The Patriot Post® · An Anti-American Ad?

Each year, the Super Bowl features the best of the best squaring off to determine a champion. We’re talking about the ads, of course.

Beer companies and stock traders usually dominate, but this year, it’s Focus on the Family that’s generating the pre-game buzz. The Christian organization has purchased airtime for an ad featuring University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, who is an outspoken Christian.

What many people don’t know, but will after the Super Bowl, is that the Heisman Trophy-winning two-time college football national champ almost wasn’t born. He will be in an ad telling his story. GOPUSA’s Bobby Eberle sums up the controversy:

During a mission trip, an infection led doctors to recommend that Pam Tebow have an abortion to avoid the risk of her own death during childbirth. She chose life, and now her story will be told in the form of a Super Bowl ad. Rather than celebrating the ad as a “success” story, some so-called women’s groups are blasting the ad and urging CBS to ban it.

Furthermore, according to Fox News, “critics suggest [the ad] could lead to anti-abortion violence, even though none of them have seen it.”

Jehmu Greene, director of the Women’s Media Center, a group trying to force CBS to pull the ad before it airs on Feb. 7., warned that Focus on the Family “is extremely intolerant and divisive and pushing an un-American agenda.” Choosing to give birth to a baby and then telling people about it is “intolerant and divisive” and “anti-American”? That’s leftist “tolerance” for you.

Abortion is legal thanks to a Supreme Court decision taking away the right of states to determine the issue for themselves – that system of federalism set up by the Founding Fathers but destroyed, piece by piece, by actions such as those taken by the Court. That legality is not in danger. So instead of ranting about how dangerous the pro-life movement is, perhaps Ms. Greene could put her energies into advocating adoption, a real solution to unwanted pregnancies. But that choice isn’t pro-choice enough for these people. The only choice they’re for is abortion.

On the other hand, we’re thankful for young men like Tim Tebow. “I know some people won’t agree with it, but I think they can at least respect that I stand up for what I believe,” he said. “[T]hat’s the reason I’m here, because my mom was a very courageous woman. So any way that I could help, I would do it.”