January 2010

Update: Captain Ed says:

“Expect to see this kind of hysterical criticism reach a crescendo when the ad airs, and then a quick deflation afterward. It’s just another form of advertising, after all, but instead of a new beer or bar of soap, it advertises faith in a personal and indisputable manner. Personal witness is the most powerful form of testimony that there is, and the most effective … which, again, is why we see the reaction that just the idea of it generates.”

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By now, most readers know my “radical” views on abortion. I believe an unborn baby should live, even if conceived during rape or incest. I don’t understand how the baby becomes less human because his mother was raped or had sex with a close relative (consensual or non).

No doubt, the act in which the baby was conceived affects the mother’s feelings about him. But when it comes to the baby’s right to live, it doesn’t change a thing.

Pro-life readers have asked me variations of, “What if the mother’s life is danger? What if she has other children to care for and she dies giving birth to this baby?”

I believe such a scenario is so rare, it’s not even worth arguing over. A particular woman may be at a higher risk of health problems because of a pregnancy, but as far as the pregnancy killing her? In 1810, perhaps, but in 2010, it’s a stretch. Regardless, I can’t qualify my position on abortion based on “life of the mother” arguments.

Most women kill the baby because they don’t want the baby.

The doctor tending to the mother of University of Florida’s Heisman trophy-winning quarterback Tim Tebow advised her to kill him. Medication used to treat dysentery caused placental abruption. The doctor thought the baby would be stillborn, anyway, but Tebow’s mother chose to give him a chance to live.

And he did.

America will see the homeschooled Tim Tebow (who wears “John 3:16” on his eyeblack) and his mother during the Super Bowl next month. They’ll deliver a pro-life message in a commercial sponsored by Focus on the Family. Naturally, pro-aborts are having a collective hissy fit:

“Shut up and play ball!”

This country needs more young Christian men like Tebow, men who stand for what’s right and refuse to cave to peer pressure. Young people struggling to live the Christian life (yes, Christians do struggle!) could use more high-profile Christians bucking the system and risking ridicule for God’s glory.

If Tebow decides to go public with a sexually-abstinent-until-marriage message, even better.