Every time I make the decision to blog something that might be the least bit offensive I take a chance of alienating regular followers and visitors. For women's choice, I can not be silent.
Much has been written about tomorrow's anti-choice Super Bowl ad financed by Focus on the Family and featuring Florida QB Tim Tebow and his mother. I posted Planned Parenthood's response video here. CBS is making a conscious decision to air an anti-choice advertisement. My question is what makes Tim Tebow's mother so special that she is allowed the opportunity to make a difficult choice, but she can't show the same respect to other adult women to make their own choices?
I recently read a summay on the evolution of women's clinics in Birmingham. In 1973, following the Roe v Wade decision, abortions were performed in UAB's Ambulatory Center, complete with medical staff and social workers in a safe, clean environment. By January 1998, a bomb at a Bimingham Women's Clinic killed an off duty police officer and critically injured a nurse. From coat hangers to safe hospitals to bombings. Is this what we really want for our mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, lovers, and girlfriends?
Women understand difficult decisions. We respect Mrs. Tebow's choices. In turn, we ask Mrs. Tebow and others to show the same respect to other women who may find themselves in similar situations. To reiterate Planned Parenthood's message: Trust Women. ALL women.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
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The difference is that Mrs. Tebow believes abortion is murder. Your argument is like saying you choose not to murder a jerk that bugs you incessantly, but you believe since you made that choice you cannot and will not take away rights of others to choose to murder jerks.
Sorry, but your arguments don't work.
Not all choices are equal. People choose NOT to do things that is harmful to others, like murder, rape, assault, etc. Does that mean since they made their choices they should also respect others' rights to make different choices in these regards? No.
To argue that Mrs. Tebow have to grant rights to other women to what she feels is murdering their offspring amounts to nothing more than emotional blackmail without substance.
Suppose you have children (don't know if you do or not), and you love them so you don't choose to do what Susan Smith did with hers. Does that mean you should respect the right of Smith to choose to do what she did? And should you respect Smith for what she did? After all, it's her choice.
None of us actually believe in regards to all choices, that just because we choose not to do them, we should respect rights of others to do them. Or otherwise, we would be advocating for rights of others to commit the most heinous crimes, on grounds that while we don't do them and see them as wrong, we are for rights of others to choose differently.
Anonymous - Thank you for your comment. Abortion is a legal medical procedure. The examples you listed are crimes.
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