Tebow to appear in Focus on the Family commercial during SB XLIV

I may just be speaking for myself, but I think most pro-choice women are exactly that. I don't just support a woman's right to choose abortion, I also support a woman's right to choose to have a baby, as Pam Tebow did.

But she and her son only support making the same decision she did, so if someone else was pregnant and had an illness and could die and leave 4 children motherless, and unlike Pam, couldn't afford a private, around-the-clock doctor for the final several months of pregnancy, I don' think the Tebows would have any room or support if a woman chose a different path than the Tebows did.

 

They can only be thrilled if it works it their favor, which in 2010, it clearly does.

If you overturned Roe v Wade -- which in undeniably bad law -- states could decide the issue & put it to rest.

 

That's an extreme case. Most abortions are used simply as birth control

 

YF, this thread is proof that the combined strength of the Supreme Court, state legislatures and Tebow won't put the issue of abortion to rest. Because we've invoked Reggie White, Tebow will have better luck changing minds if his commercial was about Asians' watchmaking skills.

 

Here's the real absurdity of it:

We're still having the abortion debate, 37 years after Roe v. Wade. This is settled. It's not going back to the Supreme Court (and frankly, I don't see how it could, though I'm far from a legal expert. But I don't see the SCOTUS simply saying, 'Hell, let's overturn Roe v. Wade this go-round'). No state legislator, governor, representative, senator or president has the authority to overturn it. And the people aren't going to get to vote on it anywhere because, well, the supreme law of the land says its legal.

Abortion is a political hot-button used by politicians to garner support and make their opponent look like a baby-killer in conservative states or an anti-woman sexist in liberal states.

And it never fails. Every year Americans use abortion to judge whether or not they're going to vote for someone, as if that person will have the power to stop abortions forever.

It's ridiculous. And it says a lot about the quality of civic education in this country. Our economy is in the shitter, our banking system is fucked, we're stuck in two seemingly endless wars, we've got 10 percent unemployment, most of the states are facing huge budget shortfalls, the housing industry sucks, among other things ... and yet, in 2010, we're going to have people voting for Politician A or Politican B, deciding the election, based on how they stand on fucking abortion.

And then people will sit back and wonder why the hell everything's still screwed up.

 

This. Crash....I couldn't agree more. It's not going to get overturned......ever.

 

FWIW, my Constitutional Law professor said it "has a good chance of eventually being overturned." He said it more than once, and he was no originalist. They've already chipped away at the margins of it, and it seems the only reason they didn't overturn it when they had the chance in 1992 was to send the message that the Supreme Court wasn't for sale politically.

 

Exactly the point. Many of the women who choose to have an abortion don't have the options that Pam Tebow had. It's a hell of a lot easier to have those opinions when you haven't had to make the same hard choices. And in Tim Tebow's case, he will never have to make that choice.

 

I just don't see it happening.....I hope I'm right.

 

I don't think the Focus on the Family types and their alllies really, deep down, want it to be overturned. It's been such a great wedge issue over the years ...

 

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know enough about it. I was just relating what I was told.

 

That's completely real. Remember when some of those leaked e-mails came out? The worldview they showed was fascinating. She thought people who opposed her politically were evil and working for the devil, or something like that.