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The National Organization for Women on Monday called on CBS to yank a pro-life Super Bowl ad featuring former Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow, and it started a campaign to demand that authorities withdraw Tebow’s Heisman Trophy and pull his National Championship ring.
The ad, sponsored by Colorado-based Focus on the Family, highlights Pam Tebow’s high-risk pregnancy and her decision to give birth to Tim despite a medical recommendation to abort the fetus.
The women’s rights group said Mrs. Tebow’s decision, 23 years ago, “set in motion a cascade of events ending in this tragic Super Bowl TV advertisement.”
“If Pam Tebow had exercised her freedom to choose abortion,” said an unnamed NOW official, “then millions of women would have been spared the agony of watching 30 seconds of brutal advocacy designed, ultimately, to extract their most precious right from the U.S. Constitution.”
“These women, in many cases, don’t have a choice,” she said. “They can’t just leave the room during commercial breaks, or they would miss crucial televised information about beer, snack food and pickup truck choices. And even if they could change channels, they would risk submitting themselves to ads of much lower quality, done by agencies with questionable professional credentials.”
To combat the oppressive effects of the pro-life Super Bowl ad, the unnamed official said NOW would start a new anti-Tebow Web site, to create a groundswell of support for stripping him of the Heisman and his championship ring.
“We got a really good price on the Web site hosting from Super Bowl sponsor GoDaddy.com,” the NOW source said. “They’re actually hosting it for free, in exchange for NOW President Terry O’Neill’s personal appearance in a future GoDaddy ad.”
Examiner columnist Scott Ott is editor in chief of ScrappleFace.com, the world’s leading family-friendly news satire source.
