Joy Overbeck
Journalist and Author

The National Organization of Women has a big problem. Since they failed miserably at intimidating CBS Broadcasting into squashing the Tim and Pam Tebo ad on Superbowl Sunday, now 106.5 million Americans, the largest TV audience in US history, have discovered that a decision to have a baby instead of aborting it may result in a gorgeous, accomplished, Christian medical missionary and football genius offspring like Tim Tebo. Legions of women are now wondering, “What if I hadn’t taken the long walk down that cold hallway; would I be looking into the shining face of an incredible child like this?”

Horror of horrors: the next time a young woman has that choice to make, she might, just might, because she saw that Superbowl ad overflowing with family love, she just might make the wrong decision! Because make no mistake, NOW doesn’t want women to choose life. In fact the mortal combat over the commercial has once and for all proved what many have said all along: the only choice that doesn’t draw NOW’s wrath and contempt is the choice to abort. How can NOW call themselves “pro-choice” when they branded the Tebo commercial, which simply describes the personal “choice” of Pam Tebo, as “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning”? Has anyone ever seen them use the same words to condemn the Muslim father in Texas who murdered his two beautiful teen daughters in an “honor killing,” simply because they wanted to date?

Honor killing is apparently honorable in the upside down abortion derangement syndrome world of NOW, while choosing life is so obscenely offensive and demeaning that, like the worse child porn, it must be denied the Constitutional right of freedom of speech. But their argument failed to convince CBS management. And now women out there are thinking: what if other famous and celebrated paragons walk among us because their mothers considered abortion, but in the end chose life? Maybe – Oprah, or Bill Clinton, or Nancy Pelosi, or Denzell Washington or…. Memo to Focus on the Family: think ad series.

In 2008, my article on horse slaughter, "Final Roundup," was published in Denver's 5280 Magazine. (The article won the Colorado Authors League award for Best Adult Article of 2008.)Every year, more than 100,000 of America's horses, 92% of them healthy according to the FDA, are butchered for foreign dinner plates. This abomination has been going on for decades. In late 2007, it seemed things were looking up when the three remaining horse slaughter plants in this country closed due to local outcry and enforcement of existing laws. But this was a hollow victory for horse lovers. Immediately, the "kill buyers" began transporting horses over the border to Mexico, where they are killed in such a hideous and inhumane way that I won't even describe it here.

So now we must urge our Congress people to pass the law that has been cooling its heels in the legislature for four years -- the law that will forbid taking America's horses across her borders to meet a grisly end just so foreigners - mostly in Belgium, France and Japan - can enjoy their horse sirloin. And these people call themselves civilized!