Point missed on Super Bowl ad

This is in response to Susan Estrich's Jan. 29 article about the Focus On The Family's Super Bowl ad featuring Pam and Tim Tebow. She misses the point.

This ad has everything to do with the problems women facing unwanted pregnancies have. It's about being against abortion no matter what the situation. It's about valuing life - all life. People like her want everyone to be "pro-choice" and I believe women do have the right to choose - whether to get pregnant or not. A woman makes that "choice" the moment she gets intimate with a man without birth control measures.

In the extremely rare cases where the pregnancy is the result of a rape, that life a woman is carrying is innocent of any part in that crime and should not be sentenced to the death penalty.

You want to deter teenage pregnancies? Educate them more and make it illegal for them to obtain an abortion. Make them live with their "choice," whether they keep the baby or put it up for adoption, and not make it easy for them to pretend it never happened and to go off and do it again.

I will tell you that every woman I know who has had an abortion regrets it later in life. I have never met one that said, "Gee, I'm so glad I had an abortion."

So, the ad isn't what is going to make women who have made "the painful choice of abortion feel bad," it is the choice that will do it. Focus On The Family's effort to make everyone more aware of the real "choices" is in no way "deceptive and ultimately cruel" but actually lifesaving to both mother and child.

Those who don't want to watch the ad, like Estrich, can change the channel or, as she said, go to the bathroom if they so choose.

Suzy Sitarski

Batavia