The National Organization for Women (NOW) is showing its true colors with its criticisms of a Super Bowl ad featuring Heisman Trophy winning quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother Pam.
First, a little background on the ad. When Pam Tebow was pregnant with Tim while on a Christian missionary assignment in the Philippines she was diagnosed with a health problem that led doctors to recommend she have an abortion for her own protection. She carried the baby to term against the advice of those doctors eventually giving birth to Tim, quite possibly the most decorated college football player since Jim Thorpe. The commercial, which is being financed by Focus on the Family, shares this story and encourages people to “celebrate family and celebrate life.”
The commercial has led to protests and upheaval from the usual cast of left of center groups claiming to be advocates for women. Predictably, the leader of this pack is NOW and its president Terri O’Neill.
In calling on CBS to ditch the ad, O’Neill begins by saying she respects the private choices made by women like Pam Tebow, but continues to say that she finds the commercial to be “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning.”
Who exactly is offended or demeaned by this story is unclear. Perhaps Miss O’Neill is offended that Pam Tebow didn’t defer to her doctors. Or maybe she just hates the Florida Gators. O'Neill didn't exactly say.
But her next comments reveal the lie that is really at the heart of her philosophy. “That’s not being respectful of other people’s lives,” says O’Neill. “It is offensive to hold one way out as being a superior way over everybody else’s.”
Listen to Miss O’Neill’s words carefully. What she has really said is that there is no such thing as truth. She would sacrifice the very existence of right and wrong to promote her agenda that says anyone (or at least women) should be able to do whatever they please without facing the stigma of having made a moral judgment. The very idea that one choice could be than another choice is offensive.
Consider where her logic takes us. Can we not say that hard work is superior to stealing? If I criticize those who choose to molest children am I being offensive? Are those who rape just making a different but equal choice from those who don’t?
These statements prove conclusively that the leadership of the National Organization for Women is morally bankrupt.
Regardless of how offensive it might be to Miss O’Neill, there is such a thing as right and wrong. Good and evil exist. We cannot divorce ourselves of the moral dimensions of the choices we make no matter how much we may wish those dimensions didn’t exist.
If O’Neill is so offended at the Tebow’s message, then here is what I suggest she do. Let NOW raise the 2.8 million dollars necessary to pay for a Super Bowl ad and put women on television who will tell the story of their decision to have an abortion. If choice is the most sacred of values, let’s give the public a choice between the grief, guilt and heart wrenching agony felt by untold scores of women who have experienced the trauma of abortion and compare that to the heart warming story of Pam Tebow’s unconditional love for her unborn baby who was special to her before he became a football hero.
Perhaps then the world would see the moral bankruptcy of Miss O’Neill’s philosophy and they would choose accordingly.
