{"id":233239,"date":"2010-01-26T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=90421"},"modified":"2010-01-26T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T23:43:00","slug":"cbs-defends-tebow-super-bowl-abortion-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/233239","title":{"rendered":"CBS Defends Tebow Super Bowl Abortion Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"

CBS is responding to the furor over a planned Super Bowl ad featuring college football star Tim Tebow.<\/p>\n

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The ad is funded by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family. It is expected to recount the story of Pam Tebow’s pregnancy in 1987. After falling ill, she ignored doctors’ recommendation to abort her fifth child and gave birth to the University of Florida star, a Heisman Trophy winner.<\/p>\n

Despite controversy, CBS is standing by the ad. The network says it has received both critical and supportive emails since women’s rights groups began a protest campaign against the ad’s pro-life message on Monday. The Women’s Media Center and over 30 other liberal and women’s advocacy groups sent a letter to CBS, the TV network to air the Super Bowl on Feb. 7, saying in part: “… we urge you to immediately cancel this ad and refuse any other advertisement promoting Focus on the Family’s agenda.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“We are calling on CBS to stick to their policy of not airing controversial advocacy ads … and this is clearly a controversial ad,” Jehmu Greene, the president of the Women’s Media Center, told Reuters.<\/p>\n

CBS execs claim they’ve eased its restrictions on advocacy ads and will consider any that are “responsibly produced” for the few open spots remaining for next month’s broadcast.<\/p>\n

“We have for some time moderated our approach to advocacy submissions after it became apparent that our stance did not reflect public sentiment or industry norms on the issue,” <\/em>CBS spokesman Dana McClintock said Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CBS is responding to the furor over a planned Super Bowl ad featuring college football star Tim Tebow. The ad is funded by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family. It is expected to recount the story of Pam Tebow’s pregnancy in 1987. After falling ill, she ignored doctors’ recommendation to abort her fifth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}