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Why Is NOW So Afraid of a Pro-Life, Pro-Family Ad?
FOXNews.com ^ | 2/1/10 | Marjorie Dannenfelser

Posted on 02/01/2010 4:41:53 PM PST by rhema

What is the National Organization for Women afraid of? Apparently a touching story about a courageous woman who chooses life in the face of adversity is just too much to take. And when her football star son decides to share that story on Super Bowl Sunday, well, that goes too far. It’s “divisive.”

NOW and its affiliate organizations the Feminist Majority and Women’s Media Center are condemning the Super Bowl advertisement featuring Tim Tebow and his mother Pam, calling it an offensive “anti-choice” ad.

Could you imagine anything more ironic? The organization that purports to embrace women and “choice” is desperately clamoring to shut down the most loving choice of all: the choice for life. Yet the women of NOW can’t abide 30 seconds of a heart-warming story. What would producers at Lifetime Television say?

Let’s be real. What’s the worst case scenario here? That if Americans hear this message they will choose to make sacrifices in order to have a child and bring a wonderful life in to the world? That’s hardly an abhorrent message.

These groups are not “for” women and they don’t want them to have a “choice.” They only want women to “choose” the path of abortion. Never mind that abortion has been shown over and over to be destructive in numerous ways, both physically and psychologically. But, *please* don’t tell people that there are alternatives.

In their efforts to cling to the old feminist mantra that we somehow “need” abortion, NOW sells American women short. They assume that women are so weak-brained and easily manipulated that they must be protected from a life-affirming message.

This fracas over the Super Bowl illustrates perfectly how NOW & Co. are losing their grip as their pro-abortion position sinks in public opinion. For the first time in decades,

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: fearfuldems; now; proaborts; prolife; prolifeads; superbowl; superbowlads; timtebow
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1 posted on 02/01/2010 4:41:53 PM PST by rhema
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To: Caleb1411; cpforlife.org; Salvation; MHGinTN; wagglebee
As a mother of five, I can only say I’d much rather have my children watch the Tebow story than the hundreds of other things they might see during the Super Bowl. Somehow I think the majority of American sports fans, women and men alike, will be able to appreciate the blessings of life expressed by the Tebow family. If this beautiful story of family unity, sacrifice and triumph is too harsh on the eyes and ears for so-called women’s groups, I have two words of advice: mute button.
2 posted on 02/01/2010 4:43:37 PM PST by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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To: rhema

Of course NOW has NEVER been “divisive”

Neither has Roe v. Wade

These people are outrageously dangerous


3 posted on 02/01/2010 4:44:25 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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Desperately seeking relevance:

Earlier this year, NOW President Terry O'Neill, confessed to the National Journal that the organization is struggling. "It seems to me we are stalled out..."

4 posted on 02/01/2010 4:47:30 PM PST by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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To: rhema
Their afraid they might see a drop in revenue, that's what they're afraid of.

Choice, my ass.

5 posted on 02/01/2010 4:48:03 PM PST by workerbee (Yes, I hate Obama because of his color: RED!)
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To: rhema
Some one said that a positive, heart warming story can only be written from one side of the abortion controversy, and it is not the pro-choice side. That's why they don't want it.
6 posted on 02/01/2010 4:52:40 PM PST by oldbrowser (The audacity of incompetence)
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To: rhema

Why is NOW so afraid of this ad? Because it reminds these angry, embittered ,dried out, post-menopausal , childless harridans that they are just that: angry, embittered, dried-out, post-menopausal, childless harridans and they can’t stand to see a woman choose to bring life into the world and be happy for it. . In the nags world, misery loves company. (and abortion).


7 posted on 02/01/2010 4:55:04 PM PST by John-Irish ("Shame of him who thinks of it''.)
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To: rhema

When it comes to trading in death and coldblooded genocide, the abortion peddlers don’t take a backseat to any of the butchers in mankind’s history. They are pros.


8 posted on 02/01/2010 4:59:15 PM PST by pallis
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To: rhema
Why are they afraid?

Look at Tim Tebow.

This ad might make women who have had abortions question whether it was the right 'choice'.

And it might give pause to women who are tempted to make the 'choice' in the future.

Tim Tebow puts a face to abortion.
He is no arbitrary 'product of conception'...

He is a living, breathing, good looking athlete...

..and every woman has to ask....'what if'

That's what NOW is afraid of.

9 posted on 02/01/2010 5:03:00 PM PST by Guenevere (....)
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To: rhema

It never was about “choice.” Like so many examples, the left perverts the meaning of words for its own advancement. They say “choice,” which, to most people, means an alternative, that one could opt for one way or another way, for one act or another act, etc. However, to the banshees at NOW and their leftist enablers, “choice” means nothing of the kind. No, to them, choice means only one option, one alternative, one act: abortion. To “choose” anything other than abortion is no choice at all, but some sort of fascism.


10 posted on 02/01/2010 5:18:03 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: rhema

Why? -”Believe like WE believe, or be silenced!”

-courtesy of the party of peace, love and tolerance...


11 posted on 02/01/2010 5:34:00 PM PST by J40000
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To: John-Irish

Love it! And Gloria Allred (sp?) on Kelly’s show today opined that because abortion was illegal at the time of Tim’s birth a CBS disclaimer to that effect should be part of the ad! Never mind that health of the mother would have been a mitigating factor. Talk about a derangement syndrome.


12 posted on 02/01/2010 5:37:56 PM PST by Mach9 (.)
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To: pallis

***trading in death and coldblooded genocide***

Absolutely!

Keep repeating: They are not pro-choice - they are ONLY PRO-ABORTION.

Since 1973 FIFTY MILLION AMERICANS HAVE BEEN KILLED in this genocide.

Murdered by a scalpel or killed by a coat-hanger - abortion is still murder.


13 posted on 02/01/2010 5:41:21 PM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: rhema

“Pro Choice” is really just a euphemism for pro death.


14 posted on 02/01/2010 5:42:45 PM PST by ME-262 (We need Term Limits for the federal house and senate. We need new Bums up there.)
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To: rhema

I will not say that every member of NOW is a Marxist lesbian.

I will say that every member of NOW I have ever known was a Marxist lesbian.

But that is not conjecture, it is a statement of fact.


15 posted on 02/01/2010 5:43:48 PM PST by 240B (he is doing everything he said he would'nt and not doing what he said he would)
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To: Mach9

What? Roe v. Wade was 1973

“The law of the land” since then. Tebow is what, 23 at most?

Math major, Gloria?


16 posted on 02/01/2010 5:43:55 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: rhema
now you know why NOW hates Sarah palin so much, she kept Trig her down syndrome baby.............i can just see the NOW hags freaking out because this will be seen by so many folks and they may even stop and think about what an abortion really is...
17 posted on 02/01/2010 5:50:57 PM PST by Beamreach
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Sorry—I should have added “in the Philippines.” She’d checked on Philippine abortion law to come up with her argument against CBS’s decision to air. She either hadn’t discovered or refused to recognize that even Philippino law excepted health of the mother which, of course, was a factor in the ad. What didn’t come up at all was whether or not Tebows were assigned to Clark or other military base where, after 1973, abortion would have been legal (if not U. S. subsidized).


18 posted on 02/01/2010 6:05:21 PM PST by Mach9 (.)
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To: sodpoodle

Since 1973 FIFTY MILLION AMERICANS HAVE BEEN KILLED in this genocide.
************

Can you imagining travelling to a foreign planet, observing its society, and upon asking how many people lived there, you were told “250 million; it would have been 300 million except we killed 50 million while in their mother’s womb. Convenience, you know?”


19 posted on 02/01/2010 6:12:09 PM PST by Canedawg (Our government has become a travesty.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
Their "point," such as it is, is that Pam Tebow and her busband were missionaries in the Philippines at that time, and unborn children were (and, I think, are) protected by law via anti-abortion legislation.

Nevertheless, your point is correct. In the first place, if Pam Tebow had wanted to abort her baby boy, she could have come back to the USA to do it: the Philippines was just a temporary assignment for her.

In the second place, the Philippines has a "necessity defense" written explicitly into statute law: if her survival were truly at risk -- a genuine toss-up between her life and the baby's life ---this law could be invoked to legally justify a life-saving procedure. (This law was quoted by another FReeper in a previous thread.)

So NOW and Gloria Allred are simply retailing falsehoods once again. Which doesn't surprise anybody. I think even their followers have come to expect it.

20 posted on 02/01/2010 6:16:36 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child who's got his own." Arthur Herzog Jr./Billie Holiday)
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