MOMocrats' Super Bowl Tailgate for Choice: You're Invited!

The MOMocrats are throwing a “Tailgate for Choice,” and we're inviting 
men and women who support reproductive rights to shout it
 with your dollars on Super Bowl Sunday!

If you’re attending or hosting a Superbowl party when the Focus on the 
Family tv ad comes on, use it to prompt you to donate at least $5 online to your 
favorite pro-choice organization. (See the list and take the pledge after the jump.)

That way, right-wing 
religious fundamentalists interested in making their narrow values everyone 
else’s values will instead have spent $2.5 million on A GIANT PRO-CHOICE AD.

Even if you’re not at a Super Bowl party—or even if the ad gets pulled—on Sunday, February 7, 2010, make a donation to keep choice safe and 
accessible for women. 'Cuz uteruses aren't political footballs.

Here’s why we decided there’s a need for a million “Tailgate 
for Choice" parties around the country this coming Super Bowl Sunday:

•     Anti-choice Focus on the Family wants to toss a political stinkbomb into a 
cherished and apolitical American institution, at an all-ages family event. TMI: discussions about health care really belong between patient and doctor.

•     Focus on the Family ("SpongeBob Squarepants-hater" James Dobson’s 
anti-gay, mandatory procreation Christian fundamentalist group) 
espouses misguided, exclusionary values we don’t agree with. 


•     Christian fundamentalist football player Tim Tebow has religious views that are extreme. Which would be fine if he simply played football.


•     CBS has shown a conservative slant in the kinds of advocacy 
advertising they’re willing to accept. Yes to anti-choice ads. No to ads that are pro-choice, pro-marriage 
equality, and ads critical of former president Bush. 

We think choices are good. We believe women need the full range of 
options when taking care of their own health. We believe having no children at all is one of many 
choices many women have open to them. We trust women to make the 
decisions that are right for them.

You’ve signed the petitions against Focus on the Family and CBS’ 
slanted ad policies. Why leave it up to an indifferent corporation to 
determine whether you’re heard? Here's an opportunity to yell your support for choice. Best of all, you can help organizations that keep 
women's reproductive health accessible, private, and safe. We lift a dip-covered chip to the skies in your honor.

Join us at our MOMocrats Super Bowl Tailgate for Choice! If you'd like an emailed reminder on the day of, or would like to know what the MOMocrats have planned next, fill out the email form and you'll get our occasional newsletter.

Take the pledge below in the comments and promise to donate at least $5 to one of the following worthy pro-choice groups on Super Bowl Sunday:

Guttmacher Institute

NARAL

NNAF

Planned Parenthood Great Northwest

Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains

Planned Parenthood*

*try regional/local offices, such as the two above, if the main website is slow to process your donation

Comments

[Laura]

I pledge to donate to Planned Parenthood on Sunday (even though I will not be watching the game)!

[Sharyn]

I will watch the game and pledge! Also, please see this great PP ad with Sean James and Al Joyner
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/03/planned-parenthoods-tim-t_n_448535.html

[Sharyn]

Someone on HP suggested not only donating but doing it in Tebow's name!

[Cynematic]

Sharyn, I like that idea. :)

I'm in, even though I've watched maybe 10 minutes of football in my life!

[jenn]

Im from new Orleans so this year I may just get tino it for celebration sake

[Eric Marinelli]

I'll be donating $10 to NARAL the moment the first ad airs.

[Christina Cusumano]

Thanks for the opportunity to participate in support of a message that will stand in contrast to the same old patriarchal crap! It is important for me to get beyond the ranting and railing against these pervasive messages and do something constructive.

[Ida L Tino]

Ever since I was born as my father's only chid, I've been "into" sports: baseball, hockey, basketball, and football as well as all the Olympic games. I attended almost every football, basketball, baseball, soccer, lacrosse game that my sons played during their school years. I am a HUGE fan of the "Games". I am also a self proclaimed feminist, a pro-choice, pro-working mom-pro-family, person who takes offense at the objectification of women. So I take the pledge with pride in my feminism and support Planned Parenthood to counter the anti-choice sentiment being marketed with a $10.00 donation.

[Jen LF]

I'll be contributing to the Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund, a local grassroots organization that helps women pay for their abortions. It's an affiliate of NNAF, the National Network of Abortion Funds. I hope others will consider NNAF and/or their local fund!

[jan baxter]

I contributed to PPac, the Planned Parenthood org for political action to preserve women's rights, including our right to choice. Thanks Momocrats for getting this drive going. I hope we raise tons of money!!

[gee]

Pledged to Planned Parenthood. Watched the game, my second football game this year and these the first in many years. Bypassed the commercials! Have a soft spot fo the Saints so wanted to see the game. My husband was on commercial watch - to tell me when the game was back on and report out how sexist they were. (He didn't listen to sound of them and ignored many.)Go women and good guys who respect us. This world needs a changing!

[Christian Louboutin]

Here is the Daughtry Super Bowl Tailgate Party 2010 video of the pre-game live performance on Feb. 7, at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, preceding the Super Bowl XLIV with the Indianapolis Colts vs. New Orleans Saints in the NFL championship game. The Grammy Award nominated band, whose frontman is season 4 American Idol finalist Chris Daughtry played a 45-minute set, including Life After You.

[pregnancy timeline]

Sounds like it was a great day out. Shame I missed it.