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Pam Tebow’s ad (found at HotAir, here) was adorable.  Perhaps she could have been a bit clearer about the circumstances of Tim’s birth, for the sake of Americans who aren’t aware of the circumstances and aren’t likely to remember the ad well enough to look at Focus on the Family’s website.

The beauty of this ad was that it gave a very real face to the victims of abortion.  Pro-choicers work very hard to ensure that we never see nor sympathise with the other person in a crisis pregnancy situation.  Both before and after abortion, there is only the pregnant woman’s face is there for the world to see, only she is capable of telling her story, and it’s impossible to know how things would have turned out for the child.  Even the “anti-choice” rhetoric is an attempt to ignore the child’s very existence.

Pam Tebow’s ad changed that.  The “blob of cells” is a loving, happy, successful young adult.  That “choice” is a Heisman trophy winner, a reminder that we all started our lives in the womb, and evidence that abortion in the face of a crisis pregnancy is the abandonment of hope.  Her last line - “You’re not as tough as I am” - bears witness to the strength of women and to the reality that killing one’s unborn child is the coward’s way out.

Finally, Neil has some great Tebow thoughts and links in his newest Roundup.