More stupid anti-abortion news: Billboards in Atlanta implying "too many black abortions"

Anti-Abortion Ads Split Atlanta
by Shaila Dewan
The New York Times
February 6, 2010

ATLANTA — Anti-abortion groups have erected scores of billboards here with an alarming message: “Black children are an endangered species.”

The groups responsible insist that they are not exaggerating, despite contrary federal data. The billboards, which show a close-up of a worried-looking African-American boy, are an effort to highlight data showing that black women get a disproportionate number of abortions, especially in Georgia, and that the number in Georgia is increasing.

“The impact of abortion has become so great that it has begun to impact our fertility rate,” said Catherine Davis, the minority outreach coordinator for Georgia Right to Life, the state’s main anti-abortion group, which has sponsored the billboards in partnership with the Radiance Foundation, a group based in Atlanta that encourages adoption.

The billboards — there are 65 now and will eventually be 80, Ms. Davis said — were created in conjunction with a new Web site, www.toomanyaborted.com, which says that all of Georgia’s abortion clinics are in “urban areas where blacks reside.” The Web site connects abortion to segregation, saying that after the civil rights era, racists went “underground,” and that today “abortion is the tool they use to stealthily target blacks for extermination.”

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In 2006, 57.4 percent of the abortions in Georgia were performed on black women, even though blacks make up about 30 percent of the population, according to the most recent figures from the federal Centers for Disease Control. Of the 37 states that reported abortion data by race, Georgia was second only to New York and Texas in the number of abortions performed on black women. Only Mississippi and Maryland reported a higher percentage of abortions going to black women than Georgia.

But there was little evidence that abortions had made black children unusually endangered. The fertility rate, or births per 1,000 women of childbearing age, among black women remains higher than the national average and has inched up in recent years, according to C.D.C. data.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/us/06abortion.html

(sigh) It's bad enough that Tim Tebow's ad with Focus on the Family is gonna be shown during the Super Bowl this Sunday with no other ad to balance it. And now if you live in Atlanta you'll be bombarded with these appeal-to-emotion-and-not-the-brain billboards that imply that abortion = genocide.

This week, I've learned that abortion prevents the procreation of talented individuals and is a liberal genocide conspiracy! :sarcasm:

...but that isn't one of them.

The bigger issue is why minority women do not have access to contraception, proactive family planning, prenatal care, etc., compared to white women.

they are distorting the facts. Most of the residents in Atlanta are bladk, so it's a given that most of anything would be associated with he black community!

He'll straighten this all out.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpaoUpSXC7U

One way to take away the Dems votes.

Surprised a billboard saying that has not been put up by the GOP yet.

They're often white supremacists who are concerned about white fetuses getting aborted, and have moved into equating abortion with racism against blacks as a cover for their own racism.

Steven Peroutka of Pro-Life Radio, for example, called Planned Parenthood racist and implied they were out to abort black babies, at the same time that Peroutka is associated with the white supremacist Constitution Party. Just one example among many about how anti-abortionists really think.