Politics and Culture

The commercial with Tebow will probably make the case that women should choose life because abortion cuts off an enwombed baby's potential. This is an oblique argument, the type made when no consensus exists on the morality of the act itself due to a disagreement over which if any moral authority has provenance over the action, and the parties, as a result, resort to common, often practical arguments.

Other oblique arguments are that torture is wrong because it recruits terrorists, homosexual adoption because it leads to worse grades; that vivisection isn't effective, cutting carbon emmissions will lead to green jobs, and legalizing marijuana will enable us to make stronger rope. I can cite others of varying degrees of sincerity and/or validity.

Not every child will grow up to be a football star and many parents wouldn't care anyways. It would still be wrong to abort even a sickly baby likely to struggle to a 6-second 40 and with an innacurate arm because unborn babies have souls and are innocent, making their killing unjust.

Saying that aborting a baby is murder probably wouldn't go over well with about 45% of the nation because they don't agree with it and another 45% because the Super Bowl should be a match between the AFC and NFC, not the sides in our culture wars. That's my oblique argument against CBS showing it.