NOW tackles Palin over Tebow ad

The National Organization for Women is firing back at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Giant Inflatable Snowman Decorations who blasted the group earlier this week for calling on CBS to pull a Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow.
The ad shows Tebow and his mother Pam discussing her decision not to end a difficult pregnancy in 1987. Pam carried the baby to term against her doctors’ recommendations, and her child grew up to be the Heisman-trophy winning University of Florida quarterback, who many consider the best college football player in a generation.
Palin, a vocal opponent of abortion rights, said Tuesday in a post on her Facebook page that NOW’s opposition to the ad put the group in a “ridiculous situation.”
Palin, who praised NOW for its work calling out “advertisers and networks for airing sexist and demeaning portrayals of women,” wrote that “NOW is looking at the pro-life issue backwards.

“My message to these groups who are inexplicably offended by a pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life message airing during the Super Bowl: please concentrate on empowering women, help with efforts to prevent unexpected pregnancies, stay consistent with your message that for too long women have been made to feel like sex objects in our ‘modern’ culture and that we can expect better in 2010.
“The goal of the Focus on the Family ad is not to empower women. It's to create a climate in which Roe v. Wade can be overturned,” O’Neill said. “There are always going to be women who need abortions. In this country, one in three women will have an abortion.”
“Focus on the Family has cynically set it up so they can say anyone who disagrees with airing this ad is disrespecting one woman and her choice. NOW respects every woman's right to plan her own family and insists our laws do the same,” said O’Neill.