The pro-choice movement is not about choice. If they were about choice they would have no problem with Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl ad, which highlights his mother’s choice to give him life.
A simple ad with the theme “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life” has now been deemed by the National Organization for Women “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning.” The Women’s Media Center says an ad that uses sports to “divide rather than unite has no place in the biggest national sports event of the year.”
The groups are demanding that CBS pull the ad, which is paid for by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family. CBS is defending its decision and says it has changed its mind about airing advocacy ads, which it had rejected in the past.
Why all the controversy around this ad? Because it highlights Mrs. Tebow’s choice and it’s not the choice the ‘pro-choicers’ like.
In the ad, Pam Tebow is expected to talk about how she decided to ignore doctors’ advice to abort her fifth child when she suffered complications during a 1987 mission trip to the Philippines. Tim Tebow, a beloved figure in Florida and around the country, told reporters this week he was happy to do the ad, because “that’s the reason I’m here, because my mom was a very courageous woman.”
However, she’s not courageous in the way the ‘pro-choicers’ would like.
Let’s be clear here, public opinion on abortion is swaying. More and more people are identifying themselves as pro-life and even more youth are pro-life and actively taking a stand against the pro-abortion movement. And those in the pro-abortion movement are nervous about the future of abortion in this country.
A commercial like the Tebow commercial is a threat to the ‘pro-choice’ movement. The outrage directed toward the ad makes it clear, ‘pro-choicers’ aren’t for choices, they’re for one choice–abortion.