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The Tebow Ad: Top Quotes

By Robyn Broyles, February 07, 2010 09:20



The pro-life Tebow ad is causing an uproar! Here are some of my favorite over-the-top quotes:

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The Los Angeles Times, in an editorial supporting the Tebow ad:

It's obviously reckless to imply that women should risk their own lives for the sake of a fetus....

Is it reckless to imply that women, or men for that matter, should risk their lives for the sake of their children? That emergency workers should risk their lives for the sake of others? Why does the fetus deserve lesser consideration? Well, because to be pro-choice (and the editorial hastily asserts the Times' pro-choice stance, to keep its social-liberal virtue from doubt), you can't consider fetuses as "others," as in other people. Their lives are not valuable.*

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Richard Dawkins bashing Tebow in the Washington Post:

I gather that Tim Tebow is extremely good at football. That's just as well, for he certainly isn't very good at thinking. Perhaps the fact that he was home schooled by missionary parents is to blame.

Nice that he threw in that ad hominem attack against Tim Tebow's parents at the end. Reading this whole screed is a great chance to do penance. The reader is subjected to endless insults, gross factual errors (such as the assertion that fetuses do not feel fear and pain like animals do), and straw-man "logic." 

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Atheist R. Elisabeth Cornwell, also in the Washington Post:

[The ad] will not be based on a reasoned discussion of the issues surrounding abortion, rather it will be an emotional appeal meant to equate a fetus with a fully-grown Heisman-trophy winner.... It is the standard anti-choice sucker punch, and I regard it as utterly misguided if not actively dishonest.

Clearly Dr. Cornwell doesn't "get it." Equating a fetus with a football star, in terms of human rights, is not misguided and dishonest; it is exactly the point. The pro-life position also equates the human rights of a poor, gang-banging minority youth with those of the Queen of England. It equates the human rights of an aging man with advanced Alzheimer's disease with those of a precocious 19-year-old college graduate.  The idea underlying the pro-life position is that the mere fact of being a living human organism confers full suite of human rights, including the right to live.

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Jimmy Kimmel in a silly pro-choice ad:

They don't all turn out like Tim Tebow.

How this serves as a justification for killing fetuses—they might become antisocial thirty-somethings—escapes reason.

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NARAL's lame plan for opposing the Tebow ad's message:

Instead of watching Focus on the Family's ad, for 30 seconds, just focus on… something else.

Put your fingers in your ears and holler, "LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU." And just like Tinkerbell, if you refuse to believe in him, Tim Tebow will just disappear!

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*Yes, in any pregnancy, the needs of mother and baby should always be balanced, with the understanding that if mama dies, baby dies anyway. Baby's well-being is not less important than mama's, but it's not more important either.

I'll end with one final thought: GEAUX SAINTS!

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