pro-choice means pro-CHOICE – not pro-abortion or pro-death.

there is nothing wrong with celebrating the choice of life.

why anyone thinks it is a bad thing is beyond me. And i am pro-choice.
There is nothing wrong with showing girls/women that you also have the choice of life.
And we should all hope that we reduce, possibly eliminate, the need for abortions, at all.
I think NOW is taking the wrong position. Good for CBS, if they air this.

Well said Sara, I agree. It’s about choice not pro-abortion. Although in my heart I do feel that the movement is more or less about abortion and not so much about choosing life. But either way, it’s about having the choice not making the choice.

I can’t say this much matters to me. If I watch more than a few plays, I’d be surprised. The Super Bowl is a snooze for me. The announcers are a bunch of bloated, run-on sentence spewing, gossipy, rambling, narcissistic Peter Pans, the half-time is low brow and tacky, the play review is tedious and boring and the commercials are interminable. When did we lose real, honest-to-God football, and why? As for the message, I think America can do much better with much less Tebow.

Maybe too cynical, but CBS might be stating “that revenue would be pretty awesome”!

Not because of super bowl ads, but their predictions of what’s to come via recent SCOTUS decision with unlimited corporate and union funds to finance their political advocacy projects.

Where did Focus on the Family get this money to pay for this ad? In August 2009, they were pleading for donors to get them out of debt, as they claimed to be broke. They promised their donors they would be fiscally responsible with the money donors sent to them. Now is this being fiscally responsible or are they using this is a propaganda ploy for people to send them more money to waste?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/08/11/national/a175609D05.DTL

Go Peyton! (And bring back Janet Jackson for halftime.)

That’s a really interesting link, Facebook User.

And I’m with Triplett on this one. As long as CBS is consistent with their stated policies, what’s the harm? The marketplace is open to all, and a well-constructed advocacy ad — even if it’s advocating a position I disagree with — is likely to be more interesting and spur more discussion than the latest ad pushing crummy watery beer. They should’ve run the UCC ad a few years back, and I see no reason why they shouldn’t run the Focus on the Family ad now.

That’s what we need. More involvement by the Super – Christies.

Christian or not, what is wrong with the message? What are the lefties who are ‘for’ abortion affraid of? Oh No! Someone might decide not to get an abortion because of what Tim Tebow said? Oh the horror!

In the words of Larry King; ‘What do you care?’

Facebook User. I believe FotF says they got money from an individual donor who is specifically paying for the ad. While it’s fair to ask how they can afford it, I could ask the same question everytime I see a Chrysler or GM ad since they are allegedly broke too.

I’ve been around many moderates, progressives and liberals during my life, and I have yet to meet a single one who was pro-abortion. In fact, I’ve none a number of these people who have worked with young women to find viable alternatives to abortions they were considering.

I’ve been around many rightists during my life, and I have never met one who was pro-life. Each have thought that we don’t execute enough people as quickly as we should. Ergo, they are simply anti-abortion with little regard for the value of life.

Hey liberal, WTF is an ‘ontogeny’?

Liberalontogeny, never mind, I looked it up ;)
ontogeny, ontogenesis ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.

Yeah, I’ll be waiting for the progressives(funded by Soros naturally) to come out with a commercial of a woman saying, “I had an abortion, and now I don’t have to take care of any kids.. and you can too today! Call now!”

Thank God Tebow made it past the ‘not human life stage’ to tell us.

rmbltmbl said something very beautiful: “Thank God Tebow made it past the ‘not human life stage’ to tell us.”

Very Nice Trickletown!

You can apply to conservatives as well. Simply, people are not born “conservative” or “liberal”.Just like People are not born speaking english or french. They learn it.

Person’s life events (friends, TV, envoronment) develop their liberal or conservative leanings. In the definition you provide, replace “organism” with “Human Being”

rmbltmbl – You qualify for dumb ass status. It’s hard to imagine a bigger moron…maybe Jim W.

I have no problem with the ad, as long as CBS is consistent with its position.

That said, the ad is not persuasive in the least.

There are only two questions one should have to decide whether the ad in question should be aired: 1. Is the First Amendment still in effect? 2. Is the ad paid for? I believe the answer to both questions is “YES.” Therefore, the ad should run. Maybe the pro-abortion folks can run an ad showing a partial birth abortion.

If the pro-choice folks have a message, they should be able to put it out there as well. Actually, I would like to see how that ad goes. Might be a lesson in marketing and spin. How exactly do you promote abortion?

“I was going to have twins, but thanks to a long needle and a vacuum, I’ve only got one. When the doctor asked me which one I wanted to keep, I just told him, surprise me!”

Zakk, “pro-choice” != “pro-abortion”. But nice straw man, though.

Awww, thanks Ted for contributing to the conversa– for your contribution. You know how much I value your very constructive criticism!

Ted says:
January 28, 2010 at 4:14 pm

Jim W. – Were you going to simply make accusations or offer up anything of substance? Just curious.