The national director for Generation Life says it comes as no surprise that liberal groups are upset over a Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mother.
Focus on the Family produced the 30-second spot, which is slated to run during the CBS broadcast on Sunday and reportedly will feature Pam Tebow recounting her decision to carry Tim to full-term, despite a doctor’s advice to have an abortion due to health concerns.
Liberal and feminist groups were quick to denounce the ad, even though it has yet to be previewed, and Brandi Swindell, founder and national director of Generation Life, contends the heated opposition shows the liberal groups’ true colors.
“They’re not really pro-choice organizations — they are pro-abortion organizations,” she contends. “So it’s disappointing when you see ads that pretend to be pro-woman, that at the end of the day are completely anti-woman. And we see them being very pro-abortion, very anti-woman as they protest and are so angry over this ad.”
The National Organization for Women has criticized the network’s decision to air the ad, saying it (is) “life threatening” and “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning.” To which, self-described pro-choice sports columnist Sally Jenkins replies : “If the pro-choice stance is so precarious that a story about someone who chose to carry a risky pregnancy to term undermines it, then CBS is not the problem.”
And there is the final truth of the matter – while plenty of people, as individuals, are pro-choice, the so-called “pro-choice” movement is actually pro-abortion. They are on the war path against this ad because it is an effective ad – it shows that even in the most trying of times, where there is life, there is hope. The leaders of the “pro-choice” movement are worried that the ad will just continue a long-standing trend – of more and more women choosing life and hope over death and despair.
I’ve come to the conclusion that there are two motivators for the “pro-choice” movement: greed and guilt. Greed, on the part of some who make bank off either performing abortion or running “pro-choice” groups. Guilt, on the part of those who have obtained, performed or assisted in abortion – or, by advocacy, have clearly advanced abortion – and now carry about the knowledge that they are complicit in murder of the unborn. The real pity is that they don’t realize that forgiveness and redemption are just a prayer away – they can get the burden of death off their shoulders and become people of Life, just by asking.
But pride isn’t a deadly sin just for the heck of it – it is, in my view, the deadliest of the deadly sins because it prevents us from rejecting all sin, and from accepting any salvation. People don’t like to admit they are wrong – it hurts the pride to have to humbly admit to error. And this especially true of those errors which remain after we’ve excused ourselves 10,000 times because of circumstances, and now are face to face with that error which clearly and absolutely our fault. Something we did which we know was wrong before we did it. As long as Pride hangs around such an error, the prideful person will never let it go.
And so the pro-abortion stones will continue to be cast, though it is clear that the Culture of Life is slowly winning the battle. This is natural because life is natural – we’re built for it and eagerly accept it; to reject it and to seek its end for trivial reasons just goes against the grain.
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