I was thoroughly underwhelmed by most of the ads at this year’s Super Bowl. The Letterman/Leno ad was probably the funniest, with an honorable mention to Denny’s for the screaming chickens.

But the feel good ad of this Super Bowl – by a couple of touchdowns – was when University of Florida Quarterback Tim Tebow’s mom stole the show reminding people how precious every life is.

(If you don’t know the back story, Pam Tebow was overseas and had dysentery when she got pregnant. Doctors advised her to terminate her pregnancy, but she refused to do that. And just a couple of decades later, Tim Tebow won the Heisman Trophy because of her decision.)

After seeing the ad, I couldn’t help but wonder if some of the pro-abortion organizations who had so vehemently attacked the Tebows for their message were wishing they had done a little bit more thinking and a little bit less shrieking.

This can be an emotional issue for many, but ultimately, I think what this ad really illustrated is that there is nothing to celebrate about ending life. Nobody would put an ad on the Super Bowl applauding the termination of a pregnancy. And for those of us involved in the orphan care and adoption cause, that fact really does hit home: all human lives are precious and deserve our protection.

It’s a beautiful thing to celebrate family. It’s a beautiful thing to celebrate life.