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

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Herbert Anchovy, Jan 16, 2010.

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  1. Peytons place

    Peytons place Member

    PS: Calling homosexuality a threat to civilization and actively fighting against hate-crime laws that protect homosexuals is gay-bashing in my opinion. And suggesting that the feminist movement is "hurtful to women" because it encourages them to give up their natural roles as mothers, homemakers and nurturers, isn't a very female-friendly attitude, either.
     
  2. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    Let's say Roe vs. Wade is overturned and abortion is outlawed in at least one state.
    What's the appropriate punishment?
    Should the person who performs the abortion be punished or the woman who is having it, or both?
     
  3. RedSmithClone

    RedSmithClone Active Member

    I see no problem with this ad running. Maybe they can tie it in with the ETRADE BABIES.
     
  4. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    I don't have a problem either. I think FOTF is a bunch of uptight morons, and I don't necessarily agree with the premise of the spot, but I also know my opinion isn't the only one out there. And if someone has the money to spend on an opinion that isn't mine, I can handle it.
     
  5. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    I wonder if Jeffrey Dahmer's or John Wayne Gacy's or Ted Bundy's mom was urged to have an abortion and were courageous enough not to.
     
  6. Exactly.
    Compared to half the other shit that runs on TV.. The Tebow ad is tame. Just a bunch of stupid shit for people to argue over, in between bikini beer commercials.

    FYI: Tebow will be in W.Va Sunday for a speaking engagement at the Coal Classic.
     
  7. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Without the kind of folks like Mrs Tebow and the Virgin Mary our souls would never be saved.

    I for one am fine with the ad but I prefer the beer ads with scantlily clad women perhaps mud wrestling.
     
  8. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    I think nowadays, when pro-lifers talk about laws banning abortion, they're talking about punishing the doctors, not the women.

    When Roe v. Wade first came out, pro-lifers wanted both doctor and woman punished. They've evolved since that time.

    To me, another big issue is that Pam Tebow was advised to have an abortion by her doctors, yet refused. How many women are going to see her ad, decide to go against their doctor's advice, and end up medically harmed?
     
  9. Magic In The Night

    Magic In The Night Active Member

    Their doctors would then not be liable because they advised them to have an abortions.
     
  10. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    I wasn't referring to doctors' liability. I was referring to women's physical health being irrepairably harmed, or worse, because they didn't take their doctor's advice.
     
  11. I apologize if this has been addressed elsewhere on the thread, but has anyone actually found Mrs. Tebow's doctor and interviewed him? There are elements to the story that seem apocryphal. Yet every news story states it as fact, without attribution, that Mrs. Tebow was told to have an abortion.
     
  12. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    I can't imagine that would fly with the confidentiality portion of medical ethics to talk about it one way or the other.
     
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