A Day in the Life of a Tilly

In the Tilly house we happen to be of the opinion that the DVR (Digital Video Recorder) is one of greatest things ever. Due to our love of this technological masterpiece, we hardly ever watch anything live anymore, but rather record it in advance and watch it at our leisure. Another beautiful thing about  this is the ability to avoid having to watch any commercials whatsoever. Awesome.

So the other day I had the TV on in the back ground while I was working on the couch on my computer. The TV was in Live Mode since it was serving more of a purpose for background noise as Bella played hard at her talent show with Angelina Ballerina when I heard a commercial come on that made me really, really mad. Really.

The Plan B Pill.

Ok so there’s a pill out there that can stop a pregnancy. Got that. I am sure that hospitals and doctors have been giving them to young girls and women for years. I am of the opinion that a baby is a baby and that there is never a reason to end an innocent life (unless you intentionally kill someone and then I think that you should get the death penalty immediately…but that is a whole nother post). However being the somewhat liberal person that I am, I also understand that someone such as a rape victim or a woman who is caught in a physically abusive marriage may choose the option of a pill to end a possible life conceived in such a terrible and violent way. (By the way, once again I don’t think it is right so I am not saying that.)  Anyway, ok that pill exists. BUT LET’S MAKE A FREAKIN TV COMMERCIAL ABOUT IT AND MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO ANYONE??? Seriously? Let’s show a college girl in a drug store with a sad look on her face looking at this small box with hope it will make it all ok and think that the message that sends is ok? I will tell you the message it sends: Hey girls, don’t worry about stopping yourself from getting drunk at the frat house party down the street and definitely don’t stop yourself from sleeping with that dude that you hardly even know. Don’t worry about getting any kind of diseases or how crappy you are going to feel tomorrow about yourself. Just worry about having any consequences from your series of bad decisions. Aka…getting pregnant. I am not claiming to have a perfect rack record in my life. Far, far from it. Yet, I am a firm believer in personal responsibility for our decisions.

Yes, I am a Christian and my views of what is right and wrong or good or bad for us is formed from what the guidelines that God set out for us say. But let’s even take that out of the equation and say what this does to the concept of personal responsibility as a human being in general. Christain or not. I think that this 60 second commercial is a slap in the face and an encouragement for even more of a lack of stepping up and owning your decisions. What’s next, an ad campaign based around the invention of a computer chip that can be implanted in your brain that’s purpose is to eliminate having a conscious or any shred of personal accountability for the decisions you make? What the heck.