My husband, a former college football player and stalwart fan still, has been telling me tales about Tim Tebow ever since the young man played his debut season at the University of Florida. Not only was this kid a super-great champion of the gridiron, proclaimed my totally jock husband, he is the kind of young man who stands upon his faith with uncommon strength and pride.
The first time I saw Tim for myself and spotted his now famous use of Bible verses in his under-eye paint, I must admit I was wowed. Admittedly, I was more impressed by Tim’s willingness to stand proud on his faith than on his prowess with a football, but even I must admit that winning the Heisman Trophy is no small feat.
So, now Tim has played his final season at the University of Florida, having brought his family, his friends and his school much reason for pride. And he has chosen, along with his mother, to make a profound revelation to the world at large regarding his even being alive. His mother, advised to abort for health reasons, chose instead to bring Tim’s life to fruition. And what a life Tim has had so far.
It’s a strong, irrepressible argument for the very real fact that no mother ever knows, in advance, what the child she and her male partner have conceived, may one day become.
But this is just a scientific, logical fact. Every single person walking this earth today is a former fetus, who was once totally reliant on the beneficence of his or her mother’s womb. We were all of us once embryos, once fetuses and once infants, not the least bit capable of surviving without care-giving. Anyone who can read a middle-school biology book knows this much about human beings.
And no life is predetermined. No one has the omnipotence to gauge what possibilities each and every human life holds. Not mother, not father, not government, not society.
These are irrefutable facts, not controversies.
Yet, so-called feminist groups and “pro-choice” advocates around the country are throwing a nationally broadcast hissy fit over CBS’ decision to air this “controversial” statement by Tim Tebow and his mother.
What’s the problem?
Could the problem for pro-abortion interests be that the term, “pro-choice,” keeps the minds of society and all potential mothers on the very real fact that in the instance of abortion, there is a human being who is given no choice whatsoever. That human being is the child. Through no action of his own, he has been conceived. Through the very real “choice” made by both his mother and his father, he is procreated.
From day one, this embryo, this child, has his own DNA, his own unique place in the human family. This is the fact that gets drowned out by the proponents’ arguments for abortion on demand.
And it is this primordial fact that is obscured, quite successfully, by the “pro-choice” position on abortion.
The real problem with the Tim Tebow ad has nothing to do with football, nothing to do with the legalities of abortion on demand and nothing to do with all the people now living, walking, talking breathing.
It has everything to do with the value of each and every human being, the unknown possibilities of every conceived child and the profound weight of the decision that mothers and fathers made when they chose to conceive.
In the end, abortion proponents are forced to focus only on the mother’s financial, physical and emotional well-being. If they, even for one minute, stop to consider the non-choice of another human being (not to mention fathers), all their arguments to women suddenly fall on deaf ears.
Tim Tebow, with quite astounding football prowess, is one child who was allowed to live. And grow and prosper. And succeed. To the delight of his parents and his family, friends and football fans.
Since 1973, 51 million Americans just like him were not given this privilege. They were killed by abortionists before they had the chance to show what they could be.
And that is a message that the abortion lobby cannot dare let come to light.
Therein lies the problem with the Tebow ad.
Such a pity. Football would probably have survived without the grace of Tim Tebow. Americans need to start asking whether our country can continue to survive the ravages of killing our offspring before they get a chance to give us their gifts.
Yes, to conceive a child is always a choice. Except in the instance of rape, a woman chooses every time a new life is created. Whether or not to end that life, which has been created, is only half a choice. The human being, who is killed, deprived of his right to continue living, is the other half of that choice.
And that’s the half that no abortion proponent can talk about.
Tim Tebow stands as living proof that abortion is a choice too far. Only when women can believe that their baby is nothing but a “blog of fetal tissue” can they see the half-choice of abortion through the rose-colored glasses supplied by the abortion lobby.
We are all former fetuses. Bravo to Tim Tebow and his mom for reminding us of that irrefutable fact.