The Latest Superbowl Ad Controversy
Most years, the most controversial thing about the Superbowl are the ads (or perhaps a wardrobe malfunction) so in a way this year is nothing new. But unlike most previous years, where the controversy surrounds the overt sexuality of the ads, this year it’s the opposite: This year’s controversial Superbowl ad advocates celebration of family and life.
Tim Tebow will be featured in a 30 second advertisement during Superbowl XLIV. In the ad (which no one in the public has seen yet) Tebow will speak about how his mother, Pam, was advised to have an abortion when she was pregnant with Tim, due to medical complications. Pam decided to continue to term, and Tim was born. Today, Tim is a Heisman Trophy-winning American football quarterback for the Florida Gators. The theme of the ad will be “Celebrate family, celebrate life” and will not specifically mention abortion.
This ad has some pro-choice organizations upset. There has been pressure on CBS, the television network showing the Superbowl and which approved the commercial, to not run it. The National Organization of Women called the ad “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning.”
But columnist Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post, herself a pro-choice advocate, responds that “if there is any demeaning here, it’s coming from NOW, via the suggestion that these aren’t real questions, and that we as a Super Bowl audience are too stupid or too disinterested to handle them on game day.” She notes that “If the pro-choice stance is so precarious that a story about someone who chose to carry a risky pregnancy to term undermines it, then CBS is not the problem.” (Source: Washington Post)
Regardless of your stance on the pro-life/pro-choice issue, what do you think about this ad controversy? Do you think the controversy is justified? Should CBS run the ad, and why? Let us know what you think.
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It should be aired. These people who are pro-choice should not be upset with someone voicing their views about opting out of abortions. It’s a choice. Isn’t that what they are fighting for? The thing is to be truly free to make a choice is to truly see the complete story about both sides of the picture. I too at 35 years of age became pregnant w/o being married and was supposedly a christian woman. I struggled with the idea of aborting my child. I am so glad I didn’t. She is the best thing that ever happened to me. I hear the same story as mine over and over again no matter what the circumstances.
Well said, Deanna.
Pam Tebow exercised her choice to keep her baby. Her situation was of a medical concern and she still chose life.
If the real issue was addressed, having unprotected sex with someone you have not chosen to marry, there would be a lot less people having to make such a hard choice in the first place. I am saddened that a woman would have to make such a decision in her lifetime.
My heart goes out to all those who must live with the choice of not keeping a baby, please know that God is merciful and he still loves each woman who has chosen an abortion. He is waiting for you to let Him carry burdens such as these.
I,too was given a choice in 1967, not to terminate my baby but give her up for adoption. I’m so thankful that I didn’t and that my parents accepted my decision. She is now 42 years old, and has given me two beautiful granddaughters to kiss and hold. I pray for those having to make a choice. Hopefully it will be His choice!
“Regardless of your stance on the pro-life/pro-choice issue”
What?!! Isn’t this a Christian website? All Christians should be pro-life. To be pro-choice is to be in direct opposition to what the Bible says about life and origins of life.