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Pro-Life Super Bowl Showdown
January 18, 2010
Heisman winner Tim Tebow’s Super Bowl ad for life
Pro-life sentiment continues to mount in America and the struggle to protect the rights of the unborn will take another major step forward on Super Bowl Sunday. 2007 Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother Pam will be featured in a 30 second commercial titled “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life”.
Sponsored by Dr James Dobson’s Focus On The Family, the Super Bowl spot will cover Pamela Tebow’s courageous decision not to abort her child against the advice of physicians. The child, Tim, turns out to have been born quite healthy.
Pamela Tebow had been a missionary in the Philippines while carrying Tim and had become gravely ill after drinking contaminated water. The drugs required to save Pam’s life had been known to produce birth defects. Her doctors recommended that she terminate the child’s life.
This rush to “pull the plug” on an unborn child’s life is typical of doctors involved in the business of abortion, who pass such pressure off as the “compassion of abortion”. Expectant mothers facing the possibility of bringing a child with birth defects into the world are given overly grim pictures of the child’s quality of life and the hardships in caring for such children. In Pamela Tebow’s case, the mere possibility of birth defects was considered sufficient basis for aborting her baby.
The Tebow family hopes that the recounting of Pamela’s decision will inspire women facing a similar dilemma to choose life for their children. But that can only happen if the ad actually runs as scheduled.
There is absolutely no doubt that in the upcoming weeks the hard core abortion lobby will place considerable pressure on CBS not to air “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life”. Catholic Vote.org attempted to run a similar ad titled “Life: Imagine The Potential” during last year’s Super Bowl. The ad was rejected outright by NBC, laughably citing a principled position of not running advertisements based upon “political advocacy or issues.”
Pulling the Catholic Vote ad was hardly a surprise. GE owned NBC is unabashedly linked to the Obama administration, which may have never come to be without the million of dollars and votes contributed to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign by the abortion industry. CBS has had little to say so far, but the attack on the Tebows’ ad will intensify as the game approaches. Should the network refuse to back down to the abortion lobby, we can expect further pressure to be applied by pro-abortion members of congress and, more discreetly, aides from the White House.
Abortion ideologues and profiteers have always contrived to cloud the realities of abortion in euphemisms. In labeling the dismemberment, decapitation or poisoning of one million pre-born American children each year a “political issue”, the goal is to equate abortion with something as pedestrian as taxes and spending in the minds of the public.
But more and more Americans are beginning to understand that those one million innocent lives per year constitute the human rights issue of our time. And in response, as we pointed out in Abortion Incorporated 2010, the abortion industry will be attempting to bring the full power of the federal government to bear on the pro-life community this year. If we wish to expand upon the success of the pro-life message during the last three years, it is paramount that “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life” run as scheduled during the Super Bowl.
In order for that to take place the pro-life community needs to start countering the inevitable pressure that will be applied to CBS from the abortion industry. Contact CBS and thank them for scheduling a Super Bowl advertisement dedicated to family and children. Tell CBS candidly that we understand the pressure they are being subjected to and implore them to maintain their integrity. Thank CBS for understanding that life is not a “political issue”.
And almost as importantly, thank CBS for not scheduling another Janet Jackson “flash dance”.
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