My Vote for Best Pro-life Super Bowl Ad: Google’s Parisian Love Story

By Troy Newman

Although it was no game changer I believe the best family-friendly and cutting-edge Super Bowl commercial was done by Google. The Tim Tebow ad was good but like many things Super Bowl related, it didn’t live up to all the pre-game hype. Its message was so subtle that many may have missed the point.

All good advertising must mirror everyday circumstances. And who hasn’t used Google to make travel plans, find restaurants, or define an unknown word? But Google’s ad went a step further than just random searches; it told a love story that surprised me by its overt pro-life message.

Watch the ad below.

With the popular Google search engine as the sole backdrop to the story, a man looks to Paris as place to go to school, and by way of an Internet search, he finds a café near the famous Louvre. A French girl tells him he is cute, but of course the expression of amore must first be sent through Google for the English conversion. But the language of love is not lost in translation.

After a quick Internet search for chocolates and poetry, the long distance relationship culminates with wedding in a French church – yes church!

But wait! There’s more.

After a proper courtship, and a Christian wedding, the Internet surfer looks for a way to assemble a baby crib, and the commercial ends with the quick cooing of a newborn baby.

Earth shattering? Ground-breaking?

Not hardly. But that is what I liked about it. Google was not trying to forge a new path of morality for the world. It wasn’t two openly gay parakeets seeking a sordid love triangle with a mutant osprey. There was no wardrobe malfunction. There was no controversy. The ad reflected reality for most of the world. Two kids fall in love, get married, and have a baby.

Yet Focus on the Family was a target of endless (and baseless) hysteria from the National Organization of Woman and all other the militant pro-abortion, pro-gay groups. Perhaps there was a grand conspiracy by Focus on the Family to draw the collective fire on the pro-life Tim Tebow ad, then do a quarterback-sneak and pass the ball off to Google.

Or maybe not.

I think the Google ad is borne of a society that is tired of pushing the morality envelope and echoes the desire of most people for life to be normal and without the leftist drama. Boys and girls will fall in love, get married, and have a baby, which is the way God designed it.

And what could be more pro-life than that?

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Super Day for Life At Super Bowl

Miami, FL – The Truth Truck hit the streets of Miami on Super Bowl Sunday as throngs of people partied along the city’s palm-lined avenues.

For several weeks, the Truth Truck has rocked South Florida, showing images of aborted babies and directing viewers to the web site www.AbortionIsAnObamanation.com.

Last weekend, the Truth Truck circled the Pro-Bowl venue, which boasted the highest attendance in NFL history. Over the next week, the Truth Truck navigated the congested streets of Miami, seeking out the large crowds of tourists in town to celebrate the nation’s most-watched sporting event, sometime crawling through massive traffic snarls at only about 2 miles per hour. This gave onlookers time to contemplate the message and the plight of the preborn.

With the focus of so many on the Tim Tebow ads sponsored by Focus on the Family, the Truth Truck was especially relevant.

“In all, it was a super day for life,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.

Check out the Focus on the Family ads. Click this link for the more serious pre-game ad. Click this link for the more humerous ad.

Next weekend the Truth Truck is off to the Daytona 500, a NASCAR event attended by thousands of people every year.

“We go where the crowds are because that is where we can most effectively reach the most people using the fewest resources,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “We are trying to change the hearts and minds of the American people and help create a society that will ultimately reject the abortion mentality and abolish it forever. In order for abortion to become an unthinkable act, it must become an unavoidable issue.”

Please consider making a donation to Operation Rescue today to keep the Truth Trucks rolling. Your gift of just $60 will fill our gas tank and help us reach thousands of people with the truth about abortion.

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    Botched Abortion Leads to Suspension of Pendergraft’s FL Medical License

    Tallahassee, FL — The Florida Department of Health has again suspended the medical license of late-term abortionist James Pendergraft for a period of two years.

    The final order, issued January 26, 2010, indicates that after Pendergraft serves his suspension, he will be required serve an additional three years of probation during which time he will only be allowed to operate under the direct supervision of a Board Certified ObGyn, which must also share an office with him. In addition, Pendergraft was ordered to pay $20,000 in administrative costs by February 25, 2010.

    The suspension is the result of a complaint filed April 14, 2008, that states Pendergraft illegally prescribed controlled substances without proper DEA licensing and committed medical malpractice in a botched abortion of a 19 week fetus on February 7, 2006.

    After inadequately dilating Patient S.B.’s cervix for a D&E abortion, Pendergraft ruptured her uterus and shoved the pre-born baby’s body into the abdominal cavity. She was rushed to the hospital where she received an emergency hysterectomy along with the removal of the dead fetus, which was missing an arm. The arm was later found at Pendergraft’s EPOC abortion clinic. His not reporting that he had removed the arm caused a delay in her care at the hospital as surgeons futilely attempted to locate the missing appendage.

    This is not Pendergraft’s first brush with the law. His Florida license was suspended in 2006 for doing illegal third trimester abortions. He completed that suspension which was unsuccessfully appealed. At that time the Florida Department of Health stated that Pendergraft showed “a flagrant disregard for the laws of the state of Florida and a willingness to endanger the lives and health of pregnant patients.”

    “It is shocking that Pendergraft’s Florida medical license was not permanently revoked. He has been involved in numerous disciplinary actions, and remains a menace to women,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “This is yet another National Abortion Federation member that is not fit to practice medicine.”

    Last month NAF’s president Vicki Saporta was expressed opposition to Operation Rescue’s Abortion Whistleblowers campaign that is seeking to bring abortion abusers to justice. Numerous NAF members have already been incarcerated for crimes and/or lost their licenses due to substandard care.

    Pendergraft’s five Florida abortion mills are expected to remain open using hired abortionists already on staff.

    “We urge pro-life activists in Florida to carefully monitor Pendergraft’s abortion clinics and report suspicious activity to the authorities immediately,” said Newman.

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