A much-forwarded email describes the circumstances surrounding the precarious birth of Denver Broncos star quarterback Tim Tebow, whose mother, Pam Tebow, was being treated for amoebic dysentery while pregnant. Doctors feared the medication had caused irreversible damage to the fetus and recommended abortion, but Mrs. Tebow refused, later giving birth to a healthy baby boy. Pro-life advocates hail the story as inspirational, while pro-choice advocates question its veracity. Find out why...
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The story has been touched up so much it is untrue, and its purpose is to further promote Pam’s career as an anti abortion campaigner.
She was never ‘urged’ to abort – abortion is illegal in the Philippines, even when the mother’s life is in danger. She was given the facts – before beginning the meds – that they can cause damage to a developing fetus.
She participated in a Focus on the Family ad which totally distorted the original events to serve both her and FF’s agendas – both are anti-choice. FF have a track record of selective and untrue fabrications being used in much of their material to promote their fundamentalist and intolerant agenda. Pam Tebow has an emerging career of the back of her son’s success promoting her own brand of evangelical christianity.
Tim is as much – and no more – a miracle baby than every other baby born.
Tim Tebow is a very talented football player and, from every appearance, a very nice guy as well. He is as much entitled to kneel down and pray on the field as Troy Polamalu is to cross himself when he goes out for a play. But the difference is that I don’t see Troy Polamalu doing ads suggesting (demanding?) that pregnant women with life-threatening complications try faith healing instead. And I’m sick and tired already of the evangelicals hailing Tebow as something akin to the Second Coming (maybe Tom Brady is Judas Iscariot reincarnated). It’s arguable that every birth is a miracle; however, Tebow’s existence is no more (or less) a miracle than any other birth with medical complications. And Tebow might want to be just a little more careful about blending any political agenda in with his sport. Too often, religious-right types really don’t care what they have to say or do when the end justifies the means.
Well i really don’t know what happened to Tim Tebow’s mom but really happy that that had to happen then Tim would of never became such wonderful legend well there you have Tim Tebow ROCKS!!!!
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Ailin Martinez
God Bless
Tim Tebow
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I live in the Philippines, and previously contracted amoebic dysentery prior to or right around the time I became pregnant. In my case, I suffered a miscarriage, but I was very, very ill, and my case had been mismanaged for several months. My doctors informed me that there was a small risk of miscarriage from having my medications administered out of necessity by IV. Even as ill as I was, I was in no danger of lapsing into a coma, as that is a symptom of a case of amoebiasis very far advanced. My doctors never suggested that I have an abortion here in the Philippines, where it is criminal to perform or procure abortions, or anywhere else within traveling distance, as it is also illegal to disseminate or distribute information regarding abortion procedures and abortifacients. Mindanao is certainly a different place from Luzon, but I think this story is nothing but sanctimonious hyperbole.