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From:	Millie (75.107.206.117)
Subject:	A different look at the Tebow ad
Date:	January 30, 2010 at 3:17 pm PST

Is it a true story? I really had no opinion on this topic until now. If the story is false, the public should know. The RW propaganda has gone too far, speaking on the subject of ab0rtion in general. In fact, last year a woman told me that she would not even terminate in the case of a TUBAL PREGNANCY. That is a true story.

As Joe Jervis points out, we’ve been hearing the prop#ganda for weeks now about how Tim Tebow’s mother was confronted with a difficult pregnancy, encouraged to have an ab0rtion, and made the heroic and courageous choice to carry the pregnancy to term, so that her son Tim would one day sport Bible verses in his eyeblack and have a really hard time at NFL tryouts. As you all know, the prop%ganda has become even fiercer as Focus on the Family has spent $2.5 million on an anti-choice ad to be aired during the Super Bowl featuring Tebow’s story.

Yeah, well, Gloria Allred begs to differ:

In her exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com, Allred slams the ad and CBS’s decision to air it, pointing out factual inconsistencies with Pam’s story. One glaring one is the fact that the act of ab0rtion is totally illegal in the majority Catholic country of the Philippines – under all circumstances including rape and incest, and even without a provision in the circumstance that the mother’s life is in danger. The law has been in effect since 1930.

Allred says she believes it an impossible scenario to believe that {Filipino} doctors would {have} ever suggested ab0rtion as a viable option for Tebow in the first place. And when you learn that physicians and midwives who perform ab0rtions in the Philippines face six years in prison, and may have their licenses suspended or revoked, and that women who receive ab0rtions – no matter the reason – may be punished with imprisonment for two to six years, it’s easy to see why.

Gloria Allred is threatening to sue CBS if they run the Tebow ad, saying if the ad fails to disclose that ab0rtions were illegal at the time Tebow made her “choice”, "I intend to file a formal complaint of misleading advertising with those federal commissions.”

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