Feb 17 2010

Tackling the SuperBowl ad controversy – UPDATE!

Category: abortion,media,societyharmonicminer @ 9:29 am

UPDATE!  See the rebuttal ad at the bottom of the original post.

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The discussion before the ad was run:

And, in case you missed it, the ad:

You decide.

But it seems clear to me that “pro-choice” still doesn’t mean much more than “pro-abortion.”

NOW thinks that CBS shouldn’t have run the ad because “it might make a woman who had an abortion feel bad”.

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UPDATE!  It would seem that NOW has made a rebuttal ad to the Focus on the Family ad.  Here it is:

Many thanks to commenter Bob for directing my attention to this.

7 Responses to “Tackling the SuperBowl ad controversy – UPDATE!”

  1. Melody says:

    I found the part where Rick asks Terri O’Neill why the pro-baorts don’t just make a reciprocal ad, featuring a woman who made the opposite choice of Pam Tebow and air that, to be quite instructive. Terri changes the subject instead of answering the question, a typical liberal avoidance technique.

    Here would be the scenario: Jane Dough appears on the screen, glamourously attired, sitting behind her corner office CEO desk. With a lovely smile on her face she talks about the difficult decision she made 20 years ago to abort the baby her doctor told her would be born with medical issues so severe it would take all of the financial and emotional resources she and her husband had to care for this needy child. Her other children would have suffered losing the attention and financial resources that have lifted the family to the level of economic and social status they enjoy today. Enter the husband and perfect, college educated, well dressed children who all say, “Thanks Mom.”

    Wouldn’t this ad play just as well? If not, why not?

  2. Melody says:

    oops, should read ‘pro-aborts’.

  3. Bob says:

    Interesting thought experiment. It will never happen though because the whole pro-choice (FWIW I find it helpful to refer to people I disagree with on their own terms) movement is not based on encouraging abortions, but keeping as many options open as possible for crisis pregnancies. A conceivable ad would probably feature a woman expressing the relief she experienced over realizing she had options beyond giving birth to and keeping a child from a former crisis pregnancy. I can imagine her invoking the whole “I’m so thankful I live in a country where I have the right to choose what I do with my body. Please do not take that right away from me.” Or at least something along those lines.

  4. Melody says:

    I was featuring more of a reciprocal idea to the original ad. Additionally, the idea of even doing an ad like you suggest was completely ignored by Ms. Dannenfelser. Here’s why; we all know that “choosing what I do with my body” means killing an innocent child. The ‘not saying it out loud’ or refering to it ‘on their own terms’ doesn’t change the truth that we all know – regardless of which side we are on. My point is this, they couldn’t run ANY ad at all because the contrast would be so overwhelming that they would look awful – and they know it. It reminds me of the Nazi’s refering to “the Jewish question”. Everyone knew that meant killing Jews, but to come right out and say so doesn’t sound good. Of course millions of folks turned a blind eye and did so successfully beacause they could plead some sort of plausible ignorance.

    What made the Focus ad so damnably tough on the ‘pro-choice’ crowd was their complete inability to counter it. I would love to see one where the surviving child has physical and or mental challenges, or the mother is single or something like that. Maybe next year?

  5. Melody says:

    Bob, I just read your comment again and thought of the ramifications of an ad such as you suggest. If the Mother actually showed that she kept a child from a crisis pregnancy yet was thankful that she could have chosen to abort him it would make her seem like somebody you wouldn’t want for a Mum. She’s keeping her options open to do-in the next kid. It would be a tough sell in Peoria. The smartest thing the ‘pro-choice’ crowd could have done would to have been to ignore the whole ad. It would have gone by unnoticed. Thankfully they didn’t.

  6. Melody says:

    Bob, thanks, that is so funny!

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