It's curious that feminist groups want CBS to pull a planned Super Bowl ad that will feature Tim Tebow and his mother.
These groups didn't raise Cain about Super Bowl commercials featuring Victoria's Secret models or a guy who could make a woman's clothes disappear.
But they are furious that the University of Florida football star and his mother are expected to present a pro-life message in a commercial funded by Focus on the Family, a conservative Christian group.
Terry O'Neill, the president of the National Organization for Women, calls the ad "extraordinarily offensive and demeaning" as well as "not being respectful."
Like O'Neill, we have not seen the commercial, but it is expected to be a straightforward account by Pam Tebow, who became ill during a mission trip to the Philippines in 1987 and was advised by doctors to abort her pregnancy. She refused, recovered and gave birth to the future Heisman Trophy winner.
It's an honest, powerful story about the how one woman confronted a difficult decision.
The story also underscores that abortion extinguishes a life - something pro-abortion forces hate to acknowledge.
They would rather the public not know Tebow owes his life to his mother's decision.
Regardless of how one feels about abortion, Focus on the Family should be free to present its message during the Super Bowl - just as paying companies are free to hawk beer, snack foods, pharmaceuticals and computer games.
If the pro-abortion activists want to present a contrasting message, let them do so.
But CBS should stand firm and not be intimidated by a pro-choice crowd that has little regard for the choices of others.
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