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Focus on the Family's Anti-Abortion Super Bowl Ad: Just Say No Thanks!

by Erin Matson, NOW Action Vice President

Attention activists: Get thee to the Women's Media Center's Not Under the Bus site immediately to stop Focus on the Family's anti-abortion rights Super Bowl ad.

Make no mistake about this ad: it's offensive to women. Yes, it features Heisman trophy winner Tim Tebow and his mother, who had been advised to have an abortion after a serious illness. Standing alone, it sends the message that all women who give birth are heroes; it sends a message that abortion is always a mistake; and it is insulting to the one in three women in this country who have abortions.

After intense pressure led by the Women's Media Center and supported by women's advocacy allies including the National Organization for Women, CBS abruptly reversed its long-standing policy against accepting socially controversial advertisements and said they would accept ads so long as they were "responsibly produced." (What does that mean? Who decides? Are women's issues responsible? Is calling out racism responsible? Is advocating equal marriage responsible?)

This is revolting. Focus on the Family, which believes it can counsel lesbians and gays out of homosexuality and would like to end legal abortion, gets accommodation from CBS after that same network previously denied ads from the United Church of Christ depicting a welcome environment for same sex couples.

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Comment from: life is a choice too [Member] Email
This woman chose life. Why would you be against that? She had the right to make her own personal choice, a choice which opposed the advice of doctors. Isn't that a success story, that a woman had the right to choose? By your outcry, you send the message that abortion is the only choice you support. Please, don't do this, it hurts the cause.
01/26/10 @ 19:19
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Comment from: stacey [Member] Email · http://jackson.nowms.org
It's great that Tim's mom had the ability to CHOOSE whether or not to continue a pregnancy that may have resulted in a child who had severe disabilities. It's nice that his family had the means to know that they would be able to care for him if that happened to be the case. Many women don't have the means to do that, and no one should ever be forced to continue a pregnancy, that's what choice is all about.

Personal decisions are personal, and do not belong in a television commercial. Focus on the Family is an anti-choice organization and to assume that this commercial, which is costing a couple million dollars to air, is not anti-choice and aimed at making women feel bad if they choose to terminate a pregnancy is ludicrous.
01/26/10 @ 19:24
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Comment from: baytown96 [Member] Email
Our freedom of speech is a precious right to be guarded even when others express opinions with which we disagree. That's the down side of freedom of speech.
01/26/10 @ 19:27
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Comment from: cmchristian53 [Member] Email
Rather than getting your panties in wad why doesn't the "National Organization of I Don't Know What Kind of Women" run an ad touting all the wonderful benefits that abortion has to offer?
01/26/10 @ 20:56
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Comment from: chooselife [Member] Email
I am sure that you are quite pleased with yourself for securing free airtime from ABC Evening News to disseminate your opposition to Ted Tebow’s upcoming Super Bowl ad promoting life. However, judging from the prevailing view of the comments posted at the network’s website, your strategy backfired in spectacular fashion. If anything is “offensive,” “revolting,” or “insulting,” it is not Focus on the Family’s message. It is Ms. Matson’s on-air comments, which border on the ridiculous.
01/26/10 @ 21:24
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Comment from: mlottman [Member] Email
Have you people taken leave of your senses entirely? I think it is an in-
spirational story how Pam Tebow re-
jected advice to have an abortion and
instead gave birth to a fine young man
who is, and will be, much, much more
than a football player. While sometimes
necessary, abortion after all is not a
positive good; it almost always leaves a
residue of anguish and regret. Having an
abortion is not the essence of being a
woman, although some people seem to
think so. Organizations like NOW have
always been at pains to say you are not
pro-abortion, you are pro-choice. So
Pam Tebow made her choice, and it is
one we all should celebrate. An ad like
this is no more offensive or "political"
(heaven forbid) than one telling kids to
stay in school. The choice for abortion
must and will exist, but its exercise is
always a tragedy. If you don't think so,
you have been working at this too long.
01/26/10 @ 21:32
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Comment from: msvalg [Member]
I am more than a supporter of women's rights on paper or at the water cooler, having served honorably in the US Army as well as being an avid fan of the NFL, I am upalled that NOW would raise such protest over the message from a mother who found the courage and strength to choose life for her son at the risk of her own. We need many more strong courageous, independent women like her to share their message with the world!
01/26/10 @ 23:56
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Comment from: lovinlifelady [Member] Email
If the women of NOW are so confident then why are you so scared for an inspirational story about how one courageous woman "chose" to support life? If you are really pro-choice then why do you seem so pro-abortion? NOW must be scared that a woman will choose to save a life by seeing an example of how what lives inside us is a human life and not anything less, why is that so scary for NOW? If you are reading this and a member of NOW then your mom chose to have you? Aren't you glad for that decision and that your mom chose to have you? If you have such a strong case for "pro-choice" then why are you scared to allow someone to voice their opinion to choose life? We must allow freedom of speech and see the beauty of opinions being voiced. If no freedom of speech you would not even be allowed to have this website. Thank you to all our moms who chose to have us!
01/26/10 @ 23:56
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Comment from: desertmama [Member] Email
I'm a young woman and I want you to know that NOW does NOT represent me. If you truly want to represent women, you would support the fact that Mrs. Tebow took control over her own body and chose to have her baby. It is time for you to move past the idea that the only way to be a progressive feminist is to support abortion. Articles and views such as this are the exact reason why young, educated, professional women such as myself and my friends find NOW revolting.
01/26/10 @ 23:57
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Comment from: getoverit [Member]
Society takes for granted the freedoms that feminism has fought for. However, NOW disregards freedom of speech--a freedom that Tebow and his mother are entitled to employ--OMG. NOW's and FOF's messages, and the ways the organizations convey their messages, are worn out and push people away. Sure, I'd prefer Tebow choose a forum other than Focus on the Family to advocate his views. However, even FOF has changed over the decades, and the organization embraces some feminist priciples. Can NOW change? Did NOW miss the bus? No--NOW stumbled off the bus, and into the path of a Smart Car. NOW has become irrelevent. Support freedom of speech! Choose diversity! NOW: get real, get relevent, get over it.
01/27/10 @ 02:46
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Comment from: stephdoug123 [Member] Email
Go to CBS website and give them feedback directly. At the bottom of their website is a small link to "user feedback". Click on this and complete the form to let them know you won't be watching CBS on superbowl or in the future. Below is a copy of my note:

Dear CBS,
CBS has the right to air the Tim Tebow super bowl add. However, I also have the right to no longer watch CBS shows -including the super bowl. I fully intend to advise CBS advertisers of my intentions and to join organizations who share similar beliefs. If Tim Tebow and his mother can evangelize about abortion on CBS - I will evangelize to gain support for a boycott of the super bowl and CBS.My demographic: Female, age 49 - income $150k+.
01/27/10 @ 07:24
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Comment from: stacie [Member] Email
Yet another "women's rights" organization that doesn't speak for me, a 29-year old female, working professional. Who ARE you speaking for, anyhow? It is disgusting that an organization claiming to promote "equality" could be critical of one woman's decision. I certainly appreciate the feminist movement of the past - the one who fought for my voting rights and ability to work - but you have lost me NOW. I agree with Getoverit that you need to change your mission - get relevant if you want to continue being an organization. Because you will have a difficult time recruiting members if this is the kind of ridiculous behavior you exhibit and encourage.
01/27/10 @ 10:17
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Comment from: Lisa Bennett, NOW Communications Director [Member] Email
NOW is not criticizing Ms. Tebow's choice -- she was free to make the decision that was right for her, and that's what we want for all women, to be able to make reproductive decisions that make the most sense for them. Focus on the Family, the producers of the ad, do not want women to have that freedom. Clearly this ad is aimed at guilting women into making the same decision as Ms. Tebow. That's what we take issue with.

Also, television networks reject ads all the time -- this is not an infringement on free speech.
01/27/10 @ 12:09
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Comment from: arealfeminist [Member] Email
Why doesn't NOW protest tv ads that are way more prevalent than this ad, such as the Coors beer ads depicting women wearing nothing but an apron? Or any Victoria's Secret ad with their 'enhanced', emaciated skeletons? There are so many ads out there that are way more offensive and demeaning than the FOF ad. I can't let my kids watch football by themselves because of those kinds of ads. At least this one could open up a discussion of a very important topic. I think CBS should air it.
01/27/10 @ 12:36
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Comment from: squeakywheel [Member] Email
How would NOW feel if CBS rejected one of their ads?

Would NOW then be crying "censorship" & "freedom of speech"?

If so, then why the double standard?
01/27/10 @ 12:41
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Comment from: matildajr [Member] Email
Thanks GOD the majority of women in this country believe in a woman’s right to choose abortion. As pro-choice advocates – as women who care - we need to stop standing on the side lines and letting religious zealots decide for us how to live our lives.

This issue has been a major call to action for me. When I was younger I fought long and hard the religious crazies picketing outside woman’s clinics and thought; “these people are just the fringe. They will never reverse Roe vs. Wade. They will never impose their will on society as a whole.” It’s time to fight back!!!!! It’s time to stand united and fight for all the rights organizations like Focus on the Family have eroded through legislation, scare tactics, murder, and so on.

I’m off to write to CBS to ask they stop this abuse of women and not air the piece.

BTW - One person above commented how valuable a woman’s right to choose abortion is critical. And I agree. The advertisement is not about her choosing but making the “right” choice. The choice supported by the ad’s creators. WRONG!!!!! Through the hard work of our older sisters we have that choice; the choice organizations like Focus on the Family want to take away.
01/27/10 @ 14:37
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Comment from: forlifeandeternity [Member] Email
Dear matildajr: So, pro-choice advocates are the only women who care? Hmm. Those you call religious zealots, do not? Not all Christians are zealots, nor are all people that "picket" outside abortion clinics looney zealots. I am not asking this to be insulting or argumentative, but may I ask if you have paid for a women to receive prenatal care if she decides to not abort her baby? Have you helped any women with bills, groceries, etc as they struggle w/an unplanned pregnancy, but choose to not abort? I am not saying this for credit, but this is what I have done for five years, along w/others in a collective ministry that raises money, connects w/a team of resources and others who volunteer time to love, support and care for women who choose to accept the help that is offered. If a woman contacts me post-abortion, I have been there for them as well. Isn't this "caring"? It takes a lot of time to get involved in the lives of others and seek to meet their needs: financial, physical, emotional, etc...it's well worth it, but please don't assume that those who oppose the choice of abortion are all uncaring, crazy zealots...that's just not factual.
What I can't understand is the outrage over this commercial seems like you (a collective you, not just you personally) doubt the intelligence of women. Seriously, do you not think women are strong enough to view 30 seconds of a commercial that promotes a family that chose to not abort versus aborting? I think it's foolish to assume that this commercial will create guilt and anguish for women who choose to abort. If a woman feels certain and secure of her choice, a commercial that displays a woman who chose not to hurt isn't going to have that much of an impact. Are we so fragile that we can't handle viewing opposing viewpoints?
On one hand, NOW is angry b/c Focus on the Family is the sponsor, but then others are protesting because they fear the undo burden of guilt it may force upon the 1 out of 3 women who choose and/or chose abortion...it's really taking it over the top to call this commercial an "abuse" to women. Again, do we think women are so fragile that they can't handle a mother and son sharing the testimony of their family?
Our nation is saturated with rhetoric that promotes and supports the choice to abort, but rarely does the public have the chance to hear from women who choose to not abort....it's only fair to let those stories be revealed too...I promise, we're strong enough to handle both sides.
Also, did you know that there are women forced to abort? I consider this quite abusive. I have met countless women that were brought by family members, husbands and boyfriends that threaten the pregnant mom if she doesn't abort. One woman was told if she didn't abort her baby, the boyfriend would kick her and their other chidren out of the house. She decided not to, with the support of pregnancy counselors at the clinic that day and she was kicked out. A group of volunteers helped her find a new place, find work, pay some of her bills (during and after her pregnancy) and pay for her medical care. If that's not caring, I don't know what is.
01/27/10 @ 15:09
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Comment from: mbc [Member]
If you are really ProChoice as you claim, then you shouldn't be afraid to let women hear both sides of the issue. Or is it only ProChoice as long as the choice I make agrees with yours?

You've lost all perspective. Many women pushed hard to give women a choice. If someone chooses something that you don't belive that doesn't make that choice WRONG. They had a choice, and they chose LIFE. that makes them brave. That makes them strong. They didn't knuckle under to pressure and inconvenience. They made a choice that was likely difficult for them to follow through with, but they made the choice. Don't belittle them because you disagree with that choice. It wasn't YOUR choice, it was theirs.

You don't even know what will be said or how it will be said and you are trying to suppress it. That is un-American. What happened to Free Speech (even if it costs as much as a Super Bowl Commercial does)?

If you want to be sure both sides are heard, then run your own ad.

Boycotting CBS because they let the ProLife side be heard is childish. It's like you're saying no one can talk if they don't agree with you.
01/27/10 @ 15:17
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Comment from: forunbornwomentoo [Member] Email
What is wrong with you people? A woman, who was counseled by her doctor to have an abortion, gave birth to a son who became a success. A commercial depicts the value of his life and her decision, yet you oppose it. What is wrong with you people? Are you out of touch with everything decent and right in the world? Why should this not be celebrated? Have you been "taking action for women" to pointlessly murder their children since 1966? Would you have been happier if Miss Tebow had killed her son instead? Now that would make for a fine commercial! What is wrong with you people?
01/27/10 @ 16:18
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Comment from: davey [Member] Email
I have to agree with the majority of the posts in response to NOW's response to this ad. NOW, you are totally out of touch! Because of the medical issues involved in abortion decisions, I am pro choice. I do not believe abortion should be criminalized. But I would never in a million years object to someone telling their story of why they chose not to have an abortion; and how that decision worked for them. NOW, you look completely inhuman in objecting to this message. Also, the President of NOW's recent comment that a fetus is not a life is Orwellian. Of course it is. what the hell is it, if it is not a life?
01/27/10 @ 18:18
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Comment from: pltn [Member] Email
I will NEVER NEVER AGAIN give any money to this FASCIST organization. What has happened to this country when people think it's okay to try and force the suppression of someone elses rigtht to free speech simply because you don't agree with their stance. Maybe I'm an old fashion liberal, but I marched in the 60's to protect others rights to free speech, not so NOW can ensure their opinion is the only one protected and honored!!!!
I'm anti-abortion, but pro-choice - to clarify what that means - I don't ever want to see any life ended, but at the same time it's someone's personal choice and the Fed Govt shouldn't be involved in the issue at all, and I understand circumstances will dictact ones choice what ever it may be!
01/27/10 @ 18:45
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Comment from: pltn [Member] Email
To matildajr,

Your first line reads: "Thanks GOD the majority of women in this country believe in a woman’s right to choose abortion". This is the fundamental problem with your thought process, choice is between two or more options, not the choice of Abortion or Abortion!!

That being said, so hypothetically if your mother would have made the choice you advocate to be the only choice then you wouldn't be here would you?

pltn
01/27/10 @ 18:56
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Comment from: lucy [Member]
As a woman, I'm offended by your decision to blast an ad you have yet to see. Also why haven't you taken a stand against all the anti-female super bowl ads that have been running for years. These ads are demeaning to females yet your organization has been silent. Are you a one issue organization?
01/27/10 @ 19:06
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Comment from: cabaret voltaire [Member] Email
I remember a few years back Ms. Magazine had women celebrating abortion on the front cover -- which was plastered on every news stand. Was that appropriate? This Super Ad is just one individual offering her personal experience. She's very proud of her decision. Is NOW pro-choice or pro-abortion? Sometimes I wonder. If your about choice, you should respect a woman's decision not to have an abortion. It was her choice. Why doesn't NOW use some of their money to advertise a pro-abortion ad on some random network? I'm sure the ultra liberal MSNBC would show it.
01/27/10 @ 19:39
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Comment from: cabaret voltaire [Member] Email
Another thought. Most people are too drunk on Superbowl Sunday to even notice the commercial :}
01/27/10 @ 19:42
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Comment from: Lisa Bennett, NOW Communications Director [Member] Email
When people don't like what NOW is doing on a certain issue, they often say, why doesn't NOW do something about X? Doesn't NOW care about X? In many cases, NOW actually is doing something about X. We have a Media Hall of Shame that critiques all kinds of media sexism, and we have in the past spoken out against sexist Super Bowl commercials. Please search our website if you are wondering what all NOW is working on.
01/27/10 @ 21:17
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Comment from: pltn [Member] Email
Lisa,

Thank you for chiming in on the conversation. Unfortunately, NOW has shown a disturbing trend over the last few years that leads me for one to question the organization and it's leadership.
I for one am not asking "why doesn't NOW do something about X", but am focusing purely on the issue at hand. As I pointed out in an earlier comment, I didn't march in the 60's for free speech and equal rights to sit back while NOW spits in the face of all of us.

Call it whatever you like, if it looks like fascism, and walks like fascism, it is fascism.

Sincerely,

A former NOW supporter
01/27/10 @ 21:45
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Comment from: cabaret voltaire [Member] Email
'The Media Hall of Shame' is nothing more then cherry picking a few of the thousand things we see every day on TV. Most of the reaction is based on hyper sensitivity. I think this hall of shame is nothing more than an attempt to anger women into joining NOW. Victimization is the very foundation of feminism. You'll never see a media which completely meets NOW's standards. And why should it? Without diversity, the media becomes a fascist platform for special interest groups. Not everyone perceives sexism in the same way feminists do. Its all based on individual perception. Key word being 'individuality' not feminist collectivism or communal blame.
01/27/10 @ 23:58
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Comment from: candyflood [Member] Email
It is ridiculous for NOW to claim that this ad is "offensive to women". It's anything BUT offensive. This ad is an object lesson of what upstanding morals are all about. This is the kind of message we need to be promoting not squelching. We wonder why our country is so full of immorality...it's because we're afraid to be strong and stand up for what's right. Thank GOD for people like the Tebow's and the positive force which is FOF that will stand up for decency when others won't.

It never ceases to amaze me how there is such a prevalent double standard when it comes to how people think and operate. For instance, how can PETA be freaking out about President Obama swatting at a bug on national television and yet It be ok for women to kill their babies before they're born? **For the record, fetuses at all stages are human children no matter what you choose to assume to justify killing them.** I am very much pro-choice and my daughter clearly knows she has choices should she become pregnant. She can choose to keep the baby or she can choose to put it up for adoption. As someone commented earlier, abortion is never a good thing and always leaves the woman riddled with some sort of guilt and/or regret. Giving life to a child and choosing to either keep it and love it or give it to someone else who will love it is what real choice is all about. Mrs. Tebow was/is a strong woman who had a choice to make and chose honorably. God rewarded her choice.
01/28/10 @ 10:57
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Comment from: lippman [Member] Email
Just joined to comment. I'm kind of embarrassed for NOW. Focus on Family's ad sounds exactly like the kind of message a pro-choice should advocate. I am pro-choice. I am not pro-abortion. I am not afraid to hear people proclaim that they are happy they chose not to abort. And if you'd don't like the message, provide counter-speech. Your over-reaction makes NOW appear like they're not supportive of choice but simply pro-abortion. I honestly think this is the biggest (and rathar embarrassing) misstep the organization has made. Worse, it provides fuel to your critics. This seems like it was a knee jerk reaction and not a good one.
01/28/10 @ 14:18
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Comment from: pattis [Member] Email
Perhaps you should consider renaming "Pro Choice" to "Pro Abortion" since clearly you do not see that Pam made her own personal choice. As for promoting "life" and not abortion to women in general through this ad, are you saying that women in general are not capable of making responsible choices for themselves and thus need to be protected from being informed of any options other than abortion? I think you may have missed the boat on this one and in fact only fueled those who are "anti women's lib". I personally do not support abortion, however I do support a woman's right to choose which is exactly what Pam did.
01/28/10 @ 15:08
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Comment from: emily r [Member] Email
How disappointing that an organization that is SUPPOSED to support women and a woman's right to choose, has shown itself to be anti-woman and anti-choice. If a woman decides to have a child against the doctor's recommendation, even if it puts her life in jeopardy to continue with the pregnancy, that is HER choice. I consider myself a feminist - but I guess I'm not your brand of feminist. The more I know about your organization, the more I tend to think that you are simply pushing a politial view and don't really care about women. This is off topic, but, it's always bothered me that NOW doesn't speak out and stand up for the women who get attacked by pundits in the media simply because they are women - unless, of course, the woman being attacked is of a certain political leaning. I'm a recovering liberal who is now a proud independent - because I believe in having a CHOICE in every aspect of my life.
01/28/10 @ 16:04
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Comment from: alwaysorange51 [Member] Email
Focus on the Family has every right to buy time for a commercial during the Super Bowl. I am a woman and I do not find it offensive. I find the story to be inspiring!!!!!!! It is one woman's story and I do not believe it sends the message that all women who give birth are heroes. That is just ignorant on your part. You would not be spewing all this nonsense if you were airing a commercial in favor of abortion. Have you ever heard of Free Speech!!!!! If you want your point of view heard buy time for your own commercial. What are you so afraid of-that someone might possibly decide not to have an abortion? It is time Christians who are pro-life spoke out and made their voices heard loud and clear! CBS please allow the commercial to air!
01/28/10 @ 16:14
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Comment from: angie34usa [Member] Email
"We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children."~Joyce Elders~
01/29/10 @ 11:03
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Comment from: underwear25 [Member] Email
angie34usa:

I think that quote shows the irony of this whole debate. People are clamoring for the end of abortion, but are unwilling to help the children all over the world who have no home, no parents, no family, no food, and no water. We want to give them life, but what is life? What defines the ability to experience life? Is it OK for people to deny women the ability to make a choice - making them bring a child into this world and then leave them on their own, essentially to die a different way?

At the same time, I myself, struggle with abortion. I don't think that abortion is good - but I think women should have a choice. That being said, I struggle with the idea fetus don't have any rights. At what point does life begin, and can we really even answer that question?
01/29/10 @ 11:14
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Comment from: angie34usa [Member] Email
"Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in their belief that their own views on abortion are the more correct, the more moral, and more reasonable. When added to this is the fact that should 'the other side' win, one group of women will see the very real devaluation of their lives and life resources, it is not surprising that the abortion debate has generated so much heat and so little light."
01/29/10 @ 11:22
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Comment from: angie34usa [Member] Email
underwear25~

It is absurd because the topic goes away when elections are over....during the election the politicians are stuck in the middle, when they should grow balls and do what they feel is right.~~~
01/29/10 @ 11:36
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Comment from: leann wilson [Member] Email
How can you spread your lies and sleep at night??? You have not even seen the ad, yet you say it is harmful to women, that its purpose it to tell women it's wrong to get an abortion?!?! You 'women' don't speak for all women and you sure as hell don't speak for me. If nothing else, you are an embarrassment to not only women, but to the human race as a whole. Makes me wonder if God has a special place in hell just for people like you who advocate harm to his children...
01/29/10 @ 13:03
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Comment from: leann wilson [Member] Email
And for the record - I am NOT a member of this group of radicals. I had to register in order to leave my comment - I will promplty request my name be removed from the 'member list'.
01/29/10 @ 13:04
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Comment from: southerncanuck [Member] Email
So NOW, just who do you speak for? Is it all the girls in the lingere football halftime show or the Go-Daddy girls, where is the outcry of the media using women as sex objects or pieces of meat for sex. To object to a women standing up and saying yes I am willing to take responsibility for this child and not go against her values, you have shown women across this country you are out of touch with us. NOW are the ones throwing women under the bus to cater to views out of line with the rest of us.
01/29/10 @ 15:38
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Comment from: nursecathy [Member] Email
stephdoug123, you say you are trying to lead a boycott of the Super Bowl. Good luck with that!
01/30/10 @ 00:51
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Comment from: bebe [Member] Email
I say YES and THANK YOU to this advertisement. There have been many advertisements that have refected the SB players personal stories or other matters of importance in their life. Why is this so different?

There is nothing hypocritical in their story by stating this mothers choice was for the life of her son. Many woman out there may not believe there is 'another' choice to abortion in many cases. In many cases, the medical science behind a doctor's advice is very much incorrect. There are 'two lifes involved in the decision'.

What bothers groups (that are to the contrary of more conservative views); is that it somewhat threatens people actually being exposed from liberal values to more conservative values. To be conservative is to have the same rights as all the 'whatever goes' liberal and 'it's all about me view'. The 'church' is not the only place these values are to be shared. We do live in a country that actually (for moment) allows 'another' point of view.

There are true woman and human rights that could use a lot more attention/support than this propaganda.

This ad has no place on the Super Bowl?? Come on - have you checked out some of the ads in the past, whoe!
01/30/10 @ 02:10
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Comment from: jovan [Member] Email
The National Organization for Women is NOT a fascist group. Not even close.

You want fascism, look at Sarah Palin. Look at Focus on the Family. Look at the National Right to Life. Those are the true fascists.

The National Organization for Women, much like myself, is appalled that during Super Bowl 38, CBS rejected ads from MoveOn.org and the United Church of Christ. What we are appalled at is not just the blatantly misogynistic nature of the Focus on the Family ad, but also at the blatant double standard CBS has.

Most of the commenters on here hate NOW because they are calling CBS out on their bullcrap. So am I. I applaud NOW for being a leader that all women can look up to 45 years running. I am a man, but I believe that if you are going to hold everyone to the same standard, then pulling this ad would set a perfect example of that.

Focus on the Family's agenda is pretty clear cut: they want to control women's lives. They want women to become brood mares. The Focus on the Family group want Washington, DC to subjugate every woman in America. That is their agenda and it does not get any clearer than that.

NOW has had the Media of Shame up here since the mid-1990s. Look it up and stop the dishonest right wing attacks on the organization.

I thank God every day that I am no longer against abortion. I've been pro-choice since 2003. The anti-choice movement today is even more misogynistic than male rappers.

The US government and the anti-choice movement has waged a war on women right here in America for 28 consecutive years. We must fight back and we will fight back, no matter the cost.

The misogynistic filth with the Tebows in it must be removed, without question.
01/30/10 @ 05:54
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Comment from: mary [Member] Email
Is NOW pro abortion or pro choice?? If you're pro choice you should be presenting a 'safer' choice for women and that's the 'morning after pill' rather than an abortion. I think in promoting abortion rather than the 'morning after pill' , you are not thinking about the health of women. I'm pro choice, but NEVER pro abortion. If your pro abortion, I think you're actually selecting a more dangerous option for women rather than the morning after pill. If someone is pro choice and they select not to have an abortion, and it turns out good for them...then great...that shouldn't be a problem for anyone
pro choice.
01/31/10 @ 01:38
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Comment from: mary [Member] Email
Jovan...so you're upset about an ad depicting a woman who made her own choice and it turned out well for her. I'm pro choice, and I don't find anything wrong with that, neither do I find it bothersome if due to unfortunate planning a women chooses an abortion. If each woman is happy with her decision, then that's good. IT'S THEIR CHOICE.....GET IT!!
01/31/10 @ 01:43
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Comment from: mary [Member] Email
And yes, Pam Tebow's story is inspirational....I'm happy for her. If you have someone who had an abortion and it worked out great for them....then put out a commercial depicting their story...but for God's sake stop criticizing a women who made the best choice for herself....that't what I thought PRO CHOICE was all about....but it sounds like NOW doesn't support choice?
01/31/10 @ 01:50
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Comment from: jen olsson [Member] Email
It's true. After looking over this website and reading the protest by NOW against the pro-life message to be aired about the the Tebow family NOW proves itself to be against women, life, choice, & family. If you are making plans to off your fetus and an ad on the SuperBowl makes you feel guilty, then maybe you should re-think your plans. I used to believe people against NOW were just sour grapes who didn't like to be challenged by a women's organization. Now I know NOW hates itself. Geez. Satan does exist.
01/31/10 @ 03:49
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Comment from: jovan [Member] Email
Jennifer Olsson, NOW is not sour grapes. They are a group that fights misogyny wherever it comes from. This Focus on the Family ad is definitely no different.

NOW is only one of a handful of true women's groups out there. Planned Parenthood is another. Every true women's group is a liberal organization.

There are a lot of people on here who are excusing the misogyny from anti-choice groups because of either the Bible or inspiration. Sorry, ladies and gentlemen. There is no excuse for misogyny, even if it is a message celebrating life.
01/31/10 @ 05:08
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Comment from: jen olsson [Member] Email
In response to:
angie34usa [Member]
"We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children."~Joyce Elders~

What's not to love about a fetus? After all they ARE children. Little children.
01/31/10 @ 10:10
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Comment from: jen olsson [Member] Email
"jovan [Member]
Jennifer Olsson, NOW is not sour grapes. They are a group that fights misogyny wherever it comes from."

In response to your comment about my comment. Where did I say NOW was sour grapes? (Even though they are.) And in regards to your belief there is no excuse for misogyny, then why are you bustin' the chops of women who want to keep their children? Your logic needs some work.
01/31/10 @ 10:18
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Comment from: betamark [Member] Email
Anyone who thinks that Pam Tebow is an inspiration is glossing over an important detail: Tim is her 5th child.

Far from being an inspiration, her decision to bring this pregnancy to term (or even to conceive it, for the matter of that) can only be considered to be selfish and ignorant.

Why? Because Pam is endangering the life of our REAL mother: MOTHER EARTH!

Zero Population Growth is still one of the BEST solutions to most, if not all the world's problems including global warming, crime, hunger, poverty, just to name a few.

To this end, couples having children should only reproduce themselves, and that means having a maximum of 2 children.
01/31/10 @ 15:23
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Comment from: jen olsson [Member] Email
Dear Betamark,
Too bad your parents had to reproduce at all.
01/31/10 @ 22:45
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Comment from: mary [Member] Email
betamark...free choice...people can have whatever they want. If you don't believe in everyone deciding what is best for them...then, let me decide for you...you'll have ZERO children, because you think you should control others. Just make your own choices, and stop trying to make everyone elses! No one needs you to control them...unless of course you would like the same treatment!
02/01/10 @ 03:10
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Comment from: Lisa Bennett, NOW Communications Director [Member] Email
Mary, NOW has supported women's access to the morning after pill, also referred to as Emergency Contraception, for years. Please see: http://www.now.org/issues/reproductive/ec.html. NOW supports women's access to ALL reproductive options, but access to EC is not going to end the need for abortion.

To everyone else who keeps saying that NOW doesn't support Pam Tebow's choice -- that's just ridiculous. Any woman should be free to make the reproductive choice that's right for her. We respect Pam Tebow's decision to continue with her pregnancy. What we object to is Focus on the Family's attempt to use Tebow's story to further its goal of overturning Roe v. Wade. We recognize what's at work behind this supposedly warmhearted message. Focus on the Family did not pay $2.5 million simply to celebrate life, they did so to advance their mission of making abortion illegal. Focus on the Family wants women to have fewer reproductive options; they want all women to be left with no option but to carry all pregnancies to term.

Finally, as someone who has had an abortion, I do not regret it at all. The propoganda that the right wing pushes -- that all or most women regret their abortions -- simply is not true. It was abosolutely the right decision for me at the time. Like many other women, I was not ready to be a mother and I did not want to carry my pregnancy to term, give birth and then give a child up for adoption. I'm glad that groups like NOW fought for my rights so that I had a choice.
02/01/10 @ 10:19
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Comment from: msam [Member] Email
Unfortunately, I think NOW is showing itself to be pro-abortion rather than pro-choice with its poor decision to oppose this ad. Although Focus on the Family, the organization sponsoring the ad, has said and done some deplorable things in other areas, especially gay rights, the message of this ad is not offensive to women. It is asking us to consider the consequences of an abortion, in terms of life, which is something I would hope all women do before they undergo one. This doesn't necessarily mean abortion is wholly wrong, and that is not what I believe, but I would hope NOW and all pro-choice supporters can at least stand to watch a 30 second commercial that asks them to consider what it means to have an abortion. If you can't stomach it, then maybe you need to reconsider your position.
02/01/10 @ 14:06
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Comment from: mary [Member] Email
Lisa.... I'm glad your decision worked out well for you. If you had the choice at the time, would you rather take a pill or have an abortion? What I'm saying is NOW should be emphasizing the safest option for women and I think the morning after pill is safer than an abortion. With all the emphasis on abortion rather than a safer method, I don't think it sends a good message for college age women. They need to be fully prepared and aware there's a safer and cheaper alternative....and the riskier procedure is the last option.
02/01/10 @ 21:26
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Comment from: genevabooth [Member] Email
Maybe the worst moment for NOW in this entire debate came with Terry O'Neal smirking, throwing jibes and otherwise being a wisecracking smart ass with Jim Daly on the Larry King Live Show. No matter what side of the issue you are on - pro-life or pro-choice - there is nothing funny about choosing to continue, or end, a pregnancy. And there is nothing attractive about a snarky woman (or man), and it weakens the organization to have a person act so unprofessionally on international television. Since Terry O'Neal is so completely pro-choice she won't object at all to my saying maybe her mother chose wrong.
02/01/10 @ 22:03
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Comment from: garthw [Member] Email
I don't see how anyone who has children can talk about abortion as if it's a choice, and be so proud of their stance. Just call it what it is.. killing your baby. And for your convenience 99% of the time. Just call it what it is. And don't get upset when people stand up for life.
02/01/10 @ 22:49
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Comment from: jen olsson [Member] Email
Re: Lisa Bennett, NOW Communications Director and not regretting her abortion.

I will pray for you and your lost child.

And what if all pregnancies were allowed to be carried to term? Think of the care and respect for life that would inspire.

The freedom birth control and abortion has given women has created more death, disease, loss of self esteem, degradation of the female person, divorce, and lost weekends than perhaps ever in the history of mankind. And speaking of men, they've never had it so good. More of the fun and less of the responsibility. Women have not empowered themselves with artificial birthcontrol and abortion as much as they'd like to believe. More children in poverty than ever before. More single mothers stuggling to raise children than ever before. There is a relationship between the advent of birth control and abortion in the destruction of the female soul.
Women who were destroyed by botched abortions before it was legal died from the stigma of having a child out of wedlock, the meaness of our society that heckles women for wanting families and children, the lack of money being some kind of measure of worth, the cruelty of their partners, and more importantly the lack of love from others and for themselves. We are lazy. We create this arguing amonst ourselves and these drive-by bloggings because we are selfish,self-centered pigs. The world is tripping over themselves to get to the children and people of Haiti to comfort, feed, adopt, and save. Our potential to be our best selves sits dormant...unless inspired. We need Ms.Tebow and her joy. We need some real women of integrity to shine for us.
02/02/10 @ 02:56
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Comment from: sparky22 [Member] Email
Wow I just had to see what the other side thinks and now I know and it is so scary I'm going back to the other side. Carrying a baby to full term is a BAD thing...We need to take care of MOTHER EARTH and quit over populating.... I am stunned that I don't even know what to say about these cold heartless and stupid comments. It's a baby and when you take it's life you have killed it end of story. If you dont want to be a parent give it up for adoption and quit having sex. I don't even know where to go with Ms. Mother Earth you may be past help. The world has turned into a really sad place to be and the anger and evil just keeps getting worse. Please God you can't come back soon enough....
02/02/10 @ 10:40
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Comment from: proudpapa [Member] Email
It's so disappointing to see supposedly educated and informed persons take such a ludicrous position over a TV ad which promotes choosing life vs. abortion. Have you ever thought what life would be like if your mother had chosen abortion?
02/03/10 @ 15:55
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Comment from: fuzzygoddess [Member] Email
We will never go back! The zealous activism that seeks to force women to incubate sperm against their will today, is the same Patriarchal myopic fascist activism that sought to forbid birth control becoming legal.
It's not quality of life, these people are inspiring. It's quantity of life, because they believe all people should ascribe to the Christian tenets that make women property of men! Forcing us to incubate sperm, against our will, is obscene.

So, here's the question. Why doesn't NOW and other Pro-Choice groups, front the money for their own and longer commercial spot to advocate the fact that life is choice! That the pro-choice movement isn't pro-abortion, but is about choice!? Every football player on that field, is living proof their mother was pro-choice!
And every woman in the stands, or sitting beside that man in their life, is proof we're the vessel by which future generations come to exist! (Pun, yes I know. ;-) ) If we do not have the *right* to our personal reproductive privacy, we have no rights at all. Instead of preaching to the choir here, why not put up the money to speak back to those who think they have the field all to themselves, because they can afford to tell us we have no right to choose NOT to be pregnant.

Does one wonder how many anti-choice, forced pregnancy by law advocates actually give homes, to the lives they insist be born!? I've asked and thus far of over 20 people of whom I inquired, only 1 has given a home to the life they insisted be born.
If god gives life, and takes it away, how is abortion not a sacrament when it returns that soul to the source from whence it came!? Especially given how many pregnancies end in involuntary abortion/miscarriage. Which would make that giver of life, the foremost practicing abortionist in the universe! And those occur against that woman's will, because she wanted that baby god took back!

The religious argument is transparent and vacant of logic, when believers are suppose to take on faith that nothing happens without god being behind it. That would make abortion, which is not prohibited in the Bible, god's will too. While that book is replete with passages that prove god is not pro-life! If he, who's image and likeness we're led to believe we are made in, is not pro-life why then should women be forced to live up to a higher standard!?


Buy an ad that contradicts this pending Super Bowl ad. Don't prove the pro-choice movement is against freedom of speech, by refusing it to air. Instead, speak up for our right to control our own wombs!

"Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." Maggie Kuhn
02/03/10 @ 21:00
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Comment from: jen olsson [Member] Email
Maggie Maggie Maggie. I didn't incubate sperm when I conceived my child. Sperm can not create life on its own...it unites with an egg, and at that instant a child with a soul is created. God is the author of life. Thou Shall Not Kill...was a commandment given to man. Not sure where you studied the Bible, but clearly it might be useful to you to do so with a knowledgable instructor. Jesus was not about hate or hatred. Men can be about hate and hatred. We live in a culture of death which dismisses the weak that get in the way of those more powerful. When you promote and push abortion, you have to accept that you may have killed a child today by not standing up for the mother. What have you done to strengthen a woman's belief that she doesn't have to kill a part of herself in order to be acceptable. Remember, Mary---Jesus's mother was unmarried and looking foward to a stoning for being pregnant (nice culture...reminds me of my own). Joseph had to be convinced not to quietly put her aside because he was appalled by her condition. It's a great story. Jesus's mother was single, pregnant, and homeless. Joseph gathered up his courage, needed supernatural inspriation to be strong enough to stand up for her. The baby was born in a barn and laid to rest in an animal trough....and look what HE did with his life. And GOD allowed his son to come into the world in that vulnerable helpless way with frightened parents who didn't always know what to do or what hardship was coming next. So don't be so prejudice against the unborn, or their mothers. Do something to empower women to feel like it is a safe place to give birth...quit verbally stoning and shaking your finger and women who want life to triumph over death.
02/04/10 @ 03:32
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Comment from: fuzzygoddess [Member] Email
jen olsson, jen olsson, jen olsson.

I'm not Maggie.

Maggie Kuhn was the founder of the gray panthers. An organization that addressed age discrimination, pension rights, nursing home reform, and any issues that effect the elderly in this Nation.
She was a fighter. An independent forthright spirit, who refused to have her age and her sex make her victim to those who would imply or seek to effect directly, the message that she doesn't matter because she's old.

Much like your cult tactics. Who imagine an invisible being, taken to exist by faith alone, gives you the *right* to force every woman on earth to submit to the edicts attributed to it, by the mortal men that conceived it into being.

Your god is not pro-life. The man made errant text that is the Bible, proves this so. Your god, in Genesis proves that life begins when the first breath is taken. So says, Genesis 2:7.
If life begins at conception, which is biologically true, but not applicable to the Theists perspective when they speak of such fictions as "soul", then your god is the universal abortionist! For if all conceived sperm has a soul, that would mean god is indeed evil! But then again, he promises he is, in Isaiah 45:7. As he causes that spontaneous abortion, that miscarriage, by will. And takes from that mother, who wants that child bearing the soul, to grow within her womb and come to life. The lord giveth and he taketh away! It's not a mystery. It's an abortion, induced by god.

And why, oh why dear believer, would you begrudge a woman created in the image and likeness of your god who then can do nothing other than to exhibit the characteristics of that Deity, as she bears the Gnosis of god, after Eve ate of the apple that bore the powers of god within it's fruit. God chooses to abort. And so to then do women, made in it's image and likeness, do the same. And god approves! As he aborts more zygotes and fetus, in the time it took you to read this far, than any one abortion clinic on earth has in the same amount of time.

Abortion is a sacrament, in the light of the god myth you uphold on faith.Sending that soul back to god, as god takes it back by his own choice otherwise, returns that soul to paradise unblemished by the curse of sin god would have otherwise placed upon it. Had it been let to bear in this sin filled place of god's creation. Where we the people, made to bear the sin god placed upon us, suffer and strive beneath the gaze of omniscient omnipresence, with the antithesis of itself; his first born son Satan 'El, to meet our destiny as the damned.

God does not live here. If you knew your Bible you'd know that. God turned his back upon all the generations that sprang from the cursed womb of Eve, after her transgression in the garden. But Omniscience saw it coming. Just as Omnigenesis, set the stage for all of it to occur.
So when you tell every woman on Earth, that she must supplicate her reproductive privacy, to the dominion of a god that is as evil as the worst human sinner, it is you that are damned. For bowing to that which is no better than the worst human. For worshiping that which you fear not to. For asking salvation for your being made a sinner, by it when what you seek redemption and salvation from, is god himself.
Your faith has no right to rule my body! Your deviant cult ignorance sought to control women, in the early 20th century. When your predecessors resorted to the same vile tactics so as to preclude women from access to birth control.
With your kind, it's a matter of quantity! NOT quality, of life. But what you do and shall ever fail to understand, is that life is choice! And what you do not nor shall you ever see, is that your god agrees!

Do you hear that?!

Now that you've read this far, thousands of the born have starved to death in sub-Saharan Africa amid the prayers beseeching god save them from the pain of living with disease and hunger. And more and more babies are born with AIDS/HIV, because the Catholic cultists arrive there, and while condemning the tribal traditions of worshiping Pagan gods, teaches the diseased, the starving and the dying, that the new white god prohibits birth control! And abortion. (But oddly enough, not disease, nor starvation). And so, they can continue to breed, spread disease and find themselves unable to feed what they birth to an impoverished life. Because while flies surround their mucous membranes, for they are fat and happy feeding off of fetid human corpses, at least the people will be fat and happy in the light of the lord...AFTER THEY'RE DEAD! (Unless they're unsaved. Then the suffering here, pales in comparison to what awaits in god's created hell. But no worry, for they shall see god there too! So says, Psalm 139:8)

There's something wrong with a religious myth that gives comfort by promising, all will be better when you're no longer alive. And then the adherents to that fiction, attempt to force the living to make more babies whether they want to or not! And you are just such an advocate.

That's not holy!
That's not even evil.
That's simply, depraved, fascist and terroristic. Just like your god.

If you want to insure no woman have to choose her own reproductive future, police your own reproductive future. Love your neighbor as yourself, as your Christ commanded. For there is nothing in the Bible that forbids abortion. Nor could there be, when scripture after scripture says; god is pro-choice!
How then does your fascist dictatorial platform dare command, women live up to a higher standard than god!?

02/04/10 @ 14:05
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Comment from: jen olsson [Member] Email
Dear Fuzzygoddess person,

You have no nuance. You have difficulties reading and comprehending. You forgot to finish the Bible by reading the New Testament. And your logic need some work too.

Catholics are one of your favorite groups to hate, yet you like reading their literature. Only, if you had finished reading Psalm 139, you would have read some of the most beautiful words. Pslam 139:13 "You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's womb" (in case you need a footnote, the You the poet is referring to is God.)

But anyway, name one religion that promotes abortion...Muslim...no, Christian...no, Hindu...no, Jewish...no, Buddhist...no. Can't find one that says God's ok with you offing his creations.

Politics keeps the food from getting to the starving people of Africa. They are not starving because they have too many children. They starve and their children die because of war, famine, lack of some fabulous export like...oil, which leads to a lack of concern by the rest of the world... Telling women to kill their children is not going to solve the problems of Africa. Also, abortion is a not so subtle form of genocide. Funny it is assumed that all "POOR" women hate having children. Actually, America seems to hate women in places like South America, Africa, India, any of those far off nations that can't possibly be modern. So if we could just get them to abort...then we wouldn't be threatened by their need, their growth, and possibly one day...THIER POWER. Darn those Catholic South Americans lovin' their children the way they do...and apparently each other.

God doesn't force anyone to do anything. There's this thing in Christianity understood as...Free Will. As a follower of Christ, I have no desire to force women to have abortions, or force women to have children. I have a dream that one day, even if there are more abortion clinics than StarBucks, they will go out of business because women will no longer buy into the lie of abortionists, and NOW, and any of the other groups that spend their money encouraging women to hate each other and their kids and men. By the way, does NOW have a fund or organization they might refer women to who have been damaged by the abortions they were promised would improve their lives? I'd like to know because a close family member of mine became so distraught after she aborted her child she ended up in a psych ward for two weeks. Fortunately, the Catholic church has a program called Rachel'sVineyard,
www.rachelsvineyard.org
to help women who have suffered the loss of children. Oh...that's another thing in Christianity, instituted by Christ....Forgiveness.
02/05/10 @ 03:07
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Comment from: mary [Member] Email
Choice....let everyone make their own....if you try to control others, it's really just an excuse to ignore your own problems! Choice is choice....if the morning after pill works for you, good....if having the baby works for you, good. If you're trying to control someone else's decision, go back and deal with the issues you're avoiding in your OWN LIFE.
02/05/10 @ 09:54
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Comment from: jen olsson [Member] Email
Mary, what choice did the baby have?
02/05/10 @ 11:44
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Comment from: sunshine [Member] Email
I have a beautiful 6 year old who excels in school. At four weeks they told me to abort him and try again because he was going to be special. I was scared but did not and thank God I did not, People say they are pro choice but lets get technical it is pro death.
02/08/10 @ 21:08
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Comment from: not a now supporter [Member] Email
I am so absolutely repulsed by this sham of an organization that purports to represent women. The disgusting bias put on display by both the President and Vice President of NOW should make all women think twice about ever supporting this organization, especially monetarily.

So you have a problem with a fake tackle by Tim Tebow on his mom. Are you kidding me??? I haven't heard one peep out of you about the Betty White commercial, or the Doritos commercial showing the woman with the black eye inviting her boyfriend in with a small child present.

How do you look yourselves in the mirror?

Your agenda is simply to ensure there are as many abortions as possible, and you cannot stand the idea of any woman making a REAL CHOICE, that being to have a child when there may be problems. THAT IS REAL PRO-CHOICE. YOU PEOPLE ARE SIMPLY PRO-ABORTION!!! You really should stop pretending otherwise.

YOU DO NOT REPRESENT ALL WOMEN, AND WHAT OFFENDS ME IS THAT YOU DO STUPID THINGS LIKE THIS, MAKING ALL WOMEN APPEAR TO BE BIMBOS LIKE YOU ARE.

You should all be ashamed of yourselves!
02/08/10 @ 21:08
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Comment from: notnow [Member] Email
Terry O'Neill says she is "blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it (this ad)".

Her comments illustrate how laughable this organization (NOW) has become. Anyone who sees violence in this ad has no ability to perceive playful love and affection. If this ad reminded her of the abuse she witnessed as a child, then she should be seeking counseling, and step down until she has resolved these issues.

Since NOW waged a campain to pull the ad before it ran shows thier propensity to stifle free speech. Why is trampling on speech they don’t like fine, but anything that threatens abortion is wrong.

NOW doesn’t represent myself or millions of other independent, clear thinking women who have two feet firmly planted in reality.
02/08/10 @ 22:03
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Comment from: notnow [Member] Email
Dear fuzzygoddess,

wow...ummm...I'll pray for your soul.
02/08/10 @ 22:18
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Comment from: sunshine22 [Member] Email
Fuzzygoddess YOU ARE NUTS! Women were not made in Gods image men were. We were taken from a rib. Satan was Gods highest angel who rebelled because God put humans before angels and he did not think that was right. Also there is an age of innocence that if a child dies before they know right or wrong they will go to Heaven. God is not pro choice You are crazy to think that at all. Why not use birth control you all act like it is not out there? over 200 kinds. Abortion is not birth control!!!!!!! God loves babies but we have free will do what we must and not forced to make these decisions. But I will say this you will reap what you sew and I hope that if you have and abortion that you do not have kids at all.
02/11/10 @ 21:52
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Comment from: sunshine22 [Member] Email
God will judge you not man. If you think you are right be happy live on, But I know God does not think you are so do not bother going to church shouting Holy Holy, god will judge you so live on just do not force your baby killing on me. GOD BLESS THE INNOCENT HELPLESS! And if you so love it why don't you go see a partial term abortion on you tube? See how great that is.
02/11/10 @ 21:55
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Comment from: fuzzygoddess [Member] Email
Dear jen olsson person,

You set the typical hypocritical example of one that fails to live up to the label; christ like.
So much venom, against your own sisters. And all because some of us choose to exercise that "god given" free will, and refuse to be forced into incubating sperm. Just to make more people, in a world where the depraved hate that cult faiths like your own, a sinful abomination in the eyes of their maker, first.
I have no nuance!? And limited comprehension!? Why thank you, as I consider the source of that criticism.
One who whispers in a closet to an unnatural man, who serves the most prolific and populace fascist dictatorship on earth.Who is a member of the largest cult in the world, that have, as is in evidence, suborned boys rape for centuries. Who have covered it up, shuttled the offenders around from parish to parish knowing full well the disease that was about to descend upon the next collection of unsuspecting and innocent victims, to that priestly pedophilia.
Who have the audacity to condemn homosexuality, the notion of women clergy, and women's right to choose. All the while saying they hierarchy of that institution makes such admonitions, because god said it is righteous and true. But where was god, when those boys were being mouth raped by those collared emissaries, in the dark!?
And it is from that platform of depravity and hubris, that the likes of you believe your right not to abort, gives you the right to condemn all women who do not agree to be forced to breed. By either man's law or that of your invisible friend. How arrogant to believe a higher power condemns all the same people that you find worthy of such judgment. How right, that you worship what you fear not to. That you call me names, while exampling yourself one who is a follower rather than a thinker. Otherwise, you'd know that no thinking person who has read the Bible, could ever voluntarily choose to curb their intellect so as to be a christian.
Especially as a member of a fascist dictatorship, like the Catholic faith. No, you're wrong. I do not hate your faith. I appreciate the example it affords, for what fear can breed into weak minds, that take it all to heart as truth. You and your kind remind me what I can become, if I choose to believe something worthy of the title;"god", is able to create imperfection. And then be worshiped by that imperfect damned being, for making it so.

The world needs people like you. Especially it's women. You remind us of what we must recognize as holy, as that living example each of us are. Female power! We did not bring sin into this world. Your omniscient god myths did. And if your god can example himself as a murderer, page after page. And as the universal abortionist, miscarriage after miscarriage, then we the women of this planet can decide whether or not we'll bring seed to life! While any man made laws, will fail in policing our choices, as history proves. And any myth mandated edict, shall boast itself firstly, as impotent and transparent in that intention to demand women example a higher regard for life, than god!
And besides that, just to keep it simple for you dear, how could you possibly be against abortion!? When, if it is the taking of a god given life, it's simply the mortal choice to give that soul back. So that it is saved from being born into a world, while bearing god's given curse of sin upon it!?

It's your hell. You burn in it.
Meanwhile, as the simple wisdom says; keep your Rosary out of our ovaries!
If you're against abortion, don't have one.
if you believe every zygote is a life, live up to what you command other women to do. Give the born a home, of your own! Or foster!
When you don't do that, you're just another hypocritical zealot, bent on making the world into your image and likeness.

Good luck with that.
For you will live all your days and finally die, disappointed that you failed.

Thank god.

02/12/10 @ 18:30
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Comment from: jen olsson [Member] Email
Dear FuzzyHeaded, Got Lithium?
02/14/10 @ 01:32
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