A pro-life ad, produced by Focus on the Family which aired during the Super Bowl, has many pro-choice and radical feminists up in arms. The ad tells the story of Pam Tebow, who, despite pressure to abort her unborn son, chose to carry him to term. That baby boy grew up to be college football phenomenon Tim Tebow—the first college sophomore to win the Heisman Trophy and the first college quarterback to both rush and pass for 20 touchdowns in a single season.
The standard script of many pro-abortion and so-called feminist organizations regarding this ad is that it is an affront to women’s rights, and that such examples oversimplify the issue. Planned Parenthood—the nation’s largest abortion provider—has even released a video featuring former NFL player Sean James and Olympic gold medalist Al Joyner responding to the ad even before it had aired. At one point, Mr. James states, “We’re working for a day when every woman will be valued.” Apparently, that does not include the thousands of little girls who will never get the chance to mature into “women of value” because their lives will be snuffed out through abortion.
In reality, what’s really stoking this controversy is the abortion industry’s desire to hide the truth behind their agenda: racism. Tim Tebow is the perfect foil for such bigoted fodder. He is a white, home-schooled Christian boy poised for great success in life—the left’s stereotype of the pro-life movement.
It is no accident that of all the pro-abortion celebrities available, Planned Parenthood chose two black athletes, the first of which (James) is well-known for his involvement in promoting “positive role models for…black athletes,” and the second of which (Joyner) was born to a teenage mother. This is intended to perpetuate the myth that Planned Parenthood and their ilk are more in tune with the needs and desires of minority cultures than pro-lifers. Ironic, since this comes from an organization that was founded by one of the most virulent racists in history: Margaret Sanger. She was the one who wanted the organization’s motto to be, “To Breed a Race of Thoroughbreds”; she was the one who bragged in her autobiography about speaking to the Klu Klux Klan because they understood the problem that “negroes” represented; and she is the one who thought that eugenics was the only logical way to perpetuate the human race.
To help demonstrate this premise, consider a very similar situation from just five years ago, when rapper Nick Cannon released his moving single, “Can I Live?” Like the Tebow ad, this song told the true and very personal story of Mr. Cannon’s mother, whose own pregnancy was a textbook argument for termination according to that industry’s “logic.” She was only 17-years-old and a single, minority woman without the necessary means needed to raise a child. Mr. Cannon’s music video shows him hugging his mother and saying, “I love life. I love my mother for giving me life…Thanks for listening, Mama thanks for listening.” Similar to the Tebows, her gift of love and sacrifice by choosing life was met with great reward. Not only did it give young Mr. Cannon the chance at life, but he grew up to enjoy success as a rapper, actor and now TV and radio broadcaster.
But Mr. Cannon’s song/video goes much further than the Tebow ad, which Focus on the Family has said does not even contain the word “abortion.” Mr. Cannon’s song is a no-holds-barred study of abortion and its true nature, including images of doctors sporting scalpels; a woman laying on an abortion clinic table, holding her stomach as she peers at her unborn son on the ultrasound screen; and heart-wrenching lyrics such as, “Hopefully you’ll make the right decision, And don’t go through with the knife incision…Hopping off da bus when the rain is pouring, What you want? Morning sickness or the sickness of mourning?”
Unlike the Tebows, Mr. Cannon and his mother weren’t targeted by “anticipatory response” ads like the aforementioned video containing Mr. James and Mr. Joyner. Incredibly, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer article from August 2, 2005, representatives from Planned Parenthood punted when asked about the “Can I Live?” video release, saying they were not familiar with Mr. Cannon’s song or video despite its prevalence in the media.
Planned Parenthood has revealed its racist underbelly. Attacking the Tebows is easy because it perpetuates the stereotypes and myths specifically created by the abortion industry to cover up their minority-targeted agenda. But if the industry attacked Mr. Cannon for his video, which debuted at number one on BET, their real motives would have quickly been exposed in the crossfire. Therefore, it was much safer to give Mr. Cannon a pass.
Even though Planned Parenthood eventually put Ms. Sanger out to pasture because her loose lips threatened their agenda, they never abandoned their goal of racial genocide. For decades now, the majority of abortion clinics are in minority neighborhoods with large black populations. So effective was this strategy that in January 2003, the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that blacks were no longer the largest minority in the United States. This distinction now belongs to the Hispanic community.
Moreover, Planned Parenthood just opened a new abortion facility in Houston, Texas—the largest of its kind in the nation. Not only does the facility dispense abortifacient contraceptives, chemical abortion drugs and offer standard surgical abortions, it also has an entire floor dedicated to late-term abortions. And the neighborhood where it resides just happens to have one of the largest Hispanic populations in the city.
Clearly, the spirit of Margaret Sanger lives on.
