Super Bowl (tm) ad by Tim Tivo

[MS Fowler]

You have probably heard about the pro-life ad by Tim Tivo and his mom. She was advised to terminate her pregnancy,but made the decision to carry it to term. As a result, Tim who may be the best college football player ever, was born.
Yet, to hear the outcry from some portions of the left, you'd think the ad was advocating outlawing all abortion.
Fairly typical. In my experience the Left favors freedon speech ONLY when they agree with it. All, other speech is to be limited, regulated, restricted or made illegal.

So what's your take?
Is even this speech to be allowed?

[Txjake]

it goes to show that if your mom is not pro life, then you wont be......

[MS Fowler]

Originally Posted by Txjake

it goes to show that if your mom is not pro life, then you wont be......

to be, or not to be, THAT is the question.

[johnjzjz]

Originally Posted by MS Fowler

You have probably heard about the pro-life ad by Tim Tivo and his mom. She was advised to terminate her pregnancy,but made the decision to carry it to term. As a result, Tim who may be the best college football player ever, was born.
Yet, to hear the outcry from some portions of the left, you'd think the ad was advocating outlawing all abortion.
Fairly typical. In my experience the Left favors freedon speech ONLY when they agree with it. All, other speech is to be limited, regulated, restricted or made illegal.

So what's your take?
Is even this speech to be allowed?

logic is the one thing an opposing view has no comeback

this post will be ignored as no real argument can be made by a rational thinking person

but then again this is the OD

[kerry]

Complaint as I understand it is that CBS rejected pro-gay rights ads in the past but is accepting this ad. Seems like a reasonable complaint to me.

In the interviews that I have seen Tebow seems to think that the only possible response a child to could have to a mother who did what his mother did, is to think it was the right decision. I know people in exactly the same situation as Tim Tebow, who think their mother should have gotten an abortion.

[Graplr]

Originally Posted by MS Fowler

Yet, to hear the outcry from some portions of the left, you'd think the ad was advocating outlawing all abortion.

So what then is the ad advocating? And what is its purpose if it is not against abortion?

Originally Posted by MS Fowler

Fairly typical. In my experience the Left favors freedon speech ONLY when they agree with it. All, other speech is to be limited, regulated, restricted or made illegal.

I dont' think that is your EXPERIENCE, I think it is your spin.

Originally Posted by MS Fowler

So what's your take?
Is even this speech to be allowed?

Of course it is to be allowed. Quite a spendy way to get their message across though.

[kerry]

Originally Posted by johnjzjz

logic is the one thing an opposing view has no comeback

this post will be ignored as no real argument can be made by a rational thinking person

but then again this is the OD

Can there be logic without grammar?

[johnjzjz]

Originally Posted by kerry

Complaint as I understand it is that CBS rejected pro-gay rights ads in the past but is accepting this ad. Seems like a reasonable complaint to me.

In the interviews that I have seen Tebow seems to think that the only possible response a child to could have to a mother who did what his mother did, is to think it was the right decision. I know people in exactly the same situation as Tim Tebow, who think their mother should have gotten an abortion.

I know people in exactly the same situation as Tim Tebow, who think their mother should have gotten an abortion

if those people you know FRIENDS ???? who think that way tell their doctor they could get a nice soft room to live in -- jz

[kerry]

Originally Posted by johnjzjz

I know people in exactly the same situation as Tim Tebow, who think their mother should have gotten an abortion

if those people you know FRIENDS ???? who think that way tell their doctor they could get a nice soft room to live in -- jz

Sanity is not defined by self-interest and it's really bad form for religious people to be spending millions of dollars on ads implying that it is.

[davidmash]

From what I have read the doctors recommended she have an abortion because they felt her life may be placed in jeopardy due to medication she had taken. The fact that Tim became a good football player is irrelevant. Besides, it's not as if he became a scientist, teacher, aid worker or someone who actually contributes to society. He is a athlete, big deal. But again it's irralevant. He could have just as easily become a burden on society. Too guilt a mother into having a child by way of saying you are killing the next Albert Einstein is irresponsible. The mother should be given all the options

[davidmash]

Originally Posted by johnjzjz

logic is the one thing an opposing view has no comeback

this post will be ignored as no real argument can be made by a rational thinking person

but then again this is the OD

No, it's ignored for several reasons, lack of a real argument is not one of them.

[kerry]

One additional point. If the religious right were to have it's way, Tebo's mother would not be in a position to be praised for carrying a dangerous pregnancy to term because she would not have a choice to do otherwise.

[JollyRoger]

Originally Posted by MS Fowler

You have probably heard about the pro-life ad by Tim Tivo and his mom. She was advised to terminate her pregnancy,but made the decision to carry it to term. As a result, Tim who may be the best college football player ever, was born.
Yet, to hear the outcry from some portions of the left, you'd think the ad was advocating outlawing all abortion.
Fairly typical. In my experience the Left favors freedon speech ONLY when they agree with it. All, other speech is to be limited, regulated, restricted or made illegal.

So what's your take?
Is even this speech to be allowed?

My take is you are confusing freedom of speech with disagreement. Someone who is disagreeing with you is not trying to limit your speech. I have not heard any "out cry on the left", the first I heard of this was this morning on CNN. I have heard exactly no one, and I read lots of lefty blogs, say anything at all like you claim, demanding that this individual's right to say what he wants to say be curtailed, I would like to see just one link to prove me wrong. Until then, this looks like some marketing department's blowing up some puffery to push some issue dejour to drum up the Superbowl. I find the pro-life position inherently fascist, I could care less what the little fascist has to say. I'm sure if men could get pregnant if a pregnancy meant an end to his football career, he'd be a screaming pro-choice fanantic.

[MS Fowler]

Originally Posted by kerry

One additional point. If the religious right were to have it's way, Tebo's mother would not be in a position to be praised for carrying a dangerous pregnancy to term because she would not have a choice to do otherwise.

Red Herring.
AFAIK, the ad does not promote taking away anyone's rights. It simply tells the other side of the story.

[JollyRoger]

Originally Posted by davidmash

From what I have read the doctors recommended she have an abortion because they felt her life may be placed in jeopardy due to medication she had taken. The fact that Tim became a good football player is irrelevant. Besides, it's not as if he became a scientist, teacher, aid worker or someone who actually contributes to society. He is a athlete, big deal. But again it's irralevant. He could have just as easily become a burden on society. Too guilt a mother into having a child by way of saying you are killing the next Albert Einstein is irresponsible. The mother should be given all the options

Hey, I'm glad they made that choice and it worked out great for them. But they don't want others to have that choice, they want to tell people what their choices are going to be. Like I said, fascist.