If the only perspective you have heard on last week’s coverage of the Susan G. Komen Foundation-Planned Parenthood dustup was from major TV news outlets, then read some of the following articles, as well.
Planned Parenthood and Media Thank Each Other by Mollie Hemingway
The Media’s Abortion Blinders by Ross Douthat
It Isn’t Easy Being Pink by R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
The Pink Ribbon and the Dollar Sign by Russell Moore
Indiana Planned Parenthood exposed giving medical lies to those who come asking questions about their pregnancies. (HT: Challies)
So writes Sally Jenkins today in the Washington Post. Although Jenkins is pro-choice, she writes fairly and intelligently about the hoopla surrounding the Super Bowl Ad starring Pam and Tim Tebow. Here is a taste of Jenkins article:
Tebow’s 30-second ad hasn’t even run yet, but it already has provoked “The National Organization for Women Who Only Think Like Us” to reveal something important about themselves: They aren’t actually “pro-choice” so much as they are pro-abortion. Pam Tebow has a genuine pro-choice story to tell. She got pregnant in 1987, post-Roe v. Wade, and while on a Christian mission in the Philippines, she contracted a tropical ailment. Doctors advised her the pregnancy could be dangerous, but she exercised her freedom of choice and now, 20-some years later, the outcome of that choice is her beauteous Heisman Trophy winner son, a chaste, proselytizing evangelical.
Pam Tebow and her son feel good enough about that choice to want to tell people about it. Only, NOW says they shouldn’t be allowed to. Apparently NOW feels this commercial is an inappropriate message for America to see for 30 seconds, but women in bikinis selling beer is the right one. I would like to meet the genius at NOW who made that decision. On second thought, no, I wouldn’t.
HT: Tim Challies
The following clips contain a debate between Dr. Hadley Arkes, who teaches at Amherst College and Dr. Douglas Kmiec who teaches at Pepperdine. The debate took place at Villanova University as a a part of a conference titled, ”The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Legacy of Abraham Lincoln.”
The content of the debate centers around President Lincoln, Slavery, President Obama, and Abortion. Arkes cannot support Obama because of his consistent denial to protect life in the womb. Kmiec, on the other hand, did support Obama in the election. He explains why in the debate.
Both clips are about an hour long, but are worth your time to listen to.
