New Racist Anti Abortion Ad Features President Obama
Anti abortion group 'Always Life' is using President Obama's image in their latest campaign.
The Texas-based anti-abortion group, Always Life is once again stirring up controversy and proliferating racial hatred. Their recent plans to install 30 billboards across the South Side of Chicago to draw attention to their claim that a disproportionate number of black women seek abortions, was met with opposition from anti-abortion campaigners.
Known for their over-the-top ads (back in February, they paid for a NYC billboard that displayed a picture of a little African-American girl and stated, “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.”), their most recent ads contain President Obama. The billboard has a picture of Obama’s face next to the words “Every 21 minutes our next possible leader is aborted.” It also encourages women to visit an anti-abortion website, thatsabortion.com.
The Chicago-Sun Times reports that protesters tried to drown out the campaign’s Chicago launch” by heckling speakers and shouting that the campaign misappropriates an African-American icon and does nothing to offer desperate women alternatives or to help them raise their children.”
Life Always responded to the opposition even louder:
But using loudspeakers and a public-address system, Pastor Stephen Broden, a Texas minister who serves on the Life Always board, shouted back that African-American abortions are “threatening the very survival of our community,” claiming the legalization of abortion in 1973 had created an “irreversible reduction” in the black population.
Last month’s offensive billboard in New York City was taken down less than 24 hours after it received national outcry. As of today, three identical billboards picturing the President are erected overlooking Chicago.
Image: Thatsabortion.com
With that logic you could also be aborting the next Hitler or Jeffrey Dalhmer so Yay!
If you want to reduce the number of abortions you need to increase sex education, access to birth control and make it easier for women to support the babies they have.
if this ad is racist you should see what the founder of PP wrote about minorities, talk about racist!
While I don’t think this group is handling the message correctly, they could make a valid and needed point if they addressed it properly. I heard this statistic earlier and had to go back and recheck it because it sounded so unfathomable. According to a few different web sites 13 Million African American babies have been aborted over the past 30 years. Wow, talk about a lost generation.
so sad! i hate abortion! IN ANY RACE.
so sad! i hate abortion! IN ANY RACE. but I def. Feel that the group should put their money into birth control and std/ sex/ pregnancy awareness/prevention. instead of billboards.
Abortion is wrong for so many reasons. Sounds like a great organization to donate funds to. Thanks.
Why is there such a high rate of abortion in the African-American community? Because there is across the board lack of access to health care. The Guttmacher Institute that does research on abortion rates pointed out that most women have abortions because their birth control fails, and that the better access to health care and birth control would decrease the abortion rate in any community. If people are worried about black people dying, they should take a good look at the disparity between survival rates for African-Americans with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and other health issues, and the survival rates for white people. That is the real scandal. As to Margaret Sanger, she was a complex women, and yes a eugenicist. If you read her writings, other than cherry picked quotes she worked with black leaders, and guess who accepted Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger award in 1966? Dr. Martin Luther King. I doubt he would have accepted an award named after someone he thought was a bigot. Lack of health care=more abortions. So lets cut funding to one of the biggest health care providers in the US! Logical!
I wonder…How much real sexual health education and contraceptives could be offered to people with the amount these groups spend on racist and otherwise offensive billboards?
It always amazes me the excuses people come up with for Margaret Singer just to stay with the pro-choice “groupthink.”
These people are as bad as PETA.