or end the pregnancy.
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
10:14 pm
BIOMASS….you are on fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BIOMASS
January 28th, 2010
10:15 pm
You fools want to outlaw abortion, right? Who do you think will get abortions after that? A Senator’s daughter gets knocked up, do you think he’s not going to be able to get an abortion for her? The poor girl/ woman is going to the back street butcher with a coat hanger, while rich people get the proper care. That’s what will happen.
Cristobal Franciso
January 28th, 2010
10:18 pm
BIOMASS,
Nobody wants you. How about we abort your a$$?
susan
January 28th, 2010
10:21 pm
@ Mrs.D Thank you for your honest post. I know that for most the decision to have any abortion is not an easy one. Most of my friends have had them – and I have always been supportive because I know that the decision is not an easy one. WE ALL make mistakes in life and have difficult choices to make. And MOST of the people that I know that have had abortions DO think about that child. I can’t imagine what it must be like. But I don’t hink that institutions such as planned parenthood do anything to prepare you for what you will feel later. The environment today seems to want to make abortion like getting a root canal – it will hurt for a little while but you will be fine. They sterilize the process emotionally. They make it very off-hand, no big deal, everyone does it, etc. AS you know, it is a very difficult decision that has long term effects and needs to be taken with much more seriousness than I see people discussing. It is not simply about pro-choice.
God bless and I wish you peace…
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
10:22 pm
Cristobal Francisco……you are now a MURDERER…..you are going to Hades to burn forever….you evil pro choicer
BIOMASS
January 28th, 2010
10:23 pm
Cristobal Franciso ,would you like to try it?
susan
January 28th, 2010
10:26 pm
@ byron, my point is that the pro-choice people do not embrace having a child as part of the choice. at least not publicly. whenever someone cones out with an ad endorsing the choice for life, the pro-choice people should acknowledge that that is one PART of a CHOICE. There are TWO choices….but they seem only to advocate one of those choices. they support those who choose to abort rather than to give life. If they only support the one, then it is NOT A CHOICE!!!
Cristobal Francisco
January 28th, 2010
10:29 pm
Biomass
Just because someone will break the law doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have laws to protect the innocent… Please go google “late term abortion” and see the travesty and evil that is going on…
Cristobal Francisco
January 28th, 2010
10:34 pm
Biomass,
I don’t want to “try” you… I don’t go there… You need to take that to mid-town…
True Dawg Fan.
January 28th, 2010
10:34 pm
BIOMASS
I hope you realize that if you had been aborted you would not be alive to post the selfish shortsided comment you just posted. My belief is that abortion is torture to the death for the innocent unborn.
God please forgive America for accepting abortion and please remember we have never had a chance to vote on it as a free people. Thank all for having the courage to stand up for the right of those who can’t speak for themselves–THE UNBORN. I doubt you would find many aborted who would be for it if they had an opportunity to express their views.
Thanks to the AJC for letting me express mine.
BIOMASS
January 28th, 2010
10:37 pm
Cristobal Franciso ,what’s “mid-town?” Is that a code word for your ilk?
BIOMASS
January 28th, 2010
10:38 pm
So, True Dawg Fan and Cristobal Francisco, I’ll ask once again, how many unwanted kids have you adopted?
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
10:39 pm
BIOMASS….you should google “Cristobal Francisco’s Mother”….be careful….you may pull up her escort ads from craigslist
Cristobal Francisco
January 28th, 2010
10:41 pm
Biomass
I don’t care that you’re gay… I have no problem with gay people… Unless they are unborn child murderers…
BIOMASS
January 28th, 2010
10:42 pm
Oh, I guess you’re all big talk, but not quite committed enough to actually do anything. Now what would Jebus say about that?
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
10:43 pm
Cristobal francisco….I just googled your mom……if she keeps offering up those services for $40….she may need to make an appointment with the clinic
Mrs.D
January 28th, 2010
10:44 pm
@susan, I agree, a friend of mine had an abortion last spring, I went with her for all the appointments, the whole process was so sterile and unfeeling, I had more emotional involvement at the vet’s office when my cat had to be put down. (not that a child is like a cat, but my cat was like my son, to me) I felt the same as I did when I had my abortion. In both situations I went in with two warm beating hearts and left with one (and a soaked hankie). At least at the vet they expected and anticipated the tears. At the clinic, with my friend, it was like I can’t cry, I might upset the other patients (and I was just there to be the driver and support for a friend.)
LGB
January 28th, 2010
10:46 pm
Well the problem with all of those that say that this is a free speech issue is that CBS has in the past disallowed groups that have bought airtime to air what they have called political messages. Abortion is a hot issue where people feel very strongly about it one way or another. If it really is pay to play it should be pay to play for everyone, not just whom CBS execs political views they agree with. And for the record I am pro-choice. Check this article if you want to learn more: http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Fundamentalists_to_Play_the_Super_Bowl_7741.html
Cristobal Francisco
January 28th, 2010
10:47 pm
BIOMESS,
So how many unwanted kids have you adopted? Are pro child murderers exempt from that?
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
10:50 pm
Cristobal Francisco….why don’t you have the balls to answer BIOMESS before asking the same question????? You are the one who is presenting yourself to be a better person
Cristobal Francisco
January 28th, 2010
10:51 pm
Philly Tide Fan,
Your comments display a complete lack of class or intelligence. No doubt you’re from the state of Alabama.
a1agator
January 28th, 2010
10:53 pm
if men could have babies there would be drive-thru abortion clinics everywhere.
Cristobal Francisco
January 28th, 2010
10:54 pm
I am not presenting myself as a better person… Just someone who knows right from wrong… And that abortion is the MURDER of a beautiful unborn child…
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
10:54 pm
Cristobal Francisco,
Did you not proclaim earlier that BIOMASS should have been aborted????? Nice class…..high level of intelligence….face it, you are a little queen who can not answer a simple question as it will expose your hypocritical ways…..
Iceman
January 28th, 2010
10:55 pm
I notice that everyone that is for abortion, is already alive.
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
10:55 pm
Cristobal Francisco…..nice job of not answering my question about war….Mr. Life is so precious….you are pretty pathetic
Cristobal Francisco
January 28th, 2010
10:58 pm
Not that it’s any of your busiess but yes I have adopted 2 children…
a1agator
January 28th, 2010
10:58 pm
if men could get pregnant there would be drive-thru abortion clinics.
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
10:59 pm
Cristobal is so full of crap…..
Byron Mathison Kerr
January 28th, 2010
10:59 pm
To susan, January 28th, 2010, 10:26 pm:
I understand what you are writing. I think the problem here is that this ad is a product of the Focus on the Family generic right-wing religious political organization that ultimately seeks to make abortion illegal again. Not surprisingly, it also promotes anti-gay rhetoric.
I do not think a lot of people are perceiving it as simply a celebration of Tebow’s mother’s decision to continue her pregnancy and end up having a talented and handsome young man for a son. I mean, who would possibly not want Tim Tebow in this world?!
But it is seen as an attempt to promote the organization’s ultimate agenda to further erode the rights of women to have that choice. And people who advocate for that choice have been put on the defense for quite some time now.
It is never a controversy to have a child. It only becomes a controversy when a woman chooses to have an abortion.
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
11:01 pm
a1agator…..I believe you are 100% right
Cristobal Francisco
January 28th, 2010
11:06 pm
Philly Tide Fan,
War sucks… I think the USA should only get involved in war when it or a close ally is directly attacked.
Philly Tide Fan
January 28th, 2010
11:11 pm
But innocent people are always killed in conflicts…..if you were not hypocritical…then you would be 100% against war….since life is soooooo precious
Cristobal Francisco
January 28th, 2010
11:13 pm
Philly,
Sorry but when Hitler took over Europe then something had to be done. When Japan attacked the USA, something had to be done. Sorry that you must have been responsible at some point for the murder of a unborn child.
Cristobal Francisco
January 28th, 2010
11:23 pm
Byron Mathison Kerr,
To say abortion is a controversy is an understatement… It is simply the murder of the most completely innocent human being…
Byron Mathison Kerr
January 28th, 2010
11:34 pm
To Cristobal Francisco, January 28th, 2010, 11:23 pm:
Well, that is the disagreement that creates the controversy.
Matchtuff
January 29th, 2010
12:20 am
Hey the ad is fine. The only thing that was a problem was fact that they wouldn’t accept these type of ads before(for or against). I say let people choose. I wonder would all those people who are for this ad be fine with the same exact ad with the same exact circumstances but instead of Tebow it was the guy would robbed your house last month!
mistermak
January 29th, 2010
12:36 am
Believe in Life- you worship GOD!! Believe you have a choice- you play GOD! What if your mom played GOD? By the way your president sponsored a bill to allow a bothced abortion baby to lay on the table a die.
Also the woman who was the president of planned parent hood resigned right after she witnessed a partial term abortion. What do you think about that? Celebrate Life because it is a gift and one day GOD will taketh it away!!
susan
January 29th, 2010
1:29 am
@ byron…i once knew a gut that said he would rather his girlf friend have an abortion than to know that there was a child of his out there that he didnt know…that is a VERY selfish attitutde. there are somethings in this life that are beyond YOU. And I think that most abortions are about what the public thinks….if you have an abortion nobody needs to know that you are pregnant…to have a child and give the child up for adoption makes your “mistake” obvious..to have an abortion enables you to hide it…of course it takes two to tango but men do not have to deal with that decision, but I think they should have a say in it
Ryan
January 29th, 2010
4:05 am
The absurd part is that in addition to the fact that they’re airing a Super Bowl advertisement about abortion, the host of the ad is a football player that hasn’t even made the NFL yet and most likely will not be a starting quarterback next year. Tebow, wait until it’s your day to come out and tell me my politics on Super Bowl Sunday. Wait until you’ve accomplished something in pro football. By coming out and doing this pre-draft, you show NFL fans how truly pompous and absurdly gratuitous your concept of yourself is, especially since pro scouts are seriously doubting that you will even be drafted as a quarterback. And the jump pass will never cut it in the NFL!
Clear Thinking People
January 29th, 2010
6:13 am
As one can see from the comments on this page, most are clear thinking people who have not based their lifestyle in total selfishness. Pro-life takes work, sacrifice, love and care…a baby that needs life. The comments coming from the pro-choice crowd are those who are engulfed in the total opposite…i,e. homesexuality is 100% selfish and produces a destructive population that is only concerned about personal pleasure albiet, sickness, OR, concerned about population control…too many people means less for me…Warren Buffet/Bill Gates have probably already donated the money for the homo-sexual add or a planned parenthood ad….they are the single largest financial contributors to planned parenthood abortion services…we can attribute about 25 million abortions just to their giving through the years. For every 1 child that is born through various pro-life services, 3 children are aborted.
Bill
January 29th, 2010
10:18 am
Is this not the USA? Where we have Freedom of Speech and express? Have we lost those rights? Now every time someone says something “we don’t agree with” are just mention the names, Bush, Obama, or Tebow and its “”POLITICAL AGENDAS”! Please tell me whats not Political? Everything is…Every ad at Super Bowl is politicial for someone. I fought for this great Country but I have become ashame because our on citizens want to take rights away from us that we fought for.. Freedom of Speech is #1 for our Freedom to continue. Its time America wakes up again before we have another attack and war. God Bless the USA.If you don’t believe in God, Bless you too because I do. ( Oh! God’s another political agenda, right?)
DannyX
January 29th, 2010
10:49 am
You always know when a “clear thinking” person starts talking for all the “clear thinking” people…
A speech by the morality police that doesn’t include divorce? Divorce has done far more harm to the US than gay relationships. A staggering 50% of all marriages fail leaving massive amounts of pain behind. Yet according to “clear thinking people” gay people are destroying civilization.
Divorce destroys families and friendships. It causes financial distress. Children are left in between bitter conflicts. Fathers are often not supporting their left behind children. Fathers are often not there for their children. People are forced to take sides and choose between friends they love.
I guess God’s another political agenda.
Barbara
January 29th, 2010
11:49 am
I am disgusted with this and with the gay ad. Neither belongs in sports.
DannyX
January 29th, 2010
12:27 pm
YOU GO BILL!!
Bill, do you know where we can send our letters to CBS demanding the free market gay ad be allowed to air at half-time. Its people like you that demand respect for things like free speech that make this country great!
Maybe I’ll see you on mandate.com soon Bill, my screen name is “IluvTomBrady”
Iluv supply and demand too. God Bless America!
James
January 31st, 2010
3:19 pm
We Americans have a right to think and say what we please. I only question why CBS decided against an add that was pro-gay marriage. I personally support both Tebow and gay marriage…I also support anyones right to run an add for an opinion opposite my own…What a radical thought in today’s America
puleseteresa
January 31st, 2010
11:15 pm
It’s highly likely that the Tim Tebow anti-abortion ad will contain some lies, or in the very least, lies of omission. There are some very important facts to keep in mind about the story Tim Tebow and his mother Pam will be telling:
Tebow’s mother claims that while she was being a missionary in the Philippines she contracted amebic dysentery and her doctors advised her that the antibiotics had lilely caused fetal damage and she should abort.
However, three problems: (1) Abortion was, and is, completely illegal in the Philippines. They are so barbaric that they don’t even care if the mother will die. (2) If the account is true, the doctors could have been sued for malpractice; there are approved dosages of antibiotics for pregnant women. (3) Pam Tebow is very much at fault; contracting this disease requires that you consume food that has been inadequately cooked or, in the case of raw veggies and fruits, not properly washed with safe water. These are things that she, as a pregnant woman, should have been aware of and taken care of. Otherwise, she’s as much at fault as a pregnant woman who drinks alcohol heavily during her prgnancy.
So the story they are likely to tell is false. She did not even have the choice of abortion, so she deserves no accolades for her “choice” because she had none. Had she actually chosen, then we could say “Good for you. You got lucky and your son turned out healthy.” But we could only say this IF she actually had the choice (which she didn’t). The point is: Choice is the key. If a woman chooses to risk her life so that her baby might live, then that’s her choice. If she chooses to say her life is more important than that of her fetus she has that choice also. However if choice is abandoned then all women will ne FORCED to accept every pregnancy – whether she’s a 15-year old who’s been raped by her abusive father, or a random woman who’s raped by a serial rapist stranger, or a woman who’s life, and the life of her child, is likely to end if she does not get an abortion. It’s immoral, unethical and inhumane. Most women to not choose to have an abortion. It’s a difficult, painful choice. But it must remain that – A CHOICE!
Casey
February 1st, 2010
8:27 pm
Can we please have one day without partisan rancor? 90% of the millionaires in the NFL are republican, but they wisely keep their mouths shut so as to not alienate the half of their audience that isn’t.
Josephine
May 15th, 2010
12:40 am
Its a women’s body and a women’s choice. Keep your judgement and hands off our bodis.