Comments | montereybayjane: Choosing the unlikely

montereybayjane

Choosing the unlikely

Feb 01, 2010 08:45

The problem with the Super Bowl ad is not that it exists as a pro-life sentiment. Choose life? Sure, I can get down with that. You want to have a kid, you choose to have one, perfect. Why not? And Focus on the Family pays 20-some odd million to get air time for you to talk about it? Outstanding. No reason not to. Being pro-choice rests on support ( Read more... )

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what_if February 1 2010, 16:58:14 UTC

Well said. I wish I was reading it in an editorial in the NYT. I haven't followed the debate closerly, other to know it is going on, but I definitely hadn't heard that side of it and I feel like it should be part of the discussion.

montereybayjane February 1 2010, 17:52:16 UTC

I think a lot of people have gotten all pissy for stupid reasons. I think it's a little silly to get upset that someone is airing a lifer commercial/commentary even if you're complaining that a pro-choice similarity is expressly not allowed. I think it sucks, sure, but I don't think it matters because I don't think it's any network's responsibility to show both sides of an argument and further, even if it was, I don't think we should care that...really, care that someone gets thirty seconds in front of a ton of people to say they're happy they were born. I don't think this matters and if someone is making a battle of this, they're picking apart the wrong issue ( ... )