tim-tebow-erin-andrewstim tebow and a really hot chicktim_tebow_bikini_girl_pool_tim tebow and hot blondeTim Tebow and his mother will be featured in a Super Bowl commercial. The message will be a polarizing one: Anti-abortion. We tried to avoid the topic this week, but then we stumbled across this New Yorker (!) blog post about it. It deserves attention.

The blogger recounts this tale from Tebow’s father, which was first told in Sports Illustrated:

“When I was out in the mountains in Mindanao, back in ’86, I was showing a film and preaching that night. I was weeping over the millions of babies being [aborted] in America, and I prayed, ‘God, if you give me a son, if you give me Timmy, I’ll raise him to be a preacher.’ ” Not long after, Bob and Pam Tebow conceived their fifth child. It was a very difficult pregnancy. “The placenta was never properly attached, and there was bleeding from the get-go,” Bob recalls. “We thought we’d lost him several times.” Early in the pregnancy Pam contracted amebic dysentery, which briefly put her in a coma. Her doctors, fearful that medications they had given her had damaged the fetus, advised her to abort it. She refused, and on Aug. 14, 1987, Pam delivered a healthy if somewhat scrawny Timothy Richard Tebow.

“All his life, from the moment he could understand, I told him, ‘You’re a miracle baby,’” Bob recalls. “‘God’s got a purpose for you, and at some point I think He’s going to call you to preach.’

“I asked God for a preacher, and he gave me a quarterback.”

It sounds like a line Bob Tebow has been using for years. Can’t you already hear the voiceover being done by Kevin Costner for the CBS movie of the week (over/under: September sweeps, 2013)? A Jonas brother could bulk up and play the role of Tebow. Or perhaps one of those guys in the Twilight films.

Here’s where the author loses us:

There will be a Super Bowl ad about the happy outcome that attends not listening to medical advice. Ignore your doctors, trust in God, and your child, too, can win a Heisman trophy. Will there be empathy in there for women who aren’t ready to risk their lives in order to be given a quarterback?

If so many people are up in arms about Tebow’s commercial, why not pony up the money (or get a group to) for a pro-choice commercial? Next year: Let’s debate the death penalty via commercials at the Super Bowl! 2012: God vs. agnostics!

The real answer, of course, is to mute all commercials. There are no exceptions. Super Bowl or otherwise.