Posted by Kyle-Anne Shiver Feb 2nd 2010 at 10:44 am in Abortion, Featured Story, Sports, Supreme CourtThe Huffington Post is reporting that everybody’s favorite, too-classy-for-words feminist attorney, Gloria Allred, has written a protest letter to CBS over their decision to run the Tim Tebow celebrate-life ad during this year’s Superbowl.
Ms. Allred’s complaint? That the ad (which she has not seen) will imply or state outright “false” and “misleading information.” You see, Ms. Allred contends that since Mrs. Tebow was living in the Philippines (as a Christian missionary) at the time she became pregnant with Tim, and that since Philippine law prohibits abortion, then she would not have – could not have – been advised by her doctor to have an abortion for health reasons.
Now, I’m no lawyer but I am a woman. And every woman knows full well that women were getting counseled to have abortions for health reasons before abortion became legal in the United States. In fact, doctors were performing D&Cs for women who were pregnant without a single soul outside the operating room being the wiser. Even before Roe, doctors were advising an expectant mother about health problems and risks to her pre-born child. It would surely take a fool to believe that doctors in the Philippines are so different.
Presumably, since Ms. Allred is herself a woman of mature age, she is bound to know that an American citizen, who became pregnant during the late 1980s could very easily have been advised that the pregnancy was in danger, due to prescription drugs ingested by the mother. An American citizen returning to the US from the Philippines to have an abortion – fully legal then – would have been as easy as hopping on a jet plane. Is Ms. Allred suggesting that Mrs. Tebow could not have done this if she had wanted to do it? Surely not. That would be stupid.
Considering the gargantuan expense of a 30-second Super Bowl ad, said to be from $2.5 to $3 million, I would assume – just from a common sense standpoint – that it would be impossible for Mrs. Tebow to add all the details about the medical advice she was given. Nor would it be possible for her to give the outline of Philippine abortion law, which Ms. Allred and the ladies at the Women’s Equal Rights and Legal Defense Fund seem to think is “required” by truth in advertising law.
Nevertheless, Ms. Allred has written a threatening letter to CBS, stating her intention to submit a complaint to the FCC if the ad runs without a summary of Philippine abortion law.
Yes, feminists will do everything they can to prevent the other side of the half-choice of abortion from coming to light.
In this one, though, they appear to be jumping the abortion-rights shark.
If I were prone to gratuitous sympathy, I would feel quite sorry for these women. But I’m not so prone. And I don’t feel sorry for them.
Because of them, every single day, more innocent children are killed, while growing, snugly nestled in their mothers’ wombs. Because of these women, another huge hunk of America’s future is thrown out with the medical waste at the end of every killing day at the abortion mills.
Let’s face it. The younger generations are turning against abortion in droves. As living, breathing survivors of Roe, they realize more than their elders ever could, that but for the grace of God and a good mother, they themselves would have been the medical waste. It’s a sobering reality that feminists have created for our young. Survivors guilt? Plenty.
So, it’s not hard to understand Ms. Allred’s desperation.
Is it?
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