NOW president Terry O’Neill said it glorified violence against women. “I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it,” she said. “That’s what comes across to me even more strongly than the anti-abortion message. I myself am a survivor of domestic violence, and I don’t find it charming. I think CBS should be ashamed of itself.”

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Wow. Is she serious? These chicks just don’t know when to quit. Speaking of “violence against women”, how about Betty White getting leveled into a puddle of mud in the Snickers commercial which, according to USA Today’s “Ad Meter”, was the most popular ad of the night? … No? Nothing? Way to be consistent, Ms. O’Neill.

Here’s the first Focus on the Family ad that aired during the Super Bowl pre-game show – very classy:

And here is the ad that aired during the first quarter of the game. LOL, think N.O.W. will start complaining that the ad promotes violence against women? Well done!:

I know what you’re thinking and, yes, that’s all there was to it. Certainly not worth the time and effort pro-aborts spent condemning it and and demanding that it be rejected. In fact, if they would have just kept their mouths shut hardly anyone would have known what Pam was talking about when she said “he almost didn’t make it into this world.” There was no mention of a “difficult pregnancy”, abortion or even choosing life.

I’ve seen reaction from some pro-lifers were underwhelmed, even disappointed, after finally seeing the ad they’ve been passionately defending for the last two weeks. But, really, what did you expect in 30 seconds on national television? If it had been even the slightest bit more overtly “pro-life” it would have never been given air-time. Besides, often subtlety is the best way to win friends and influence people, especially with a subject as emotional and divisive as abortion.

Also, we cannot underestimate the significance of what happened before the ad even aired. For two weeks the hypocrisy of “choice” was on full display and the public was exposed to a true, uplifting story of courage, hope and, above all, self sacrifice. A much needed message for our current culture of selfishness and death. Honestly, you just cannot buy the kind of publicity we’ve seen given to this ad and it’s message. So, thank you N.O.W., NARAL and others for collectively overreacting to what might otherwise have largely gone unnoticed. Hopefully some seeds were planted.

For those who were unaware of the “contoversy” prior to seeing the commercial and for whom the message was a little too subtle, hopefully some were directed, as was the ad’s design, to the Focus on the Family website, which features a more in-depth interview with Tim’s parents Bob and Pam and their choice for life.

That’s what I think anyway. What are your thoughts?

This, of course, reminds me of Cosby in possibly one of the greatest stand-up acts of all time. We all know that children are a blessing, but, let’s face it, often it doesn’t feel that way during the actual birthing process:

You can download audio of “Natural Childbirth” on Amazon or on iTunes

The new ad also features star quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam. It was filmed in Orlando last month at the same time as the group’s controversial — though yet unseen — in-game ad.

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Although Focus on the Family won’t reveal its ads’ details, CEO Jim Daly says the original ad was rejected by CBS. In it, Pam Tebow, who was advised by a doctor to have an abortion for medical reasons when pregnant with her son, said, “Both of our lives were at risk.”

“They felt that was too much,” he says. “So we dropped the line. We didn’t fight them.” The word “abortion” is never used.

The ad is “an open discussion on the sanctity of human life — not just the issue of abortion,” Daly says. It was made for less than $100,000 with “a bit of humor in it — in fitting with the Super Bowl theme.”

Did you catch that? The word abortion is never used – in either ad! I have suspected this all along as, I’m sure, the mere mention of the word abortion in any ad, whatever the context, is probably automatic grounds for refusal. And this is why the pro-aborts who have been making such a huge deal out of the ad are going to end up looking really silly (as if they don’t already) once everyone has a chance to finally see it. Pro-choice Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins says it best:

If the pro-choice stance is so precarious that a story about someone who chose to carry a risky pregnancy to term undermines it, then CBS is not the problem.

Neither, I would ad, is Focus on the Family.

Britain’s first iPhone baby is born after couple tried four years to conceive

A woman who was considering IVF treatment has given birth to a baby girl after using an iPhone application to become pregnant.

After four years of struggling to conceive, Lena Bryce and partner Dudley had nearly given up hope of having children, until she heard about the fertility app and downloaded it to her iPhone.

The 30-year-old entered her body temperature daily and the app calculated when she would be most fertile.

After just two months of using the tecnology she fell pregnant.

Last Friday, a delighted Lena gave birth to 6lb 12ozs Lola at Glasgow Southern General Hospital on the exact date the app had predicted.

Lena said she had been considering IVF and adoption, but thought of other ideas when Dudley bought her an iPhone for her 30th birthday.

‘I typed in “get pregnant” and downloaded five apps,’ the delighted mother said.

‘The Free Menstrual Calendar was easiest to use so I stuck with it and in tow [sic] months I was pregnant.

Click on the image above to check out the Free Menstrual Calendar. If that is not a “sign of the times” I don’t know what is.

Related video: New Hope for Infertility – NaProTechnology vs. IVF

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Schneeberger points out that an OK reporter told him, “You guys could have done a commercial for apple pie and these groups still would have protested you.” That’s true. Some of these radical pro-aborts would have thrown a fit over the ad regardless of what it actually said for the simple fact that it is produced by a pro-life organization, period.

Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood, which did not take part in the call for CBS censorship like its other pro-abort counterparts, seems to have tried to beat FOTF at their own game by having two professional athletes talk about “respecting all women’s choices”. Too bad no one has ever heard of these guys. Interesting that they chose two black athletes to make their point as black children are quickly becoming an “Endangered Species” thanks to abortion.

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Right now, abortion as a cultural conversation is barely a whisper. Pam Tebow wants to tell people she chose life and there’s outrage. People are simply not allowed to discuss abortion in America. When someone holds up a sign of a dismembered fetus in front of an abortion clinic people are outraged at the man holding the sign while ignoring the fact that abortionists are actually pulling apart real babies just inside the building. America is experiencing a silent holocaust. And let’s face it, silence only helps the status quo. Darkness is the friend of the oppressor.

Read the rest of his post.

[T]he presence of divine love within conjugal union enriches our understanding of freedom. God’s presence in spousal love brings home to us that freedom cannot exist apart from grateful recognition of the original gift; freedom flourishes only when we realize that the whole of our existence in a free gift. Recall the scene in Dante’s Purtatorio when nightfall temporarily suspends the poet’s ascent of Mount Purgatory. To continue the path up the mountainside is to gain freedom, but after dark descends one can only walk either around the mountain or down it, but not up it. The upward path requires daylight, which symbolizes the divine love that makes freedom possible. It’s only in the liberating light of God’s love that we can outgrow the narrow confines of the self and climb the mountain of love for God and neighbor toward the crown that awaits us at its summit. (p. 76)

This passage reminds me of a recent column by Christopher West on Humanae Vitae and True Sexual Freedom – check it out!

Christian liberty is freedom from ego and a binding to God in all things – yes, even our sexuality!

Related post: Spice Up Your Sex Life: Invite God!

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