(Even a pro-choice columnist disagrees with critics of Tebow's ad)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020102067.html?utm_source=YS+Update&utm_campaign=130851ffa4-YSU_2_2_2010&utm_medium=email&mc_cid=130851ffa4&mc_eid=5ec3192977
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You make some great points. :) As feminist and prochoice as I am, and as much as I think the ad is fairly misleading, I will support free speech.
I love what you said about Tebow as a person and an athlete, and I totally agree.
My only objection is in the media coverage of the commercial; I happen to think that it's a fairly critical bit of information that abortion has been illegal in the Phillipines since 1930, and that it is incredibly unlikely that Tebow's mother was actually offered the option of terminating the pregnancy. The reason I think this is an important detail is NOT because I think she should have made a different choice; I completely agree that she did practice the heart and soul of choice in this situation.
What I think it's important to know is that it's actually highly unlikely that she was really GIVEN that choice. And that is a real crime, regardless of what she decided.
:)
I like your blog and your writing, and I really love people who are able to make me think hard about my entrenched ideas. Even though the issue of choice has become critically important to me (a late term abortion DID save my life, and I advocate regularly for keeping that option legal), I've learned more about choice from those that oppose it then I expected to. I've grown far more accepting of other viewpoints as a result.
:)
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