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Planned Parenthood, Athletes Respond to Tebow Super Bowl Ad
"My mom showed me that women are strong and wise," James says in the advertisement. "She taught me that only women can make the best decisions about their health and their future."
In a statement accompanying the video, Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards said Tebow's story was "compelling," but added that every woman must be able to make important medical decisions for herself and her family.
"The Tebow story underlines what Planned Parenthood has learned from the millions of women doctors and nurses at its health centers have cared for over nearly a century," Richards' statement read. "Women take decisions about their health very seriously. They consider their doctors' advice, they talk with their loved ones and people they trust, including religious leaders, and they carefully weigh all considerations before making the best decision for themselves and their families."
Joyner, meanwhile, said he trusts his daughter to "take care of herself" during the Planned Parenthood video.
"My daughter will always be my little girl," Joyner says. "But I am proud everyday as I watch her grow up to be her own person, a smart, confident young woman. I trust her to take care of herself. We celebrate families by supporting our mothers, by supporting our daughters. By trusting women."
Richards said Focus on the Family, the organization that paid for Tebow's 30-second advertisement to run on Sunday, is "far outside the mainstream" of American life.
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The choice of men of color to carry their pro-abortion message is consistent with Planned Parenthood’s legacy of racism and eugenics championed by its founder Margaret Sanger.
I THINK THAT PLANNED PARENTHOOD COMMENT IS THE AMERICAN COMMENT….FOCUS ON THE FAMILY IS ULTRA RIGHT AND VERY MUCH OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM. I WOULD THINK THAT DR.DOBSON AND HIS STAFF COULD HAVE FOUND A BETTER WAY TO SPEND THREE MILLION BUCKS.A NEW PLANE MAYBE?
You are so right Robert. The fact that Planned Parenthood was founded by and continues to be run by eugenicists and racists is not something they want the public to hear. It’s too bad Joyner didn’t do a little research before he made a fool of himself.
I think its strange that the three anti-choice commentators here are all MEN. As they say, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. Why don’t you fellas just worry about your wives’ reproductive parts and stop concerning yourselves with the vaginas and uteri of other women.
Well, as a woman, I support these men and their opinion. I thought Planned Parenthood was pro-choice? That they feel the need to provide a counter to this message of choice just proves that they are not, in fact, pro-choice but pro-abortion. They would’ve done best just to stay out of it…
That’s the POINT, Rachel. Pam Tebow had a CHOICE. She chose to bring her pregnancy to term. However, she and her ilk wish to deprive others of having that same choice. Forcing people to have babies is just as sick as forcing people to abort them. Making it illegal kills women. And Planned Parenthood does a lot more than abortions. They offer counseling, STD testing, birth control, and much needed education. Also, as a woman, I continue to urge you to worry about your own vagina, and let other people worry about theirs.
These men probably got one of their girl friends knocked up. So of course they’d support Planed Parenthood as that way they don’t have to give child support.
Hey Bigrig..O-Bunghole just spent 2.5 million for SUPER BOWL commercials. LOL
Yoya- My vagina is doing just fine, thank you. How on earth would I ever have control over it if there weren’t vagina warriors like you out there? All joking aside, is there anything in the commercial that says, “down with Roe v. Wade,” or are you making assumptions? As far as I’ve heard, the commercial will be Pam Tebow explaining how, in the face of scary odds, she had a choice, and the choice she made was to have her baby. I don’t see anything wrong with that. In fact, I’d think that pro-“choice” people would be a lot more happy with a commercial like that than some of the other “Abortion stops a beating heart,” commercials.
So, I ask, are you opposed to the message just because someone made a choice that didn’t end in abortion? Or is it the messenger? Trying to understand the “outrage” here.
OMG WE CAN’T EVEN ENJOY A POSITIVE STORY ANY MORE WE HAVE TO BLUR & DISRUPT.
TO KILL A BABY OR LET IT LIVE? HMMMMM
I AM GLAD MY MOM CHOSE LIFE!
I’M JUST SAYIN’
I’m a liberal and I stand for freedom of speech. As long as you agree with me.
I’m a liberal and I support the preservation of life. As long as it’s an endangered eagle egg or swimming polar bear. If it’s human, destroy it. I still haven’t finished my masters…
I’m a liberal and I approve this message.
Look everybody has the right to choose…like the right to hate Tebow for encouraging women to keep their babies. That jerk….I choose to hate him and his baby loving friends.
I am pro-choice for women. Women have the CHOICE whether to have sex or not. They have the CHOICE whether to use birth control and condoms….seems like women have a lot of CHOICES, and when they make ones that inconvenience them no big deal they can just have an abortion.
Thanks to the Tebows for standing against the mainstream!
The thought of anyone, male or female, being allowed to decide if life is life or not is one of the most arrogant things mankind has fooled themselves with. A woman has always had the right to do with her body as she sees fit. But to say a woman gets to decide if a life is allowed to exist just because it is living inside her is crazy. PEOPLE sat down and decided “at this point it is alive and at this point it is not”. Those people that decided this nor the laws that you can argue give you the right to snuff out a life will not protect a woman the day she stands in fron of all mighty God. And you can say you don’t believe in Jesus all you want. It will do you the same good it will do me saying I don’t believe in gravity and jumping off a clif.
Richards is a filthy slimeball who makes his living from scared young girls and frightened desperate women! Few abortions are performed for health reasons!
The two so-called “athletes” apparently spent too much time playing children’s games and not enough developing their brains!!
Hey Mr. Joyner….you seem to forget the fact that you are alive because your mom didnt abort you….such little things escape the most “worldly” people. At any rate…Pro-Choice IS correct. No one should be forced to do anything that their conscience wouldnt allow for. That being said, NO ONE should ever make the decision to KILL a child.
Richards is a filthy slimeball who makes his living from scared young girls and frightened desparate women! Few abortions are performed for health reasons!
The two so-called “athletes” apparently spent too much time playing children’s games and not enough developing their brains!!
Mr. Joyner said:
“My daughter will always be my little girl,” Joyner says. “But I am proud everyday as I watch her grow up to be her own person, a smart, confident young woman. I trust her to take care of herself. We celebrate families by supporting our mothers, by supporting our daughters. By trusting women.”
But what if his wife had decided (because it is only her decision, not his), to abort his daughter?
Yoya said:
“Forcing people to have babies is just as sick as forcing people to abort them. Making it illegal kills women.”
How about all the deaths of the very same women you state, that abortions protect women from death, that happen by these very same legal abortions?
Or how about the number of women that become permanently infertile due to previous abortion?
Now I’m not being vitriolic in this discussion, I’m just listing some points to discuss, are any of those in favor of abortion on demand, willing to discuss these points?
Abortion is a woman’s right! Period!
Stephen:
Yes, there are women that become infertile from multiple abortions, or in rare instances die (more did so when it was illegal). Of course women can die from giving birth as well.
That is why being Pro-choice is about helping women make informed decisions about their bodies. Not every woman is the same, and not every woman will make the right decision for them. Still, it is their decision to make.
I see nothing wrong with the Tebrow ad myself. I’m glad it worked out for his mother. However, it does not work out for everyone. The decision to carry and have a child is not nor can it be based on one-size-fits-all solutions. There are people that regret their abortions, true. There are also people that don’t regret their abortions. However, if an ad showed a woman that wished she had had an abortion, would it even air? I think some Pro-choicers are upset by the ad, because the rebuttal to the Pro-life ad is not something that TV ads care not to show—the fact that some women hated becoming mothers.
It’s an ugly truth, but its a reality. And like most ugly truths, it can’t be aired on TV because it would seem too negative, and a “downer”. Abortion is rarely a decision made happily—its a tough one to make, but its made out of necessity. Few people put down their beloved family pet because they want to—they do it because they have to. Abortion is similar—many women don’t want to kill a fetus, but feel they have to. Many of these fetuses are grossly deformed—allowing them to live would be a gross disservice to them.
And let’s not forget that half of all children put up for adoption never get adopted—a little statistic that Pro-lifers like to gloss over.
I am proud of Tim Tebow and his mother. It seems these days it’s only okay to speak out if it’s for gay marriage or for a woman right to an abortion. There is nothing wrong with the other side standing up and speaking also. Remember freedom of speech goes both ways.