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

Your'e allowed to do whatever you want, of course.

I think that acting like they've been caught in a lie moves us away from some of the more important, core issues (the main one, to me, being why the NFL suddenly accepts advocacy ads). Maybe I'm biased because I don't think they're lying. I think that people don't like their politics, and are looking for reasons to rationalize not liking them as people, either.

 

It is perfectly reasonable that a doctor may have advised her to have an abortion, or hinted at it strongly, but could not perform it himself. I just don't see the glaring inconsistency that others want to see so badly.

 

No stretch at all. The doctor is Philippino. He can’t legally recommend something that is illegal. I can’t go to my doctor and ask for medical marijuana in a state that doesn’t have it legal. The doctor can’t offer it since it isn’t available to him.

Again, a doctor there cannot legally recommend an abortion. Mrs. Tebow is making the claim that a doctor there did something illegal. It has nothing to do with the ability to fly to the US. It has everything to do with the laws that exist and what a doctor can and cannot say.

If you want to believe that a doctor risked losing his license as well as jail time in order to recommend an abortion to an American that is in the country on a religious mission, okay. I’ll go with common sense.

How is it perfectly reasonable for a doctor to risk jail time and his medical license to suggest something he cannot perform in the country that he lives?

Why would the doctor risk the Tebows going to the authorities to inform them of what he said?

The entire story is built on the premise that a doctor would stick his neck out like this to suggest to an American to have an abortion even though child birth was a very real option (given that she had the kid and all is well). That is a big worm to swallow.

 

Let's assume that the doctor didn't advise it. Let's say he just explained the risks in stark terms, and she took that as an advisement. People are known to interpret conversations in different ways.

How does that in any way undermine the message whatsoever?

 

The point of their message -- as I understand it -- is that some doctor told her to have an abortion, because an abortion would have been the better, easier choice.

Yet, she courageosly chose to have the baby -- who turned out to be a Heisman QB.

What if the doctor didn't put it in those terms? That means she really wan't courageous and didn't really stand up for some principal. It makes a big difference.

 

What if the message from the doctor was implied? What if Pam Tebow knew, as a reasonably intelligent American, that abortion was an option for her? What if the doctor told her the risks and she called her American doctor and he gave her the advice?

Non.

Starter.

Just like Tim Tebow in the NFL.

 

She was told that the baby might be born with defects. They were going ahead with the birth anyway. Should she now apolgize he grew up to be a great athlete?

 

When Sarah Palin did just that, the left universally ridiculed her.

 

Give one example of "the left" ridiculing Sarah Palin for having a differently-abled child, and I'll vote Republican the rest of my life.

 

You mean OT is lying? Nah, he wouldn’t do that.

 

Where were you in 2008? Jupiter? Neptune?

 

Come on, Tony. Bullshit statements like that add nothing to the discussion.