Planned Parenthood: Celebrating Families? Do they seriously expect us to buy this crap?
- Friday, February 5, 2010, 6:09
- Battleground Iowa
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By Emily Geiger
So, if Planned Parenthood really wanted to “celebrate” every woman’s decision, then why are they threatening CBS and trying to keep the ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mom off the air during the Super Bowl?
That doesn’t sound like celebrating every woman’s decision to me…. But then again, since when have we ever expected honesty out of Planned Parenthood?
And seriously, Sean James and Al Joyner? Is that the best you’ve got? Obviously nobody in sports that anyone has ever heard wants to go on record in what amounts to a defense of baby killing.
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I wasn’t aware that PlannedParenthood was trying to get the ad pulled or threatening CBS. Could you provide a link please?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583999,00.html
“This organization [Focus on the Family] is extremely intolerant and divisive and pushing an un-American agenda,” said Jehmu Greene, director of the Women’s Media Center, which is coordinating a campaign to force CBS to pull the ad before it airs on Feb. 7.
“Attacks on the ad, which has been seen by only a handful of people, are mounting. The Women’s Media Center is coordinating a campaign with the National Organization for Women and other women’s groups to launch an online petition and letter-writing campaign targeting CBS. Another petition set up on Jan. 22 has garnered over 8,000 signatures.”
The Women’s Media Center is representing several liberal “women’s” groups on this front, and Planned Parenthood is represented on its board of directors.
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/index.php/about-wmc/who-we-are.html
The only problem I have with the ad is that it’s a long time policy of CBS not to run ads about controversial issues during the Super Bowl, and CBS has pretty much blocked any other ad touching on controversial issues during the game.
But over all if Focus on the Family wants to waste 3 million dollars running the ad during the super bowl and CBS is willing to take their money then by all means run it. In the end the ad isn’t going to change anything.
Looks like the Women’s Media Center and the National Organization of Nags only want free speech for themselves and lack tolerance of others’ viewpoints.
Vast: What is controversial about asking moms not to kill their unborn babies. You were once a “fetus”, too.
Now, maybe if we make exceptions for libs, that might be another matter.
Oh, wait, isn’t that what Margaret Sanger set about to do–to eliminate those she considered inferior–namely blacks. This was one evil woman.
Except that a ban on advocacy ads isn’t CBS’s policy anymore and hasn’t been for several years.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/26/AR2010012602116.html
Aww heck, I think commercial time should be open to the highest bidders. Doesn’t matter what the product or the issue. If it’s an “issue” then let it be called political and fall under the wide-open free-speech heading.
Any product that’s legal to be sold can advertise, no exceptions for anyone’s imagined sensibilities, after all, equal does mean equal. Pay the price and you can have the time.
If a group whines and snivels about someone else’s commercial, let em buy opposite time on some other network at a lesser price to present their case.
Doggone TV’s gonna become fun; cigarettes, booze, rubbers, morning-after pills, Fred Phelps, Focus, Jesus Mendez Tijuana Pregnancy Problem Solving Clinic, Joyce Meyer, Pray the Gay Away Spas and Resorts, Real Americans Target Ranges and Clinics, and the list could just grow exponentially.
All legal and equal.
DVFO, No mater how you slice it, abortion is a controversial topic that can drive people to do horrible and ridiculous things. Again, my only problem with the ad is that it appears that CBS is breaking it’s own policies. Other than that, I don’t care if the ad runs. I don’t even watch the Super Bowl anyhow, as I’m not really that into watching a bunch of over muscled men in tight pants bashing each other around over control of an oddly shaped leather ball.
Conservative Demo, The only problem with that argument is that as of right now, neither CBS or any of the other networks are allowing the airing of a counter ad but that is their prerogative.
Scott M, That is contrary to what CBS has told other groups wanting to run controversial ads during the Superbowl.
Also if you read the entire article it says that the changes in policy are recent.
“In 2004, CBS was criticized by many liberal organizations for rejecting an ad by the United Church of Christ highlighting the UCC’s welcoming stance toward gays and others who might feel shunned by more conservative churches.
CBS said Tuesday that, under its new policies, the UCC ad would have been accepted for airing. The network said that it has run ads in the past year or so with divergent views on topics such as the health care overhaul, climate change and energy policy. ”
So, in other words, to cover their butts, they are changing the policy.
Again, more power to them. In the end it won’t change anything.
That “problem” wouldn’t be one if like I began with, ” . . . . . [all] commercial time should be open to the highest bidders. Doesn’t matter what the product or the issue”
We also wouldn’t be subjected to the stupid squabbles like the current one that is inflaming the partisan jerks of each side.
“Doggone, TV’s gonna become fun…….” Condem, with commercials like that it might just be better than the programs they’re running now!
Gimminy, I miss Denny Crane.
Emily you are right on target. These people celebrate the death of children, planned parenthood should be renamed systematic infanticide. They are a part of the eugenics program of the 30’s and 40’s which gave us the Nazi death camps. Life is prescious and we as a nation must defend the unborn. Whether it is the overturning of Roe v Wade or the reeducation of Americans, I deeply appreciate Focus on the Family and the Tebows for what will be a great and true celebration of life during the super bowl..
VV said: Abortion is divisive and can drive people to do terrible things….
Like, oh heck, I dunno, paying someone to stick a tube up inside your body and grind up your unborn child into little parts then suck it all up and flush it down the drain?
I pretty much cannot think of ANYTHING much more terrible than that.
Well I’ll be dipped in pig s _ _ t! (preferrably from an Iowa farm out there in King’s district).
Emily, just this morning I learned that CBS refused to carry a commercial for some gay dating network or somesuch. Is that OK with Emily, or might this fall into the same bad policy area as the complainings from . . . [what did dvfo call them?, National Organization of Nags?) the ones wanting to prevent a commercial?
Quoting my friend DVFO: “Looks like the Women’s Media Center and the National Organization of Nags only want free speech for themselves and lack tolerance of others’ viewpoints.”
Waywardson, fortunately only the woman and her doctor can make those sorts of decisions. However when someone goes and murders a doctor simply because the doctor is doing his job and performing a perfectly legal medical procedure that’s one the most horrible things that the abortion debate causes.