Posted on 12/01/2010 4:03:28 PM PST by wagglebee
For only three hours a year do Americans actually look forward to watching commercials rather than ignoring them, muting them or running to the bathroom during them, as we do the other 8,763 hours.
That is during the Super Bowl.
In fact, commercials have become part of the entertainment during football's annual big game, a cultural phenomenon.
So imagine a 30-second Super Bowl ad showing the graphic reality of abortion.
Most Americans, including many pro-lifers, would abhor such an ad.
But pro-life activists like me would be ecstatic, if such a word can be used to describe fulfillment of a passion to see a multitude of people face the truth about abortion. Activists believe that only by understanding the reality of abortion will the culture be wholeheartedly persuaded against it.
And the publicity, oh, the publicity. Recall the controversy surrounding Focus on the Family's pro-life pablum Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow earlier this year. This would be that on gigamegalo-steroids.
And there is a chance such a commercial will air during the 2012 Super Bowl.
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A baby is murdered EVERY 24 SECONDS, if the images offend people maybe it will make them consider what our nation is doing.
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While I understand the need to do this, I am not in favor it it. Very small children will be watching the SuperBowl. It is bad enough they have to see all the beer commercials and all the other raunchy stuff.
I think ads would be way more appropriate on shows young adults watch - shows like Grey’s Anatomy, etc. Superbowl has millions of viewers but little ones are innocent and should be spared.
Over 50 million Americans were murdered in the womb in the past 38 years. The next time you drive by a school look at all the children there and then imagine the outcry if for every two children you see one other was murdered by someone with a semi-automatic weapon. The fact of the matter is that for every two children you see at a school, another child was murdered in an abortion clinic. And the only outcry is against those pointing this out.
Knowing the entertainment industry, and government (of which football is both), they will never allow this.
I also think it’s the wrong audience, even though it’s the right message.
Put the commercial on during OPRAH.
I think people should know what they’re supporting. Pro-abortion? Okay then, take a look at it.
I understand your point... but it is ironic you should use those words. That is the whole point of the ad, to spare the innocent ones (pre-born innocent ones).
Better yet, put it on MTV.
At least you would be hitting the ‘target’ audience.
If someone is pro-infanticide, then they should be required to see what they’re positions entail.
Oh good lord i could just see Oprah giving away gift certificates to planed murderhood
I abhor abortion, but this should not be shown during the Super Bowl. Watching is a family tradition for many. There are children watching. It does not further the anti-abortion cause.
Compassion for the unborn should not override that for the born.
I agree. I don't want my children to see graphic abortions on TV.
Heck I'm so sick of the other crap that comes on TV while watching entirely wholesome TV on channels that should be safe at 6 PM or even 10 AM Saturday. For instance, while watching Andy Griffith or something like that, is it really necessary to carry Viagra/Cialis/Make "Bob's" Thing Larger commercials?
Back to the issue, while I do think the general pro-choice or antipathetic community at large should be forced to see that it really is a gruesome awful killing, doing so in a way that exposes innocent children is to be avoided. Tebow's add was more along the lines that I would accept.
FFS, NO, it should not be shown.
I think yours would be a much better approach, although the typical length of a Superbowl commercial would not permit all of that information to be contained in a single spot.
A problem with the graphic abortion pictures is that those who are strongly “pro-choice” can always tell themselves that it was never alive, that it was never more than a thing that resembles a baby. In fact, I once read an article quoting a nurse who started assisting with abortions, “At first, it was hard, seeing all the pre-babies. But then I got used to it.” Only seeing the babies dead, she was able to maintain the fiction that they were never alive to begin with.
Showing the actual live, moving babies in the womb makes it a little more difficult to maintain a state of denial that they are alive. In a college biology class back in the 80s, the teacher showed us a film in which cameras were somehow inserted into the womb, and there was actual footage of a living, moving baby at various stages of growth, starting at a few weeks, ending in the third trimester. One of the girls watching the film had tragedy written all over her face—I had to guess that she had had an abortion and was forced to face, for the first time, exactly what she had done to her child.
FFS, NO, it should not be shown.
Poor woman. I never condemn girls and women that get abortions due to fear or pressure from boyfriends. Sadly, their sentence (without Christ) is a lifetime of guilt and regret or, worse, continued degredation from corrupt living. Like most things that are really screwed up or evil, it’s the leadership in human affairs that betrays the trust of the people or spits on morality. People forget that Jesus beat the living crap out of religious and national leaders - without apology.
I can certainly see the wisdom of this. For what it's worth, the NFL and network will certainly place restrictions on how graphic any ad can be. However, the fact remains that these images SHOULD offend people, it IS NOT a trivial matter.
I was in high school in the early 80s when MADD started their campaign against drunk driving and much of it was aimed directly at teens, but they were also going into elementary schools. The images of drunk driving fatalities were gruesome, disturbing and tragic; BUT they also worked, people started wearing seat belts, rates of drunk driving dropped, courts started to take drunk driving seriously and fatalities dropped significantly.
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