Pro-Choicers Should Quit Complaining about SuperBowl Ad

So, Focus on the Family, a national anti-abortion group, is going to run a television commercial during the Super Bowl. It apparently stars University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow and reportedly conveys a “pro-life” message. In response, the national pro-choice organizations are screaming foul, it’s not fair, it’s a political decision to air it, blah, blah, blah. Ironically, by complaining so much about it they are probably guaranteeing that it will get a larger audience.

I am already growing weary of the noise from the pro-choicers. Think about it. They are complaining about an organization that a) thought of the idea and b) raised enough money to pay for the ad. Why didn’t the pro-choice movement do the same? With their national base of support, they could have raised millions of dollars to do an ad advocating their position. This reminds me of the stink pro-choicers put up about the “Choose Life” license plates. In certain states, you can buy this special plate for an extra fee and the money will go to pro-life counseling centers. The pro-life movement accomplished this by persuading their legislatures to make it law. What a concept! Yet, the pro-choice movement complained. My question is: why isn’t the pro-choice movement trying to get “Pro-Choice” license plates?

I am also not going to buy the argument that CBS, in allowing the Tebow ad, is showing its conservative colors because sometime in the past they rejected a pro-gay rights ad. Instead of whining about how unfair it is, the pro-choice movement should be busting its butt to raise the political stakes, to make it so that rejecting a pro-choice ad in the future would be politically and economically unpalatable.

Quit complaining, take the bull by the horns, organize, lobby, raise money, speak up for ABORTION rights and, while I’m at it, get rid of that “choice” nonsense. The younger generation does not know what “choice” means, but they know what abortion is – so let’s talk about it and let’s start putting a commercial together for next year’s Super Bowl.

cgregor Says:

February 7, 2010 at 11:46 am

Ms. Richards, good sentiments, but problematic.

The first problem is that to argue from the viewpoint of access to abortion is to play by the so-called “pro-lifer” rules. They have so successfully demonized abortion that it is tantamount to defending the devil.

What should be done is to campaign on the basis of their care ABOUT life rather than to care FOR it– Professor Craig Seaton in Activism and Altruism pointed out that they are no more likely than the rest of the population to take on unwanted children. The aborticentrism site points out how they have become a dysfunctional twelve-step program to meet their own needs, not those of children or families (except as incidental to their real purpose).

Second, the so-called “pro-choice” crowd (actually, since they are the ones to choose to care for the children they want to have, they are the actual “pro-lifers”) are not as motivated by fear and hatred to pour money into PR campaigns. They are also on the defensive about wanting access to abortion (because they haven’t learned to change the rules of the debate) so are less likely to want to commit publicly.

Pro and con license plates will only serve to keep the aborticentrics in the forefront of the headlines. Can you imagine what might happen at a crash involving the two different plates? Better for the “pro-choice” side to circulate the story of Louise Cowell, whose son is commemorated by “pro-life” license plates in the very state where he murdered his last victims. Check it out on the Responsible Right to Life site (or google aborticentrism). Pointing out the dysfunctionality of the group in its many ramificatiions will go much farther toward winning this war.

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Pat Richards Says:

February 7, 2010 at 2:55 pm

Thanks for your reply…

You hit it on the head when you said that the anti-abortion folks have succesfully demonized abortion. That is the problem in a nutshell.

A million of so women a year get abortions and the procedure is still stigmatized. There is an organization called the Abortion Care Network whose mission is to “de-stigmatize” the abortion process. The organization includes providers of abortion services and who better than them to testify to the “benefits” of legal abortion?

Connie Says:

February 7, 2010 at 5:07 pm

Obama’s desire to repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell” can actually help to fulfill the “days of Lot” (Luke 17, cf. Gen. 19), the fulfillment of which will hurry up the return of the Heavenly Commander-in-Chief who will make all things straight (pun intended)! Interesting Google articles include “Obama Supports Public Depravity,” “Separation of Raunch and State” and “David Letterman’s Hate Etc.”
For some dessert visit Yahoo and type in “Obama Avoids Bible Verses.”
PS – You’re invited to use these new pro-life slogans: “Unborn babies should have the right to keep and bear arms – and legs and ears and eyes etc.!” and “Unborn babies should have the same right to be born alive that abortionists had!”
PPS – Super Bowl suits me to a T – Tim Tebow!

February 7, 2010 at 5:17 pm

Thanks, Connie. But you sound rather angry. I assume, however, that we agree that we need to reduce the need for abortions. Do you support any kind of birth control?

Larry Joe Says:

February 7, 2010 at 11:37 pm

I don’t understand what half is being said up there,
but any body with a brain knows that women deserve the right to control their bodies.

Hands off.

Prolifers cannot make any reasonable arguments, they are decimated,
They will all die of old age in the next generation except for a few brainwashed
sadly indoctrinated young ones that will totally be on the fringe.

February 8, 2010 at 8:55 am

Larry Joe: I agree with you on your basic prochoice position, but the polls show that less people support the pro-choice position. I believe that is because we all know the issue comes down to abortion. You seem reasonable, let me ask this tough one. Take a look at a medical book and look at a 22 week fetus. Abortions are being performed on them. The pro choice movement needs to address this issue and/or at least have a response to those situations. This is why I support an honest conversation about abortion which focuses on how to reduce the need for them and, if necessary, how to insure that they will be performed early in the pregnancy.

February 8, 2010 at 11:28 am

Pat,

I don’t have a medicine book.

that all sounds good, but what does a person like me do?

Who do I have a conversation with?

Larry

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