Tebow's Defensive
Line: 50,000 and Counting
NOW and Company Are on Wrong Side of America, New York Times
Today Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser announced
that over 50,000 Americans have submitted comments of support to
football star Tim Tebow through the Susan B. Anthony List website,
www.blockhardfortebow.com.
The
comments support the Tebow family's
decision to share their story in Focus on the Family's pro-life Super
Bowl advertisement. The National Organization for Women (NOW) is
leading feminist groups in a campaign demanding CBS pull the ad from
its Super Bowl schedule.
"NOW and company are on the wrong side of American public opinion,"
said Dannenfelser. "In only four days, over fifty thousand Americans
have sent messages of support to the Tebow family on
www.blockhardfortebow.com. The outcry of national support for Tim
Tebow's pro-life leadership illustrates the strength of the growing
American pro-life majority."
The Susan B. Anthony List-sponsored website, www.blockhardfortebow.com,
was launched late Wednesday, January 27, 2010. Already 50,000 visitors
to the site sent personal comments of support to Tebow. Visitors can
also view a short ESPN video about Tebow. Over the same period, the
abortion-rights group EMILY's List has collected only 16,000 anti-CBS
petition signatures.
"NOW's campaign against CBS, the Tebow family and Focus on the Family
is going nowhere fast," said Dannenfelser. "Old guard feminists like
Kate Michelman and Frances Kissling are struggling to defend their
opposition to the ad, and their desperate arguments ring hollow. The
'pro-choice' label has worn out its usefulness – it is an empty
platitude for the pain women feel when they've made the abortion
choice. Arguments that abortion is somehow as liberating and
self-sacrificing as Pam Tebow's decision to choose life in the face of
great personal pain just don't stand the straight face test. Such
callous attitudes grate on the conscience and defy
experience."
On Sunday, January 31, 2010, Kate Michelman and Frances Kissling
published a Washington Post commentary arguing, "abortion is as tough
and courageous a decision as is the decision to continue a
pregnancy."
The New York Times editorialized in favor of CBS' decision to run the
Tebow Ad on Sunday, January 31, 2010, arguing that NOW's "protest is
puzzling and dismaying." Editors went on to criticize the
campaign's
"lame attempt to portray the ad as life-threatening," and argued that
"CBS was right to change its policy of rejecting paid advocacy
commercials from groups other than political candidates."
Contact: Joy Yearout
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