22 Comments

1. Chris
   Posted January 26, 2010 at 8:20 am | Permalink

   I happen to be pro choice, but in this instance…Ladies you are being hypocritical. You are all for freedom of choice, but against the freedom of speech??? Other special interest groups and Tebow have a right to voice their opinion whether you agree with it or not. Think about it.

2. Ali
   Posted January 26, 2010 at 9:02 am | Permalink

   It’s too bad that we talk in this country about a woman’s right to choose and yet when one woman wants a chance to tell the story of her CHOICE, a group like this decides to come down on her. It goes both ways and you can’t have your cake and eat it too. Let’s remember what the word “choice” means people.

3. Bradley J. Hustad
   Posted January 26, 2010 at 10:32 am | Permalink

   Your view on this subject seems to stem from what you believe is morally right or wrong. You believe that women should have the right to choose what to do with their bodies and so believe that it is morally incomprehensible to deny abortions. Unfortunately, there is a flip side to the coin. People who oppose these views believe it is morally wrong to kill somebody or kill somebody that is in the process of being created. Thus, they believe it is morally incomprehensible to accept abortions.

   Tolerance is respecting someone else’s beliefs, not necessarily accepting them. Yes, fight your battle, but respect somebody else’s beliefs. For you to protest this advertisement is a sign of disrespect. I do not believe you would be so happy if your organization purchased a Super Bowl ad arguing pro-choice and Christian groups protested. In fact, you would probably say that the denial of your right to be heard is a violation of the First Amendment.

   The First Amendment states Americans have the right to free speech. Is that not what this group is doing? For you to deny that right is disrespectful and intolerant because you are not respecting their right to have different beliefs. Instead of getting in such a fuss over this, why don’t you raise money to purchase your own Super Bowl ad?

4. Lynn
   Posted January 26, 2010 at 10:50 am | Permalink

   I think the ad is great. Women need to know that they have a choice. It is a great story from a person that is saying that he could have been aborted but his mother choose not to. Wonder how many great and wonder people have already been aborted. Aren’t you glad that your mother didn’t abort you.

5. Varria Studios
   Posted January 26, 2010 at 12:11 pm | Permalink

   A woman has the right to create life when she is ready.

6. Tanya
   Posted January 26, 2010 at 12:18 pm | Permalink

   This is not an “anti-abortion” advertisement. It is simply providing an example of someone who chose not to abort her baby and the positive outcome of that decision. With all of the anger and name-calling, it seems abundantly clear that you are “pro-choice” only when the woman chooses to abort.

7. mike
   Posted January 26, 2010 at 2:43 pm | Permalink

   When did WMC become the sole arbitrator of what constitutes fairness and truth ? Perhaps they would like to vet all the superbowl ads and other CBS programming.

8. Frank Johnson
   Posted January 26, 2010 at 3:15 pm | Permalink

   Why are you so afraid of family values? TV is saturated with violence, sex, and often portrays the abnormal as normal. This ad is a refreshing change.

9. Lee Ellen Benjamin
   Posted January 26, 2010 at 3:27 pm | Permalink

   ANY ad that even whispers anti-abortion is WRONG! Running an ad of this nature during the Super Bowl is WRONG! In 2004, CBS refused to air an ad from the United Church of Christ (http://mediamatters.org/blog/201001250016) But NOW, they are willing to support an anti-abortion organization during TV’s BIGGEST program of the year! NO!!!

   I would guess that Focus on the Family could spend $2-3M in more useful ways, too!

10. Steph
    Posted January 26, 2010 at 3:32 pm | Permalink

    I was surprised to hear that this organization was protesting this ad. Sounds like the Mom chose her path, and they are showing the results. Didn’t sound like anything more.

11. Lila
    Posted January 26, 2010 at 4:02 pm | Permalink

    I’m pro-choice for legal reasons and because I believe in every woman’s right to appropriate and adequate health care whether that entails pregnancy termination or labor & delivery. I understand that not everyone shares my view, and I understand that in this country, one of the greatest feminist triumphs is our right to free speech and to disseminate our ideas and beliefs. If Mrs. Tebow made a choice to have Tim, that’s great. My mother-in-law made a choice to have her daughter, my sister-in-law, who she was told did not have a brain and would not survive. When people carry these pregnancies to delivery, sometimes great things happen as it did with Tim & my sister-in-law, who is a public high school teacher today. Sometimes things don’t turn out so well. It is our decision as to whether or not we want to go through with those prengancies and hope for the best or terminate them to spare ourselves and our families a lot of suffering. They made their choices. I’m all for that. We shouldn’t be threatened by a 30-second Super Bowl ad. We should be worrying about SCOTUS, the women in Haiti, and the rise in teen pregnancy from such an ill-conceived (no pun intended) national sex education system.

12. jaye
    Posted January 26, 2010 at 6:02 pm | Permalink

    Why give talking heads like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck more fuel for the fire by being so vocally opposed to this ad? Chris and Ali were spot on in their defense of CHOICE!

13. Cindy
    Posted January 26, 2010 at 6:52 pm | Permalink

    Lets do what we can to find out when the Tebow add will be on. Then we can all TURN IT OFF! The best way to have our voice be heard is for CBS to risk losing other advertising dollars because we vote with our pocketbooks.

14. Barbara Glickstein
    Posted January 26, 2010 at 6:53 pm | Permalink

    I support WMC’s campaign questioning CBS’s policy to allow this ad from Focus on Family when they have refused to air other ads from progressive organizations in the past. I support values that are inclusive and do not preach hate of others. I believe in human rights and the rights of all LBGT people. I hope CBS listens and pulls this ad.
    Barbara Glickstein

15. Pamela Hinds
    Posted January 26, 2010 at 7:20 pm | Permalink

    Why is Focus on the Family un-American? Don’t we still have freedom of speech in America? I support this commercial being aired.

16. mike
    Posted January 26, 2010 at 8:47 pm | Permalink

    hmmm

17. Jennifer
    Posted January 27, 2010 at 5:54 am | Permalink

    The issue here is NOT freedom of speech. The issue is the fact that CBS sees no problem promoting a ‘foundation’ whose entire existence is based on intolerance and ignorance, while turning away a group based on tolerance and acceptance. The person who doesn’t see a problem with that? Is part of the problem, not the solution. Focus on the Family is a vile organization.

18. Kendall
    Posted January 27, 2010 at 7:42 am | Permalink

    Choice is just that…choice. Stop trying to take away the choice for women who CHOOSE life.

19. Laurie Petersen
    Posted January 27, 2010 at 8:25 am | Permalink

    The ad is simple and universal (for I know many a story like this one): If your choice is life, the life you choose to spare has the potential to do great things.

20. Michelle Giles
    Posted January 27, 2010 at 8:57 am | Permalink

    I don’t understand why the WMC would be against this commercial. I thought you were all about a woman’s right to freedom of speech in the press. Isn’t this exactly what it is??? Shame on you!

21. mac heird
    Posted January 28, 2010 at 6:30 am | Permalink

    If CBS is going to accept advertising money from Focus on the Family (or whatever it’s called…), it would seem that they should also advertise for the American Nazi Party. Or the KKK.

22. Marjie
    Posted February 4, 2010 at 11:15 pm | Permalink

    ….It does my heart good to read how many people support a womans right to …..’freedom of speech’.such hysteria ladies really !!!…be brave….and on Superbowl Sunday…. go for a nice long walk and chill!!…. me, I’ll be glued to the television …..just love my football…. oh, and those ads…. priceless !!!!