The Holy Sacrament of Liberals: So Holy That if You Didn't Abort Your Child it is Controversial

University of Florida graduating quarterback and college football superhero Tim Tebow is set to star in an advertisement to be aired by CBS which is stirring up controversy already, even amongst people who haven't viewed the ad or read the transcripts. Tebow, a devout Christian who spent his summers doing missionary work, was part of a difficult pregnancy which threatened his mother's life. His mother chose not to abort Tim and he went on to be one of the best college football players of all time (you have no idea how much it pains me to say that as an LSU fan).

Focus on the Family decided the story would make for a good commercial and CBS felt it met all of the standards it uses in screening such commercials. So now the left is already up in arms. Apparently, an advertisement showing an alternative to abortion is evil and wrong. Maybe they should reconsider the moniker "Pro-Choice" (which has never been what you would think it means). This is how far we've fallen as a society. A story of a child and mother who made it through a difficult pregnancy and became a great success story is a heinous threat to the health and reproductive choices of American women. How about the reproductive choice you made before you got pregnant? But, Mark, you say, how can you be so callous? What about all those abortions resulting from rapes and incest? According to a 2007 study in Time magazine, a grand total of 1.5% of abortions could be attributed to rape or incest. That means 98.5% of abortions were basically a contraceptive choice. Wikipedia has a breakdown (and no, I don't necessarily trust Wikipedia) which shows a staggering 6.1% of abortions are attributed to the health of the mother or the child (called a fetus by those who are politically correct). So we can reasonably estimate that less that ten percent of all abortions involve health or physical/psychic traumas. 820,151 abortions were reported to the Centers for Disease control in 2005. So, being generous to health, physical/psychic trauma abortions, 738,136 children were aborted as a matter of convenience in 2005. Is this really what the Pro-abortion movement is trying to protect?

I don't mean to preach here, but I find it disgusting that this society even has to argue the point. This is reprehensible conduct being paraded around as a fundamental right. The argument is couched in such disingenuous terms that if you don't think about it too hard, it might seem reasonable. And to think, they get offended by someone who didn't get aborted basically saying he's glad he's alive. Pathetic.