Tim Tebow – true story

Heisman Trophy Winner Could Have Been a Victim of Abortion–Truth!

Summary of the eRumor:  
A forwarded Email about a woman named Pam Tebow who contracted amoebic dysentery while she and her husband were serving as missionaries in the Philippines.  During her treatment doctors discovered that she was pregnant and urged her to consider an abortion for fear that the medications used to heal her would cause irreversible damage to her baby.  Stating religious reasons, Pam refused to abort her baby and he later grew up to be the Florida Gaters quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow.

The Truth:  

Florida Gaters quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow is the son of Bob and Pam Tebow and was born in the Philippines while his parents were serving as missionaries.   This account is true according to a December 6, 2007 article written in Florida’s Gainesville Sun  .   Click for article

According to the article, Pam refused to go along with her doctors suggestions to abort the baby for reasons of faith which resulted in bed rest for the last two months of her pregnancy.  The article said that Pam “gave birth to a healthy baby boy, who she described as ‘skinny, but rather long.'”

In 2007, as a sophomore at the University of Florida, Tim Tebow  became the first player to both rush and pass for twenty touchdowns in a single season in college football history, earning him the Heisman Trophy.  Tebow has earned an impressive list of awards and accomplishments including  Associated Press Player of the Year 2007, All America Team 2007, South Eastern Conference (SEC) Male Athlete of the Year 2007, SEC Offensive Player of the Year 2008 and SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year 2008.  At the time of this writing Tebow is a Junior at the University of Florida and continues to play for the Gators.

updated 01/28/09

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Pam knows about the pain of considering abortion.

More than 21 years ago, she and her husband, Bob, were serving as missionaries to the Philippines and praying for a fifth child. Pam contracted amoebic dysentery, an infection of the intestine caused by a parasite found in a contaminated food or drink. She entered into a coma and was treated with strong antibiotics before they discovered she was pregnant. Doctors urged her to abort the baby for her own safety and told her that the medicines had caused irreversible damage to her baby. She refused the abortion and cited her Christian faith as the reason for her hope that her son would be born without the devastating disabilities physicians predicted.

The doctors “didn’t think of it as a life, they thought of it as a mass of fetal tissue,” Pam said.

While pregnant, Pam nearly lost their baby four times but refused to consider abortion. She recalled making a pledge to God with her husband, “If you will give us a son, we’ll name him ‘Timothy,’ and we’ll make him a preacher.”

Pam ultimately spent the last two months of her pregnancy in bed and, eventually, gave birth to a health baby boy August 14, 1987.

Pam’s youngest son is indeed a preacher. He preaches in prisons, makes hospital visits, and serves with his father’s ministry in the Philippines .

He also plays football. Pam’s son is Tim Tebow.

Last year, the University of Florida ‘s star quarterback, became the first sophomore in history to win college football’s highest award, the Heisman Trophy. Tim’s notoriety and the family’s inspiring story have given Pam numerous opportunities to speak on behalf of women’s centers across the country.

She was the keynote speaker at the Oct. 23, 2008, benefit banquet for two Louisville ministries. A Woman’s Choice Resource Center offers such services as free pregnancy tests, post-abortion counseling, adoption information, and material support. Necole’s Place is a companion ministry that provides support services for women in need.

Several Louisville-area Kentucky Baptist churches and Long Run Baptist Association help support both ministries.

A Woman’s Choice board chairman, John Schmitt, reported at the banquet that in the 20 years since the resource center opened, 4,500 children have been saved from abortion — 400 in this year alone.