What are you focusing on during the Super Bowl?
As Kristin told you yesterday, when Focus on the Family's Super Bowl ad airs, we want to give you the chance to focus on something else.
I've been following #FocusOn on Twitter (yes, I'm one of those Twitter people), and I've already seen some great responses.
To participate, just tweet this and fill in the blank: FocusOnTheFamily is anti-choice & anti-gay. When its SuperBowl ad runs, I'll join @naral & #FocusOn _______________ http://bit.ly/b9RoSE
You can also join the fun on Facebook.
Here are my personal favorite tweets so far:
- @RekzDX72: I'll join @naral & #FocusOn MY Family
- @cburley: I'll join @naral & #FocusOn *real* family values
- @madlolscientist: I'll join @naral & #FocusOn my gay friends
- @corvaire: I'll join @naral & #FocusOn Puppy Bowl w/Kitty 1/2-time!
- @chickgonebad: I'll join @naral & #FocusOn pure joy & love
And of course I really love this one!
@HSlater351: FocusOnTheFamily is anti-choice & anti-gay. I'll join @naral & #FocusOn a $10 donation to support choice http://bit.ly/b9RoSE Pls RT
So what will you #FocusOn? Tell your friends on Facebook or Twitter!

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Wow, what is the big deal...last I read the Constitution there was something about free speech. Back off.
When Focus on the Family airs their ad, I will be thankful that I also chose life. Without chosing life, I would not HAVE a family.
as far as I can tell, this IS a pro-choice ad.....Tebow's Mom CHOSE to NOT ABORT!!!
You all are getting desperate, aren't you?
What happened to free speech? Your right not to hear what Tebow has to say ends where my right to hear it begins.
You guys need to give it up. Nobody is on your side except your hateful brethren. NYTimes, Washington Post, and every other major media outlet favors the Tebow ad, free speech, positivity and a story of love. Take your hate back; nobody wants it.
As you can see by the other comments on here, being pro-choice is a reflection of the minority of the population. Freedom of speech in this country is dead. Tebow and his mom are telling their story. Leave them alone. If you don't wanna watch it, don't.
When Tebow's ad comes on, I will be thankful that the constitution gives us the right to watch speak our minds.
Focus is not anti-choice; it's anti murder. Focus is not anti-gay; it's against homosexual behavior. The Bible teach us to love the sinner but hate the sin.
I love these comments! I was expecting readers here to support this effort to quash the right of FoF to speak their piece, but instead you guys are getting it right! Bravo! The only "choice" these abortion proponents support is the "choice" to abort. Anything that differs from that is something they desperately scramble to silence. Thank God they're not successful! I, for one, can't WAIT to see the ad, and I might set up a twitter account JUST to tweet about the folly of NARAL trying to intimidate pro-lifers into silence.
It's funny how when the left has something to say we should all listen up, but when the right wants to voice an opionion we are too "opionionated" or "hateful"...nothing like a double standard...support LIFE...someone CHOSE YOURS!
I will Focus on over 50 million babies killed since Roe v. Wade and offer a moment of silence for that awful choice.
Seriously? This is about choice. Hate it if you want, but Tebows mom chose to not kill her son. Why hate on that choice?
I'm loving all of the attention that the pro-abortion groups are giving this ad and all of the discussions they are sparking. The ad could have gone unnoticed but now, everyone will be watching for it and will get to witness the result of a positive "choice".
When Focus on the Family's ad runs with Tim Tebow, I'll be focusing on how proud I am of this young, Godly man standing up for beliefs despite the threat of public scrutiny. God forbid that people like he and Carrie Prejean make statements about their personal beliefs that don't fall in line with the politically correct. I'm here because my mother chose life, and I'm married to a wonderful woman whose mother chose life. Far beyond that, I'm thankful for a woman who chose life over 2000 years ago when she gave birth to my LORD and Savior Jesus Christ (despite that she claimed to be a virgin and was pregnant out of wedlock). I can't wait to see the ad, and I hope it makes EVERYONE think before they make the WRONG choice! CHOOSE LIFE!!!
The ad is a celebration of life....life is a CHOICE right?
Our family can't wait to see the ad!!!! Our eight year old son is adopted. We know that the only choice is LIFE!!! Way to go Tim Tebow!
The hypocricy of the lunatic fringe left is breathtaking. They demand to be called pro-choice. But, when someone makes the choice for life and shares their heart, they have a hissy fit and show their true baby killing colors.
Sounds like the only CHOICE you ladies are for is DEATH. So glad my mom chose life for my twin & me!
Pro Choice and Pro Hate have become synonymous.
I won't be watching the Super Bowl. I'll probably be playing with my Grandson and be so thankful that my daughter chose to give him life. I'm so glad the Lord blessed me enough to let me give birth to her.
I for one am very thankful that my Mom and Dad CHOSE to give me life. Most of all, I'm thankful that Jesus Christ chose to die for my sins that I can have ETERNAL LIFE! Now that's what I call choice, right? Everybody of course has a right to their opinion, just like this blog. But I'm proud of all the people who are PRO-LIFE standing up for their beliefs on here! God bless everybody!
"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15. I'll be singing the hymn, "I will choose Christ, I will choose Love, I choose to serve..." AFTER we all watch the ad and give thanks for free speech.
PRO LIFE!My Mom was told by my biological (who didn't bother) to get an abortion. He already had kids. My Mom was told she wouldn't be able to have kids. She chose me. Later on had another son as well. I have a friend and a cousin who both were raped and had their kids and love them unconditionally. Kids weren't asked to be brought into messed up situations. If girls just want an abortion cause they can't keep their pants up, then maybe the parents need to re-evaluate their raising of their kid(s). If you don't want the baby, there are plenty of people like my wife and I who can't have kids and would gladly love the child as their own. A fetus's DNA is it's own. It's NOT the same as it's mother's making it a living being inside another. A baby was a plan by God before it was ever in the womb.
When the Tebow ad runs, I will be proud to watch it. Why are you people so threatened by choosing LIFE????
It is finally out of the bag. "Pro-choice" really does mean "Pro-Abortion". Tebow's mother made a CHOICE. People who are pro-abortion are not to happy right now about choice. You people need to look up the history of abortion. You'd be surprised to find that it really didn't result from people supporting a "woman's right to choose". That's just how they market it to make it popular or have a wide range of support. Progressives sure are good at propaganda.
When Focus on the Family airs their ad, I will be thankful that my mother also chose life. Lucky for me, I was born in 1970, before Roe v Wade was forced upon the states. If what happened to my parents would have happened now, not only would there be a possibility of abortion being a choice, but my father could have been arrested for statutory rape. My mother was only 17 when she became pregnant with me and my father was nearly 21. Of course, back then there was more a sense of personal responsibility. there's consequences to everything you do. Take responsibility for your actions. Where has this country gone?
Thanks for shedding light on such a positive ad! I'm sure many more people will be "focusing" on it now that it's getting such attention. So glad Mrs. Tebow made the CHOICE she did. The result is a precious baby boy who grew into a wonderful young man.
Furthermore, if you don't agree with it, then don't watch it. I would be more afraid of the day when ALL of our freedom of speech gets squashed. Then we'll really have a problem. Besides....didn't YOUR mom CHOOSE life?
I'll never join @naral and #FocusOn how much strength and love it took for the Tebow family to first CHOOSE life and then CHOOSE to do this ad, to share their story.
A portion of NARAL's mission statement is as follows:
NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation's mission is to support and protect, as a fundamental right and value, a woman's freedom to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices through education, training, organizing, legal action, and public policy.
Hey NARAL, choices through education? EDUCATION INVOLVES FULL KNOWLEDGE OF BOTH SIDES. Since when does educating a woman on her reproductive rights only involve ONE CHOICE?
Time to get your ducks in a row. Or maybe adjust that mission statement, since your stance here doesn't exactly match up with it at all.
What a hate filled group you are NARAL, and you always have been. It is WONDERFUL to see the comments above. You should remember that you can spew this nonsense you offer as valid info only because you were BORN...Get it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdOCwd9EttE
So tell me, is that what you think this is.....FUN? When the Tebow ad runs, I will be proud to watch it and continue to feel sorry for those who are threatened by people who DO choose LIFE!!
Wow. Just, wow. When CBS runs the Tebow ad I will focus on the fact that the liberals have not yet been able to silence free speech. Right to "choose" my butt. The only "choice" you people respect is the choice to butcher a child. You have no respect for those who choose life, for those who would give their own life to save that of another (especially their own flesh and blood), or for those who would choose to watch a an ad that promotes self-sacrifice and faith instead of a non-sense commercial full of boobs and beer. Get over yourselves. LOTS OF LOVE TO THE TEBOW FAMILY!
It is SOOOO NICE to see all these Pro-Life Pro-TRUTH comments!!! Keep it up everybody!!!!!!
Pro-choice... I thought CHOOSING to give life WAS a CHOICE... so... I just have to say that the outrage from all you pro-choice people has made me decide to WATCH the superbowl just SO I CAN SEE THE AD!!!! I HATE FOOTBALL but I am going to watch just to support the CHOICE Mrs Tebow made... the CHOICE to GIVE LIFE!!! Good going there... wonder how many others there are like me... if it weren't for you all coming out so strongly against this ad then I wouldn't have even KNOWN about it let alone being supportive of it!!!! WTG!!!
Hey there....just wanting to let you know that I AM a FAN of Focus on the FAMILY and a FAN of TIM TEBOW!!! HERE IS HIS (TEBOW) FAN PAGE!! You might want to follow HIM too!!http://www.facebook.com/TebowSuperBowlAd?ref=mf
Oh... and BTW... when you come before the judgment seat I wonder just how much innocent blood will be on YOUR HANDS... You REALLY need to think about that because it IS GOING TO HAPPEN and when it does I guarantee you WILL REMEMBER this little blog comment that warned you!!!
There's enough of a chorus here already, but I'll throw in my two cents anyway.
If you're going to call yourself pro-choice, you should be working toward ways to make alternatives to abortions more accessible. Encouraging people to NOT abort is an encouragement to seek other solutions.
However, if by "pro-choice" you are actually intent on preserving the option of abortion at the expense of finding more humane alternatives, then you need to call yourself "pro-abortion." If you do not seek to increase the range of options available to women in vulnerable situations, then you aren't really "pro-choice."
Oh, and yes. I'm pro-life.
I will be thrilled--and proud--to watch Mr. Tebow's ad. You people at NARAL are obviously so heavily invested in a culture of murder for hire, that any dissent really bugs you, doesn't it? GOOD.
i will choose to focus on the fact that she had the freedom to choose. i know this ad will focus on her choice, and will push it's anti-choice agenda, but i will focus on the fact she had the freedom to choose, which is something our daughters may not have if groups like focus on the family get there way.
Kudos to the Tebow Family for standing up for innocent lives. I am looking forward to the ad airing on Super Bowl Sunday and also the more detailed full version ad that FOTF will be releasing before Sunday. Let's Love the Least (a lot) www.abort73.com
Since one of the NARAL supporters decided to support their organization by donating $10, I'll donate $20 to Focus on the Family and the rest of my life to insuring that mothers have the freedom to CHOOSE - LIFE!
This IS an issue of morality.Disagreeing with NARAL's philosophy doesn't make me an anti-female or homophobic.
God bless the silent majority of America who is finally standing up and supporting life! Just reading all these comments is inspiring!!
I stand behind NARAL's effort, because:
1. I respect a woman's right to make choices that affect her life, her body and her family. I've seen to many men resort to violence and coercion in dictating what women's choices *should* be to think that we -- as a country -- should ever silence women's voices in issues concerning sex or childbearing.
2. I respect life. Pre- Roe v. Wade, illegal abortions caused uncounted deaths. In countries where such bans are still in place, they still do. Likewise, not allowing for abortions to protect the health of a woman leads to even more deaths.
3. I respect the right to free speech. As much as the Tebow family has the right to express their views, NARAL also has a constitutionally protected right to express their views as well.
In terms of respect for free speech, how are all the "give it up NARAL" comments above any different from NARAL's efforts to highlight the problems with Focus on the Family's ad? It seems to me that many of the critics here are being pretty selective in their support of free speech.
4. I respect responsible practices in the media and fairness in corporate policies. CBS is not providing a counter-viewpoint to what is inarguably a contentious national issue. CBS continues to reject other "controversial" and politically oriented Super Bowl ads -- notably those from an LGBT dating site, MoveOn and political figures.
Focus on the Family spent millions on this ad buy. In a democracy, you shouldn't get the biggest megaphone just because you can afford it.
5. I respect truth. Focus on the Family *is* anti-gay. Focus on the Family *is* anti-choice. They advance an irresponsible agenda that would deny kids access to life-saving age-appropriate sex education that can keeps them from delaying sexual activity and helps them make healthier choices if they do decide to engage in sexual contact. Furthermore, I don't buy this whole "hate the sin, love the sinner line." Focus on the Family is one of the loudest opponents of gay marriage, effectively denying gay and lesbian couples more than 1,000 important legal rights that heterosexual couples have. That is discrimination that denies monogamous, loving couples access to lead happier, healthier and more stable lives. That is an anti-gay act of hate.
One last thing: I'm sure plenty of anti-choice folks will want to respond to these thoughts. Please do, but I'd humbly ask that you spend at least as much time today working to reduce unintended pregnancies, promoting the adoption of children by loving families and fixing abusive foster care systems.
In other words, you may strongly disagree with my beliefs, but I hope we can all get behind the idea that every child born into this world should be loved and supported.
I have an idea. Be REALLY pro-choice, and allow women to make an INFORMED choice, one which might be choosing life. Even pro-choice bloggers are defending FOF's 1st Amendment rights, arguing this of critics of Tebow's Super Bowl ad: "They aren't actually "pro-choice" so much as they are pro-abortion."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020102067.html?hpid=topnews
Michelle, I also have a daughter and I will make sure she knows the choice she has BEFORE having sex. She has the choice to say "NO". She is in control of her body. If she chooses to say "YES" and she gets pregnant, she will have been taught personal responsibility. If she doesn't have that choice to say "NO", then that would be the ONLY time I think the choice of abortion should apply. We have strayed away from personal responsibility and wanting our government to make it okay to do so.
chris could not have said it any better!!!
I am SO pleased that Focus on the Family is doing this ad - I am looking forward to seeing it (don't usually watch the Superbowl - but I will this Sunday just because this ad is on). CHOOSE LIFE - YOUR MOM DID; ABORTION STOPS A BEATING HEART
"n terms of respect for free speech, how are all the "give it up NARAL" comments above any different from NARAL's efforts to highlight the problems with Focus on the Family's ad? It seems to me that many of the critics here are being pretty selective in their support of free speech."
Just how can they be highlighting the problems with the AD when IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN SHOWN YET????? that is so laughable. and as I stated above... if it weren't for all the pro-COICE trying to stop the ad I wouldn't even have known about it in the first place... and would nOT have even been watching it since I HATE football!!! so as I said before WTG
Well to the post by Chris, living a homosexual lifestyle is NOT a healthy choice and it leads to disease and most of the time early death. Just thought I'd throw that out there. It's a fact and you can look it up on any legit website and you'll see. Homosexuality is not natural and the very fact I stated proves it. GO TEBOWS!
Thanks for the millions of dollars in free publicity you've given to this ad, pro-abortionists! And thanks for soliciting comments on this board, hope you're enjoying them! Tweet THAT!
ROFLMBO Diane... WONDERFUL COMMENT!!!!
None of us have anything to fear but the truth. A life resides inside the womb, and it is her mother's job to protect and nuture that life, and a father's job to protect both the child and her mother. This IS the natural order of things. When it is messed with, entire societies have fallen-read history.
I am a forty-something woman who wants NARAL, NOW, and their ilk to end their bloody war against women and their children.
I am for freedom of speech. Why do you have a problem with that. If you really wanted "choice" you would respect Mrs. Tebow's. You actually want death to keep money in your pockets. Nobody profits if the baby lives. By the way abortion is Murder. I'm sure glad my mom chose life.
What are you (NARAL) so afraid of??....oh that's right, that people will see the TRUTH!!
CBS is completely hypocritcal in allowing this ad yet denying any ad that tries to show gay and lesbian Americans in a positive light.
I am struck by how many of you anti-abortion commenters love to appropriate the word "choice" for your anti-choice agenda. Anyone who believes that abortion should be illegal - and thus that women should be DENIED choice - should stop using the word choice right now. You don't want any woman to be able to choose anything except to carry a pregnancy to term - even if that woman's life in in danger. That is what is wrong with this ad. It's not about free speech. It's not about Tebow's mom's "choice." It's about the dangerous message that women should ignore health warnings and instead should carry any pregnancy to term because goddess forbid you abort a future male football player.
I will be focusing on MY family, and will refuse to watch the Super Bowl altogether since it is nothing but a hyper commercial celebration of machismo - and besides, football is boring :)
Clearly, "pro-choice" means "pro-abortion." Thanks for finally admitting it! I'm so glad Tebow's mom chose life!
P.S. I love the captcha I got when I posted this message: it says "amoral as". I say... NARAL has no morals. How fitting.
I just don't understand why choosing life is not considered a choice by you people. I am grateful that you cannot seem to understand that the more you stand against this ad, the more you show yourselves to be "pro-abortion" and NOT "pro-choice."
While I personally consider myself to be pro-life, I do not be believe we can legislate a pro-life culture or agenda. We need to change the hearts of the men and women in this country. And that is happening every day. Thanks for the boost to the cause!!!
Thanks for highlighting this ad. As a result of your blog, I've really spread the word far and wide, so everyone will be cheering when the Teblow ad runs. Thanks for helping many more people to choose life, not murder of our babies!
Women deserve better than abortion. God bless the Tebows and others like them who chose LIFE!
I think the point is that Focus on the Family is not telling people they have a choice...it's deceptive advertising. Happy Tim's mom chose to have him. Happy I chose to have him. Happier I had the choice. So I'll be focusing on safeguarding freedom of choice over reproductive decisions that impact me and my entire family. Focus on your own family and leave mind alone.
I think the point is that Focus on the Family is not telling people they have a choice...it's deceptive advertising. Happy Tim's mom chose to have him. Happy my mother had me. Happy I chose to have my son. Happier I had the choice...and I will work to make sure that he and whatever FAMILY he chooses will have the freedom to choos when he is of age. So I'll be focusing on safeguarding freedom of choice over reproductive decisions that impact me and my entire family. Focus on your own family and leave mind alone.
I am pro-choice, provided that it is an educated choice that allows the materials for ALL options and resources to be considered by the pregnant woman without any outside pressure. This would include providing written referrals to adoption agencies, maternity homes, and all other resources that are available to assist a woman through a crisis pregnancy, a print-out of an ultrasound of her pregnancy, the risks of an abortion, and a few days to consider the material in the privacy of her own home. If the woman is still so hard-hearted as to demand an abortion, then she can have access to as safe an abortion as possible, in a facility that complies with all the emergency preparedness that is required for out-patient surgery centers, and proper follow-up to ensure minimization of any complications that can result from the abortion. When I had my crisis pregnancy, I was given little choice when I visited a Planned Parenthood clinic. I was told that this pregnancy would ruin my life and all would be better off if I ended it. I made a choice that was not offered by this clinic - that of Life for my Child. I made my choice and I chose LIFE. I do not want to restrict the rights of any other woman to make a similar choice, as long as it is an INFORMED CHOICE. The information distributed by Planned Parenthood is insufficient to constitute INFORMED CHOICE. I was not given any options to seek other choices, such as keeping the baby or offering him up for adoption. This baby is now a wonderful 25 year old providing fine service defending the rights of other to make choices.
What an absolute joy it is to see all these pro-life comments!! No one would suggest that a mother has the "choice" to kill her unwanted newborn - that would be murder, but 48 hours earlier, 7 days earlier, three months earlier, killing that same child is a "choice"?
Benjamin Franklin was his mother's 14th child. I wonder if she really wanted a 14th child - the Franklins never had much money. What would our country have been like if Mrs. Franklin had the legal option to abort Ben Franklin? What if her society told her that it would be best for her not to have another baby - or that big families were irresponsible?
An earlier pro-legalized abortion person commented that in countries where abortion is illegal, there have been "countless deaths." I mourn for any woman who died during an abortion, but do you mourn the countless deaths of babies who died thru abortion? The "count" is around 50,000,000 baby Americans who were denied what Thomas Jefferson said were inalienable rights: "the right to life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness." God bless the Tebow family!!
To give life to a child is a choice. Why do people feel so threatened by an ad with a mother sharing why she choose life for her child? Focus on the Family is acknowleging that people make choices and encouraging women to choose life for their child.
I am so thankful my parent had me and I had a chance to live.
I am not a football fan and rarely watch the Super Bowl, but you can bet that I will be watching this ad and giving it my support.
Instead of watching the ad, I'll be focusing on being a Christian who appreciates all of the gifts God has given us. I'll be thanking God that among the wonderful gifts He bestowed on us are free will and a conscience. I'll be thankful that my God is a loving God who gave us these gifts so that we all could make the choice that is best for us. Yes, you can be pro-choice and a Christian. God bless.
A woman's first choice is made when she decides whether or not to have sex. If she's old enough to have sex, she's then old enough to accept the risk that a pregnancy will result. To choose to have sex with the idea that if an "unwanted" pregnancy results then she can just abort the child is the height of irresponsibility.
Thank you Elizabeth!
Instead of watching the ad, I'll be focusing on the fact that I live in a country where, theoretically, women have equal rights. While I am, as a general rule, against abortion, I am even more against the government dictating the lives of women. I respect a woman's right to choose. Thank you NARAL for trusting women.
I think that NARAL should purchase a commercial showing a fully formed baby being ripped limb from limb or having scissors stabbed into it's head. Don't be afraid to show what you really stand for and let the whole world know it.
"I think the point is that Focus on the Family is not telling people they have a choice...it's deceptive advertising. Happy Tim's mom chose to have him."
Then by your logic each and every time your side of the issue opposes ultrasound so the potential mothers can see for themselves what they are hiring their glorified medical hitman, oh I mean abortion doctors, to do for them, then your side is engaging in false rhetoric of choice.
Choice to do what? Murder your own babies in your wombs because they are inconvenient to your perfect existence. Would you allow for anyone else to have a choice and not be legally sanctioned by the law, to murder, steal, rape, assault, or kidnap another human being?
Your argument of choice is deceptive argumentation.
"I am struck by how many of you anti-abortion commenters love to appropriate the word "choice" for your anti-choice agenda. Anyone who believes that abortion should be illegal - and thus that women should be DENIED choice - should stop using the word choice right now."
Then by your logic, if you believe murder, rape, robbery, assault and battery, child abuse, etc., etc., shold be illegal- thus folks who would otherwise do the should be DENIED choice, should sotp using the word choice right now.
Just because people have choices do not mean those choices should not be illegal. If choices infringe on the basic human rights of others, it should be illegal.
"You don't want any woman to be able to choose anything except to carry a pregnancy to term - even if that woman's life in in danger."
That's a lie, and you know it. Most pro-lifers are for that exception.
The problem is that even when pro-life bills are proposed, that would have exceptions for woman's life in danger and cases of rape and incest, your side of the issue OPPOSED such a bill. Your side wants rights to abortion with ZERO LIMITATIONS.
Even when it concerns rights of parents of those who want abortions and are minors.
"That is what is wrong with this ad. It's not about free speech. It's not about Tebow's mom's "choice." It's about the dangerous message that women should ignore health warnings and instead should carry any pregnancy to term because goddess forbid you abort a future male football player."
You are quite presumptous to speak for an ad you have not seen yet. And quite presumptous to speak for the pro-life movement.
"Focus on the Family spent millions on this ad buy. In a democracy, you shouldn't get the biggest megaphone just because you can afford it."
Bogus. Abortion industry makes billions of dollars. Those who support it should be able to come up with the money much more readily than FOTF.
I am so thankful that a wonderful organization like Focus on the Family is standing for what they believe in. If this ad was for anything liberal there would NEVER be any talk about it not being aired. Praise the Lord for being unashamed
Jennifer: it's been done. silentscream.org has such a video.
As to abortion and Christianity: the Christ hymn in Philippians chapter 2 speaks of Christ taking on human nature. It does not speak of any time when God the Son gave up the [rights of] divine nature and then was just flesh. Christ's humanity in utero is presupposed, as it is in Luke. It's fitting, also, that the first foe Jesus faces is Herod's slaughter of infants.
The second-century Christian document, the Didache, draws heavily from the Sermon on the Mount and emphatically says "do not murder a child in corruption, nor kill that which is born" (2:3). I apologize for the rigid translation there. In any case, the first command there refers to exposure of an already-born child, and the second refers to that which a woman produces -- it does not presume that the child is already born. Thus, abortion is contrary to the Christian tradition from the beginning.
One cannot support abortion and claim to have any meaningful believe in the Incarnation, nor any sense of continuity with early Christianity.
I am one of those that regrets my abortion. It was 28 years ago, that I made that horrible mistake. It has been a "choice" that I have regretted ever since. 28 years ago, they told me it was just "tissue" not a baby, of course I know better now. I have confessed this sin, (yes I am Catholic) and I pray for God's forgiveness everyday and cry all the time for the baby I murdered. I was never able to have any more children after that. I am an advocate of pro-life. The question, what I will be doing during the Super Bowl Ad...I will be watching the Tebow Ad and I will be praying that all abortion ends.
Gary, I know the video is out there. I am suggesting NARAL and Planned Parenthood air it during the Super Bowl to provide a counter point to the "hate-mongers" in the pro-life movement. They should tell people what they really stand for. Abortion on demand without apology.
NARAL wants to protect women's rights, but only if they are already born. Girls in the womb don't count?
Thank God for freedom of speech and the Tebow family! I'll be watching the ad with my two daughters and celebrating freedom and life!
Ha ha ha... You guys are such hypocrites. You want free speech when you can say what you want but when someone disagrees with you, you demand silence. NARAL, leave freedom of speech alone.
I will be proudly watching the FOF ad and thanking God that my daughter chose life and gave me a precious grandson. God bless the Tebow family and the women who thought they had no other choice but to choose abortion.
i will be watching the Focus on the Family ad...have long been a faithful supporter of this group. and will be cheering for the Tebow family. Praise God!!!!
Murder should never be legalized. The only problem is is it pays so well.
You know another person who is probably happy his single mother CHOSE to have him rather than abort him - Barack Obama.
For several weeks, pro-abortionists claim the Tebows made up the story. They claim that no doctor could possibly offer abortions in the Philippines since it's illegal. They claim that abortions are strictly forbidden in the case of the mother's life in danger, and jail time is strictly given to those doctors and others who disobey that. Well, several facts refute these lies and slanders. Abortion is indeed under the law since it was made illegal allowed in the case of mother's life in danger. It is also commonplace to be practiced for birth control, thus illegal, and 20 percent of those are done by doctors. A small percentage yes, but given hundreds of thousands are done each year illegal, that shows how much the claim no doctor would do abortions much less recommend them is a flat out joke.
See for yourself this proof that shows the dishonesty of NOW, NARAL, RH Reality Check, etc. in slandering a family that strived every day of their lives to serve other people's needs:
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/abortion/doc/philippines.doc
You go Punisher, NOW, NARAL, & RH Reality Check, etc. are shaking in their boot............they hate us pro-life people. God Bless you Punisher, becuase you know it's a baby.
You aren't really pro choice if there is only one acceptable choice. Why don't you just come out of the closet and say pro abortion and drop the euphemism?
Oh and Chris you said CBS should air the other viewpoint. The ad is not CBS' viewpoint. If NARAL wants to spend 2.5 million on the ad then they should do so.
NARAL would have chosen to abort a Heismann-winning quarterback.
NARAL would have chosen to abort Mozart.
NARAL would have chosen to abort...
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cburley
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chickgonebad
Judy,
Funny part is that we are fighting for the rights of all the members of NARAL, NOW, etc., to be born in the first place!
Their arguments we are doing this to control women's bodies fall flat when we would EQUALY OPPOSE abortion if the mother wants to keep the baby but the father and/or her relatives and/or society pressure her to get the abortion, when her life is in no danger and especially when the baby results from consensual sex!
The ad obviously has aroused a great deal of interest in the abortion question. That is good news. Our country needs a national debate on the issue. The pro abortionists for 40 years or more have succeeded in suppressing debate. They have used the compliant media and entertainment industries and the financial clout to disseminate an exclusively pro-abortion view, and to convince people that abortion is a great blessing for women. Experience has taught otherwise. Millions of women regret their abortions, but the pro-aborts ignore this and still promote the lie that abortion is an essential woman's right. This ad helps people to find the truth. That is why it threatens the abortion industry so severely.
I love it how people say that they are pro choice by telling people that them being alive was a choice, further proving the fact that abortion is a choice of complete and utter murder. There is no dancing around this fact, abortion is murder.
I have always disliked sports and normally wouldn't be caught dead watching the Super Bowl. Now, thanks to this ad (which I would never have known about if the hard core pro-aborts hadn't made such a stink over it)I will be watching the Super Bowl this Sunday and looking for the ad.
The effort to stop the ad shows either a lack of knowledge and/or a lack of respect for the American constitutional rights of freedom of speech and expression. You hard core pro-aborts want to silence every voice that disagrees with you on abortion. Why? Are you afraid people will see truth in the pro-life side? If there is no truth in the pro-life side, then why are you afraid of their message? Won't people see how wrong it is and turn away from it if it's so wrong? You fear the truth.
There were a lot of shrill comments about what was in the ad when you hadn't even seen it yet. How can you claim to know what it was when you hadn't even seen it?
I will be watching the ad this weekend and focusing on how glad I am that freedom of speech reigned supreme so that we are free to see the ad. I will also be focusing on how you people do not fight to protect women who are forced to abort against their will, and you don't protest too strongly when they are hurt or killed by boyfriends who don't want to be fathers. Like it's been said before, only the "choice" to abort is acceptable to you. Any other choice and you end your support and trust of women very fast.
Anti - gay and anti - choice?
No.
Focus on the family is against genocide, raising their voices for people who are too young to defend themselves.
Anti - gay?
No. They are against the action of homosexuality, as defined in the Bible. Just as they are against lust, murder, theft, or adultery, as also defined in the Bible. They don't place homosexuality any higher or lower then any of the others, you just make it seem that way, "twist" it in your favor.
I pray God will touch your heart.
I dont' usually watch football, but am anxiously waiting to see this ad! I too am alive because of a mother who 'CHOSE" to stay pregnant when doctors recommended abortion. She was told she would not live to see my 5th Birthday. She CHOSE to carry the pregnancy to term & lived to see her grandchildren! I applaud Tebow's mom for making her decision! & I deplore an agency who claims to be about 'choice" but fights against free speech & against any choices outside of their agenda!
Wow, I feel sorry for the vast majority of commentators here. The indifference to women, the willful ignorance to science, the full-out lies, and miscellaneous other nonsense is so disheartening.
Focus on the Family isn't anti-gay? People need to actually read and think for themselves if they believe that.
Barack Obama's mother wasn't single when he was born...not to say married women don't choose abortion, because they do...martial status doesn't have anything to do with whether a pregnancy is wanted or not.
NARAL and pro-choice are against free speech? Um, no, that would be the opposite side. NARAL and pro-choice are against Focus on the Family and against unfair and biased application of written policies.
But I guess pro-life will see whatever they want to see in their efforts to demonize pro-choice, so they don't have to admit they themselves are the demons. They'll see whatever they want in their efforts to drum up fear of pro-choice so they themselves won't have to admit to their fear of giving others equal rights.
I love women who choose to carry their pregnancies to term because they feel it's the best choice for them and their family. I love women who abort their pregnancies because they feel it's the best choice for them and their family. I love that pro-life and pro-choice both have the ability to CHOOSE. I love choice.
Who ARE all these people??? And why don't they go back into their evangelical, hallelujah holes? This ad should air ONLY if a NARAL ad is given equal time. THAT'S free speech. Frankly, neither one should be on during the Super Bowl. This opens the doors to everyone and every cause.Mrs. Tebow made a CHOICE and went against the advice of her doctor. Fortunately it went well for her. Should we all ignore our doctor's advice?? As a mother and a grandmother I proudly support NARAL. I remember the days when abortions were clandestine,back alley operations. I also remember the clothes hangars and liquid concoctions that desperate women would use to stop ther pregnancies. Do you REALLY think abortions would stop if they were made illegal?
So say a prayer for yourselves. Leave my body alone!!
"Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division." -JESUS in Luke 12:51
will FOCUS on John 3:17 Jesus did not come into the world to condemn the world, but that through HIM the world might be saved.
NARAL can have an ad on CBS. Just cuff up the money to CBS.
Do pro-choicers believe that since laws will not stop the things that are made illegal from occurring, we should not have those laws? Then let's legalize all forms of murder, rape, incest, slavery, assault and battery, theft, etc., etc.
And we do leave the bodies of abortionists alone. Abortionists need to leave the bodies of real living human beings that are the unborn alone.
And most pro-lifers believe in exception for mother's life in danger. Just love how so-called pro-choicers have to lie there to make their points.
Funny thing is that alot of these same pro-choicers for the most part don't believe parents should have a choice when it comes to their child's education on issues like sex education and contraceptives. They don't believe in choices when it comes to our right right to bear arms, which unlike abortion, is actually sanctioned by the Constitution and not some made up right by the courts. They don't believe in other people's choices to which sides of issues they want to take either.
"Wow, I feel sorry for the vast majority of commentators here. The indifference to women, the willful ignorance to science, the full-out lies, and miscellaneous other nonsense is so disheartening."
Ignorance to science? Science does not support abortionist claims that the unborn is just a lump of tissue and non-human. Sorry!
And what flat out lies?
"But I guess pro-life will see whatever they want to see in their efforts to demonize pro-choice, so they don't have to admit they themselves are the demons. They'll see whatever they want in their efforts to drum up fear of pro-choice so they themselves won't have to admit to their fear of giving others equal rights."
And look who is lying? We are all for equal rights...beginning with the right to live.
The right to life is the mother of ALL RIGHTS.
If anything, your side have the fear of wanting to give others equal rights. IN this case, the unborn.
If it was about equal rights, how come abortionists while saying the unborn is the woman's body and no one, not even the father has a say, are the same ones who when the woman wants to keep the baby, demand the father be responsible for the unborn of which he has no rights to? Hypocrisy!
Right to abortion violates civil rights of others (the unborn) and creates special rights to murder, that no citizen otherwise have on any case.
"Indifference to women?"
Did you know that "Abortion kills more black Americans than the seven leading causes of death combined, according to data collected by the Centers for Disease Control?" http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/55956
"Willful ignorance of science?"
Have you ever seen an ultrasound? Google fetal development at 8 weeks and look at the baby comeplete with arms, legs, eyes, etc. Why do you think it is okay to cut that baby up and suck it out thruough a tube?
"This ad should air ONLY if a NARAL ad is given equal time"
BUY IT! Show Americans, who support this ad 2 to 1, what you do to 1 million babies a year(in the U.S. alone)and keep telling yourself that you are doing the right thing. That you are taking the high road.
It is a CHILD not a choice.
I will be focusing on those who choose to abort the life within them. They truely need my prayers. I know the pain they will feel and the guilt they will have to deal with. I also know there is a God bigger than all the pain and all the guilt that can heal their body and soul. And BEST of all he forgives them. I thank the Lord everyday that He forgave me and allowed me to have 3 of the most wonderful children in the world. And most of all, 2 beautiful grandchildren. My children ARE truely miracles from God. And as I write this I cry for the children whose parents give them up before birth, because they don't know what they have done. Jesus ask God to forgive us "because we knew not what we had done", so I know he will forgive them, they just have to ask, believe, and accept His love. Please join me in praying for the lost souls who don't realize what they have done. And Praise God for those children who are now with Him and in His care forever. GOD BE GLORIFIED!!!! God Bless You All for being brave enough to speak up!!! I am Thankful For You!!!
Interesting blog - sure not what the NARAL folks had in mind. I appreciate that many of the Pro-abortion folks have made civil comments. It is important to remember as Martin Luther King said (I am paraphrasing) " Just as darkness can never drive out darkness, only light can, hate will never drive out hate or evil, only love" At the end this is about love and life vs. death. The ultimate end of the "Pro-choice" argument is the mother's right to kill her baby. For those interested in a chilling defense of this viewpoint, see Soran Reader's article "Abortion, Killing, and Maternal Authority" in the Jan-March issue of Hypatia. She argues that even if (when) medical technology exists to allow for the transfer of a fetus to a willing adoptive mother, thus negating the "it’s my body" argument, that the mother has the right to kill her baby. Chilling in deed. I will pray for God to soften these hearts of stone.
NEW POLL RESULT: Exactly 100% of the millions of tomorrow's Super Bowl audience had mothers who CHOSE not to abort them. Pollsters are baffled...
I totally agree with the comment on the 1st Amendment on Free Speech ... yo, IF we are supposed to support other people's choices {like Live & Let Live} then Why can't we support everyone's choice to let their babies live and grow up & have a chance at a decent life even when there are risk and inconveniences to our personal pleasure and ideals. Why should certain people be ostracized and held in contempt for choosing to sacrifice having an easy life for their child to have life? With what do we justify ourselves when a greater number of babies are killed every day (on average) in the USA by our own hands than those who died from the terrorist attack on Sept 11th, 2001? IF just having a choice is not enough, and censorship of those who disagree is desired, then what will the end be - another step closer to a dictatorship where the death of any one who is not valuable to society as defined by a select few is promoted ... then how will we differ from Hilter, Stalin, Mao, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur ??? IF we do not value and defend every human life, then we do not value ANY life at all, eh?
I totally agree with the comment on the 1st Amendment on Free Speech ... Are you not glad your parents chose to let you live and grow up, eh?
yo, IF we are supposed to support other people's choices {like Live & Let Live} then Why can't we support everyone's choice to let their babies live and grow up & have a chance at a decent life even when there are risk and inconveniences to our personal pleasure and ideals. Why should certain people be ostracized and held in contempt for choosing to sacrifice having an easy life for their child to have life? With what do we justify ourselves when a greater number of babies are killed every day (on average) in the USA by our own hands than those who died from the terrorist attack on Sept 11th, 2001? IF just having a choice is not enough, and censorship of those who disagree is desired, then what will the end be - another step closer to a dictatorship where the death of any one who is not valuable to society as defined by a select few is promoted ... then how will we differ from Hilter, Stalin, Mao, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur ??? IF we do not value and defend every human life, then we do not value ANY life at all, eh?
Mrs Tebow made a Pro-Choice of keeping her baby.
NARAL is out for the blood money. They don't give a D--- about choice. Call yourself what you are, Pro-Abortion.
Glad to see so much support for death! Was this what NARAL expected when they set up this blog? I have never watched a Super Bowl game before, but I will this year! Hope all those who support death are squirming. You are losing. Thanks be to God.
For all of those who say the God and the Bible is against abortion, could you tell me a verse in which it says people are not allowed to have an abortion. Because I have been looking for it.
Commandment not to murder:
Exodus 20:13 (New International Version)
13 "You shall not murder.
Passages that state those in the womb are human beings:
Genesis 25:24 (New International Version)
24 When the time came for her to give birth, there were RWIN BOYS in her womb.
Psalm 22:10 (New International Version)
10 From birth I was cast upon you;
from my mother's womb you have been my God.
Psalm 58:3 (New International Version)
3 Even from birth the wicked go astray;
from the womb they are wayward and speak lies.
Psalm 139:13 (New International Version)
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
Ecclesiastes 5:15 (New International Version)
15 Naked a man comes from his mother's womb,
and as he comes, so he departs.
He takes nothing from his labor
that he can carry in his hand.
Passage that outrights outlaw causing death of the unborn, even by accident, where if the birth results in death or injury, then eye for eye, tooth for tooth, etc.
Exodus 21:22-25 (New International Version)
22 "If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely [a] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. 23 But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise
Punisher-
First off that is a dark name.
Secondly, you say "thou shall not murder". Murder is the killing of another human being. I know that we as humans have not defined when a baby is technically human or alive. It has been a debate between the moment of conception, and the actual birthing of the child. When does the bible say when they are technically alive?
Also, do you believe that if a women commits abortion, that they will go to hell?
"Secondly, you say "thou shall not murder". Murder is the killing of another human being. I know that we as humans have not defined when a baby is technically human or alive. It has been a debate between the moment of conception, and the actual birthing of the child. When does the bible say when they are technically alive?"
The Bibe stated that there were TWIN BOYS in the womb of the wife of Isaac.
The Bible stated we are sinners even in the womb.
"Also, do you believe that if a women commits abortion, that they will go to hell?"
No.
No one sin, not even murder, gets us to hell than the next. All sins seperate us from God, apart from faith in Christ.
Well "TWIN BOYS" does not have to mean that they are alive, that simply means they are boys. Also, "The Bible stated we are sinners even in the womb." This does not have to mean we are alive, I think that this verse is stating that we are all sinners, and that we are not, and cannot be sin-less. I don't think that this has any reference to when we are technically alive.
Well I am christian, and I believe that Christ is my Lord and Savior, but I am pro-choice in the sense that I believe women should have the choice to have or not have an abortion. I always enjoy discussing this topic with others, and I apologize if I came off rude. I really enjoyed hearing what you had to say on this topic, and what your textual interpretations are.
God Bless
P.S. since this is kinda about the Super Bowl GO SAINTS!
Chris, Have you looked at pictures of fetal development? A baby has a beating heart. Doesn't that mean it is alive? Babies born at 24 weeks can survivie outside their mother's womb and yet abortion is legal thru all 9 months. How do you feel about partial birth abortion? Do you know what that procedure involves?
"Well "TWIN BOYS" does not have to mean that they are alive, that simply means they are boys.
How are then boys when they are not even humans yet in your logic? And yes, they were alive. They were moving in the womb. How can they move as boys when they don't exist as humans yet?
If they were not humans yet, they would not have a gender would they?
And besides the Bible refute your claims they were not yet alive:
Genesis 25
22 The BABIES jostled each other WITHIN her, and she said, "Why is this happening to me?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.
"Also, "The Bible stated we are sinners even" in the womb." This does not have to mean we are alive, I think that this verse is stating that we are all sinners, and that we are not, and cannot be sin-less. I don't think that this has any reference to when we are technically alive."
It says those folks were sinning from the womb speaking lies.
It specifially mentioned in the womb. And specifically stated when they spoke lies- from the womb.
Jennifer-
I see what you are saying about abortion in the third trimester. And please don't get me wrong, I think that people should not get abortions, but I still believe it should be their choice. I think overall what should be happening is inserting more about sex into school's education. If we were to teach children about sex and not having it, I think the amount of abortions would substantially drop. Not only about not having it but about safe sex to prevent pregnancies all together. Also, people in general need to change. When we see unmarried women being pregnant we are incredibly judgmental, instead of being welcoming and helpful. This may lead to abortion, which still doesn't justify it. So, maybe next time when someone gets an abortion, help them through their trauma, don't degrade them and judge them.
Punisher-
I am not saying that they are not humans I am saying they are not alive. If someone dies they still have a gender, but they are not alive.
Next, I will go at the whole movement inside the womb idea, with a scientific stance. Viruses, like the cold or flu, are not alive. Yet they still move around inside your body. How would you explain that?
Chris, how do you define being alive? A baby has a beating heart. It can move it's body, suck its thumb, kick, etc.
"I am not saying that they are not humans I am saying they are not alive. If someone dies they still have a gender, but they are not alive."
They still have a gender, but that gender comes from them being alive in the first place. Your own argument is self-defeating.
How can they not be alive in the womb when they are humans? How can babies fighting each other in the womb as twins not be alive?
Science does not support you there.
"Next, I will go at the whole movement inside the womb idea, with a scientific stance. Viruses, like the cold or flu, are not alive. Yet they still move around inside your body. How would you explain that?"
Viruses are not babies of humans. Next.
The Bible specifically said the twins were babies, they were fighting each other, they were seen by God as alive and humans, of which the elder shall serve the younger.
This passage shows that the unborn baby John the Baptist was human and alive, given that the unborn LEAPT FOR JOY. How can a non-living thing have JOY?
Luke 1
39At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, 40where she entered Zechariah's home and greeted Elizabeth. 41When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42In a loud voice she exclaimed: "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! 43But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? 44As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. 45Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!"
FoF is not against abortion, they are against abortion being safe. Abortion happened before Roe, and will continue if it is overturned. Just in another way. What then? (Hint: It is not Christian to suggest that women deserve what happens.)
I will be focusing on the fact that I can sleep at night because I never ordered the death of anyone. I will focus on the fact that I made sure of the consequences of my actions before I acted. I will focus on the fact that I will not be (like so many desperate women) regretful of a horrible decision. I will focus on the fact that I understand that life is life and everyone has a chance at his or hers, whether born or unborn and that it is NOT my "choice" if someone lives or dies. I will focus on the fact that I am not naive in that I didn't allow someone to see dollar signs over my baby thriving. I will focus on how I did right by me and was not persuaded to kill my child in the name of convenience. I will focus on how I am not selfish in allowing someone who doesn't care about me or the life I carried inside of me (with whom I bonded immediately and is now a beautiful little baby girl)to decide "what's best" and take my daughter's life. I will focus on the 3 month ultrasound I had of my little angel where I saw her heart beat so powerfully as she moved in my womb. I will (unfortunately) focus on how nonsensically people can accept something just because the rest of society says it's okay. I will focus on the people who don't see how abortion is murder. Whether a child is unborn or 2 years old, you cannot decide if he or she should live. I will focus on praying (that's right praying) for the pro-choice advocates. Let them understand the immoral act of abortion. I will also focus on the countless women to whom I have spoken who mourn the loss of their sweet children and regret the horible decision they made in aborting them. I will focus on how it breaks my heart to know that this is accepted as, to me, it is the equivalent to the death of Conner Peterson and the sad circumstances of the children of Andrea Yates and Susan Smith.
As far as fetuses being alive, "science" recognizes 7 characteristics of life which are all had by an unborn fetus. Without 1 of these 7, an organism is not alive and with having all of them, it is considered alive. They are: environmental adaptation, cells and organization, metabolism,homeostasis, growth and development, ability to reproduce, and evolution. All are had by a human fetus. Even if you are a scientist, you cannot say that an unborn fetus is not alive.
I am so excited about this story of love! Most women regret having an abortion & every year, about the time of that child's would-be bday, that woman is very depressed. It's not pro-choice, it's pro-death, pro-being burnt alive, pro-being mutilated one piece @ a time... feeling everything. GO FOCUS ON THE FAMILY! THANK YOU GOD FOR MY LIFE! AND THANK YOU FOR MY CHILDREN!
Life is a choice and I am so glad it was the one I made. My son is the joy of my life, even though my pregnancy was not planned. I am thankful for my pro-Life friends and, while I disagree with abortion, I do not have an issue with those who favor it speaking out. Why do so many "Pro-Choice" people believe they are the enlightened ones and put down those of us who believe differently. It is all a matter of choice and I do not feel any less a modern woman for having chosen to give birth.
Our generation saw this prophesy fulfilled... but it is time for attitudes to change !!!
Lu:23:29: For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
The media had brought this verse to pass years ago and desperately want to keep it this way... Not in this country !!! Not any more !!! It's not about laws... It's about attitudes!
God supports the Tebow ad, He is both Pro-choice AND Pro-Life...
De:30:19: I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed (children) may live
Wow! You guys look a little silly for protesting that ad! Celebrate family, Celebrate LIFE!
My sister and i started a teen pregnancy center, LIFE CHOICE teen pregancy center. The reason? we had so many friends that had 'chosen" abortion because they felt they had no other choice. Planned Parenthood etc told them they'd forget about it, it was no big deal, and those women are now in support groups, therapy or horribly depressed. They were told lies. They were told it was simple and better for them and their baby was an inconvenience. We want these girls to have an informed choice. To see that baby on the ultrasound to give classes on what to do, to be that support, to let them know about adoption. Trust me, they know about abortion.. well they know what the liberal media and PP want them to know, not that it's a proceedure that kills the life growing inside them, not that it will scar them emotionally for the rest of their lives but that it's an option. When we tell these girls what an abortion actually is, over 80% choose life. THAT is a choice... even teenagers know killing is wrong. Why don't these "pro-choicers"?? I watched the ad tonight and loved it even wish it was more strong but it may get some women thinking... do I really want to murder a baby because my bad choices make this an inconvenience or do I want to choose to bless someone who desperatly wants a baby with my child? Think about it.. are you really pro CHOICE or pro- your own agenda for murder?
Laura, Unlike you and your sister, I have never had the initiative to start a teen pregnancy center, but I have worked with people who have, and have helped several women in crisis pregnancies. I can vouch for the truth of every word you write, God bless you. Abortion creates the illusion of a remedy, only to lead to greater trauma later on. It is long past time that our society acknowledged that reality. Women deserve better than abortion.
Very very very sad!
This organization supports the death of little tiny helpless babies! SHAME ON YOU FOR getting on Tim Tebow! YOu guys fight for the rights of others! What about his right to Freedom of Speech? Just because you guys do not agree do not try to shut down someone who is standing for what he believes in! Specially someone as young as he is! You see Focus on the Famliy is about hate of gays and women..but it is completley the opposite! Their views are God's views based on the Bible. If you don't like what they say and stand for talk to God! Focus on the Family is getting out what he stands for and if you think that God is pro-choice your out of your mind! How would a loving God stand for the murder of a helpless tiny baby.
I just can't believe CBS allowed this to air!! LOL, they have the 'rep' of being 'friends' of the mindless liberals =) I love it when liberals get their 'we'll fight this all the way to Captial Hill' boots on, it's very good entertainment! And for all u man-haters that ain't gonna let no man tell u wat to do or think...change ur own oil and service ur own damn cars...that'll....yea...show us...yea....... LOL!!
LOOK!!!! There's a sperm whale that didn't have the brains God gave a rock and stay in the DEEP part of the Ocean, washed up on the beach!! Hurry little mindless followers, run to it's aid!!!! LMAO!! Let's protest the ocean!!! Focus on going to the lake instead....the ocean will pay!!!!!
I just love it when people who claim to be 'pro-choice' show that there is only one choice a woman can make that they support, and that is abortion.
Far too many women who DON'T want to abort are being forced in that direction by husbands, boyfriends and parents and those who ought to be advocating for these women don't care.
They are far more concerned with an abortion clinic's bottom line than with a woman's freedom.
This is my favorite response to the ridiculous Tim Tebow ad: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/05a75a5837/every-sperm-could-be-tim-tebow
American would be a horrible place if every sperm grew up to be an overpaid football player.
America would be a horrible place if everyone adopts the abortionist mindset of no law should tell a person what to do with his or her body. That means mothers will do drugs while pregnant. Men will rape, loot, steal, assault, kidnap, etc. Parents will abuse and kill their kids. And so on and so on.
That's after all doing what they want with their own bodies.
No matter how it infringes on bodies of others.
That puts it well, Punisher. Abortion on Demand is a failed experiment. We cannot use the taking of innocent human life to solve personal or social problems without creating far worse personal and social problems.
That commercial was GENIUS!!! It made the "pro-abortion"/"pro-choice" people look ridiculous because it was so soft and gentle. the pro-choice/abortion people were exposed for who they really are and Americans do not like it.
GOD BLESS THE TEBOW FAMILY FOR STANDING UP FOR THE TRUTH.
WOMEN DESERVE BETTER THAN ABORTION
Pro-choicers love to argue women should be able to do what they want with their own bodies without others objecting to those choices.
Do they really believe their own logic there?
How many of them believe all of us should be allow to drive so utterly drunk?
How many of them believe all of us should be allow to take hardcore drugs while pregnant?
How many of them believe all of us should be allow to steal something from another?
How many of them believe all of us should be allow to choke someone to death, molest another, or whatever we do with our own bodies that infringe on the right to life or liberty of another human being?
All those choices, after all, do involve us doing something with our OWN BODIES, be it our hands or whatever other parts of OUR BODIES required to carry out our heinous acts.
My point?
Not all choices are created equal, and just because those are indeed CHOICES of what people do with their OWN BODIES do not mean we have to support those choices LEGALLY.
I just wanted to say that this is all a bunch of bull. Just because an embryo could not survive on its own without the mother's body, it is still a life. It still has a soul. The abortion of that unborn child is murder no matter how you look at it. There is no difference in a woman who muders her child after it is born, and a woman who aborts her baby. Just because the unborn child does not have "rights" does not mean that a woman should have the "right" to end that innocent life.