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February 5, 2010

The Choice for Tebow

Posted by The MaryHunter at February 5, 2010 9:00 AM

Strange coincidence: on the same day that we learned that abstinence programs actually can be effective, self-proclaimed pro-choice sports writer Sally Jenkins bitch-slapped the National Organization for Women and other critics of the Tim Tebow Super Bowl ad.

Tebow's 30-second ad hasn't even run yet, but it already has provoked "The National Organization for Women Who Only Think Like Us" to reveal something important about themselves: They aren't actually "pro-choice" so much as they are pro-abortion.

This is something observers on the right already knew, but perhaps this incident will de-crust the eyes of just a few more wafflers who are looking for a good excuse to burn their NOW membership cards, instead of their bras.

Pam Tebow and her son feel good enough about that choice to want to tell people about it. Only, NOW says they shouldn't be allowed to. Apparently NOW feels this commercial is an inappropriate message for America to see for 30 seconds, but women in bikinis selling beer is the right one.

The Super Bowl is not some reality-free escape zone. Tebow himself is an inescapable fact: Abortion doesn't just involve serious issues of life, but of potential lives, Heisman trophy winners, scientists, doctors, artists, inventors, Little Leaguers -- who would never come to be if their birth mothers had not wrestled with the stakes and chosen to carry those lives to term.

So: you can be a feminist and also either (a) a brainless progressive douchebag like Joy Behar; or (b) a thoughtful, open-minded citizen willing to question and debate, like Sally Jenkins. Yet another choice.