NYC: Controversial Anti-Abortion Billboard Shocks SoHo Residents

Controversial Anti-Abortion Billboard Shocks SoHo Residents
The pro-life group's billboard reads, "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb."


A three-story billboard has drawn criticism from SoHo residents for its abortion message aimed directly at minority women. (DNAinfo/Patrick Hedlund)

By Gabriela Resto-Montero and Patrick Hedlund

DNAinfo Staff


SOHO — An anti-abortion billboard that went up in SoHo earlier this week has drawn swift criticism from residents and officials for its racial targeting of minority women.

"The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb," reads the inflammatory ad sponsored by the Dallas-based pro-life group "Life Always."

The three-story billboard at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Watts Street features an elementary-school aged African-American girl looking out at viewers with a plaintive expression, wearing a bow in her hair and a sleeveless pink jumper dress. The ad directs passersby to the group's website, thatsabortion.com.

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"To refer to a woman's legal right to an abortion as a 'genocidal plot' is not only absurd, but it is offensive to women and to communities of color," Quinn wrote in a statement of Broden's claim that the high abortion rates among minority women amounted to genocide.

Mae Collazo, 38, who works across the street from the billboard, said she found the billboard incredibly offensive.

"I don't like it all, what is that supposed to mean?" said Collazo, who is African American, "It makes it sound like all we do is abort our children."

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But I don't think a girl of the age pictured in the ad should be carrying a fetus to term or even viability. Is that what they're saying?

The design committee didn't think this one through.

To me, the picture says, "Look at this beautiful child; she would exist if she had been aborted".

they are getting bolder by the day. "handmaid's tale" is not that far away.

They could have a picture with a pregnant teenager with a caption that reads: "the Republicans want me to have my father's baby."

Those are some evil bastards.

think that was perfectly acceptable; they might even think she should be punished for becoming an unwed mother . . .