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Mommy, Where Do Abortions Come From?

By The Daily Dish
Feb 2 2010, 4:02 AM ET

Michelle Cottle, as a "protective parent," wishes the Tebow ad wouldn't air:

[I]f many Americans indeed hold to this notion of the Super Bowl as more-or-less family-friendly, then it really isn’t an appropriate venue for any ad that talks about abortionor any other seriously sexual topic. Not date rape. Not child porn. Not international sex trafficking. Grading on a curve, a split-second peek at [Janet Jackson]’s boob, while utterly tasteless, isn’t that hard to wave off with kids in the room; an ad that specifically aims to provoke discussion by focusing, no matter how cheerily, on a woman’s high-stakes decision about whether or not to terminate her pregnancy opens up a darker, more complicated can of worms.



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