Planned Parenthood’s Response to Tebow Super Bowl Ad

The end of the ad has a line along the lines of “We are working towards a time when the decisions of all women will be respected…...
Uh - except for the decisions of those who are aborted and denied that right.

Notice that the word “abortion” is never mentioned.

Oh one hand, I’m amused by the backlash on the Left against the as-yet-unseen Tebow advertisement. On the other, I think Planned Parenthood fully understands the ability of high-profile persons to shape culture. Tebow is a widely admired figure, and when that is combined with his family’s compelling story, it can have an enormous impact. The Tebow ad has already generated significant conversation, and it probably has the potential to save some lives.

So I guess they’re saying they like the Tebow ad, and want to make sure everyone watches it as an example of how empowered women can make good choices about the children they are entrusted with?

Some advertising professionals stayed up late trying to find a response to a basically unassailable pro-life advertisement.  And this was the best they could come up with.

Wow. I wonder if this will be perceived as stereotypical of black men - putting the choice on the woman to have an abortion and taking no responsibility. But I am sure that is not what they intended.

Boy oh boy…this message really takes the starch out of Baby Murder…Indaba is next no doubt.
Intercessor

The clever work of the devil strikes again!

I thought it was pitiful…if that’s the best PP can do, then the Pro-Life organizations ought to have a hey-day this year.

In a related blog is a link to a video on how the media is just outright lying about the Pro-Life March on Washington.  Also pitiful…and I hope it makes folks really understand how insidious the media has become.

There’s a lot of talking leading up to the Superbowl about an ad focused on sports and family.

Ummm—I think the source of that talk has has been NOW, Planned Parenthood, and other pro-abortion organizations.

  The ad features a great football player, Tim Tebow, and his loving mother discussing a difficult medical decision she made for her family.

I’m not sure Mrs. Tebow would agree that her decision was difficult.  But then, you would have to have a strong Christian worldview to understand that being told that she should abort her child because of the likelihood he would have birth defects did not really present her with a viable option.

I respect and honor Mrs. Tebow’s decision.

Unless, of course, she chooses to tell America about it in an ad to be broadcast during the Superbowl.  Oh, sorry, that’s Planned Parenthood, the organization you are representing. 

  I want my daughter to live in a world where everyone’s decisions are respected [emphasis in original].

Everyone’s decisions?  Really?  Hitler’s decisions?  Stalin’s decisions?  The decisions of the current government leaders in China?  What about the decisions of some mothers to leave their newborn infants in the trash, or in a toilet?

  My Mom showed me that women are strong and wise.  She taught me that only women can make the best decisions about their health and their future. 

Whereas men, infants, and children . . . [sigh] oh, never mind.

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We’re working toward the day where every woman will be valued.

An interesting statement.  What is omitted speaks volumes.  The pro-life position would be, we are working toward the day where every person will be valued.  We assert that each human being, from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death, has more value than all the material things in the universe.  One could steal all of the art treasures from the Louvre museum, and the value of what was stolen would not equal the value of one fetus or embryo about to have his life snuffed out. 

This is not really an argument about the right of people to make choices.  It is an argument about whether we are going to recognize the irreducible humanity of all persons.

Considering that Planned Parenthood goes after African-American women and murder African-American babies more than any other group, this “public service announcement” is so messed up.

#9 TXThurifer - You’re right on. Check out this article from Life News:

http://www.lifenews.com/state4781.html

In 2008, 41.8 percent of abortions were performed on African-American women in Pennsylvania, who comprise just 10 percent of the population in that state.

Do not forget Margaret Sanger’s famous quote about eliminating “undesirable populations”. If nothing else, Planned Parenthood seems loyal to their founding vision.

The irony here is bottomless.  Two black guys making an ad for an organization that kills more African-Americans than any other.  Two men talking about a “women’s issue.” (Imagine an ad in which two guys took the other side!)  And, last but by no means least, the emphasis on a women’s “choices”—when, as has been pointed out at least ever since Evangelium Vitae, the net effect of Planned Parenthood’s agenda is to enslave, not empower, women.
Where is Planned Parenthood when women are pressured—usually by men—into getting abortions they don’t want?  Where is Planned Parenthood when an underage girl comes in for an abortion to cover up the evidence of statutory rape?  Where is Planned Parenthood on our college campuses, where pregnancy rates among female students have been measured as high as 20% but somehow almost none of the students have children?
They’re not speaking up for “choice,” that’s for sure.

So sad to see this.  50,000,000 murders.  Innocent, every one and some - many? -  late term.  Who is this ad leaving out?

Abortion is not health care if the mother’s life is not in danger from carrying a baby to term.

This is one of the strangest statements I have ever heard. It took me a while to figure out exactly what they were getting at. At first, I foolishly thought they liked - or at least respected - the Tebow ad. This is typical “pro-choice” rhetoric that is actually anti-choice.

They muder English as well as babies.  The right to choose requires an object.  Gee, what are they afraid of?  Abortion is just a word after all.  They display their sheer cowardice and mendacity.

Weak. Faulty premise. Confusing.

One good thing: Money spent on this won’t be used to suck Not Yet Human Tissue (babies) into the Disposal

Good point. My husband always says money is fungible. He likes words like that.

It’s sad that the best spokespersons they could come up with were Sean James (what NFL team did he play for, I think one year with the Vikings. He would more accurately be described as a Ford model), and Al Joyner (who won gold in what…that extremely popular event the triplejump).

Really doesn’t seem like a lot of thought went into the script or that these gentlemen did any kind of research for themselves. Pre-born humans are killed, what about their decisions that they never even had a chance to have?

But even if you forget their decisions, how can they be valued yet killed?

Is this another stereotype of the black male being a moron?

Here is the actual Focus on the Family ad:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1960734_1960750_1960742,00.html

Seems to me, Focus on the Family got way more from all the buzz than they did from the ad itself.  Cool strategy.