Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad

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Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad
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Mon, 01-25-2010 - 1:33pm

And email I received from Care2.  I will boycott the Super Bowl should they show Focus on the Family's ad.  I'm very disappointed in CBS.

In the past, CBS has denied other organizations, like MoveOn.org and United Church of Christ, the chance to get their word out during the Superbowl because the network considered their messages to be too controversial. But it seems its definition of "controversial" has changed. CBS approved an ad by the ultra-conservative group Focus on the Family, attacking a woman's right to choose.

Demand that CBS pull this controversial and disrespectful ad from the Superbowl line-up >>


The Superbowl is the most-watched television program in the country -- a prime opportunity for anti-choice groups to broadcast their idea that a woman doesn't have the right to make decisions about her own body. What's worse is CBS has no plans to run a pro-choice ad to balance both sides of the issue.


CBS's decision to run the anti-choice ad is biased, unfair and unethical. Tell CBS to cancel the Superbowl ad from Focus on the Family >>






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Registered: 01-24-2007
Sat, 01-30-2010 - 3:51pm

but also for the umpteenth time, you seem to be reading into it that cbs was refusing ads because they were too controversial for society, when in acutality they were too controversial for their pocket book.

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Registered: 03-30-2007
Sat, 01-30-2010 - 4:03pm

I am very Pro -Choice. I've had 3 children. Abortion was never something that I would have considered for my self. I don't want to force a woman to carry a child that isn't wanted or could end the Mothers life. That being said, I will watch the Super Bowl. There are a certain amount of people that will watch no matter what. The advertiser know this. There are people that would Never-ever watch the game or even football.

There are a lot of things on TV that I find offensive. Starting with The Simpsons. I tried to keep my son's from watching it, but they would just go to a friends house and watch it anyway. So we made a deal. They could watch it upstairs and I didn't want to hear it, or about it.

I am in no way trying to change anyones mind. I guess I've been around long enough to know that advertisements are trying to sway you to buy what they are selling. I can't stand those Go daddy Ads. But they are there, I usually take a potty break when they come on.

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Registered: 03-23-2003
Sat, 01-30-2010 - 4:11pm

And for the last time, I've already said that I understand that.


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Registered: 08-30-2002
Sat, 01-30-2010 - 8:11pm

***Yeah, that seems to be the implication. Sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but I'm very pro-choice, yet never considered having an abortion, so much so that I refused amniocentesis both times because no matter what I wasn't having an abortion.***


Me too. Plus, I was a single mom. I remember telling my partner he had a choice. He could be a part of the childs life or not, but I was keeping it. He needed to decide if he was in, or out, and then he needed to decide to be in, and stay in it's life, or get out and stay out.



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Registered: 12-16-2009
Sat, 01-30-2010 - 11:13pm

~I just feel we all should have a choice, either way. Does that make any sense?~

I'm not really following you, but yvw re: how recent it's been that women had much of a choice in North America. Re: the OP, it's still entirely illegal where she was pregnant way back when.

~I would have preferred remaining in bed on a blustery morning like it is here....brrrr.~

Understood, I'm Canadian :)

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Registered: 12-16-2009
Sat, 01-30-2010 - 11:16pm

~ But it's a tough decision for someone to willingly kill another human being, even if it's still in the womb. She, nor I, could do it.~

I'm gathering that she'd never go on hormonal birth control then (one function of which also ends life)?

Just curious.

Kate

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Registered: 12-16-2009
Sat, 01-30-2010 - 11:19pm

~Abortion was never something that I would have considered for my self.~

It wasn't something that I ever thought I'd consider, either, until I had to abort due to medical emergency.

~I don't want to force a woman...life.~

Me, either.

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Registered: 12-16-2009
Sat, 01-30-2010 - 11:20pm

~Why, then, are they allowing an ad with a very controversial subject this time??? ~

I think maybe their advertising revenue is down, and they've changed the policy.

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Registered: 12-16-2009
Sat, 01-30-2010 - 11:28pm

It wasn't really a consideration for me until it was medically indicated. I'd have also considered it if I were ever to become pregnant from rape.

Re: other ways of ending life, if I was able to become pregnant via my partner I may have gone on hormonal birth control though.

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Registered: 10-28-2009
Sat, 01-30-2010 - 11:38pm

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Understood, and I feel the same way. In my case, I had very easy pregnancies (besides being in the "advanced maternal age" category, lol), so I was never faced with a situation like yours. We had tried to conceive for ten years before my first successful pregnancy, so abortion was the furthest thing from my mind. I might have felt differently had I been a teenager, unmarried, etc., been raped, or some other awful situation. I'm glad I never had to make a decision like that, but I won't ever condemn someone else who does.

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