“Every 21 minutes, our next possible leader is aborted” is the theme of a controversial anti-abortion billboard campaign that went up in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, recently. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but when the poster also features an image of President Obama, critics say that’s just wrong and disrespectful. The billboards are the work of a Texas-based pro-life group called Life Always, an organization whose critics also say targets Blacks and Black neighborhoods for its anti-abortion campaigns. It is the same group that placed a billboard ad in New York featuring the face of a young African-American girl that read, “The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb.” That billboard was taken down because the employees working in the building it was posted on were being harassed.” * So what do you think? Is this disrespectful to the president or does this simply cause the kind of buzz LifeAlways seeks?
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They have a cause and they are passionate about it, I don’t have a problem with it. I think the issue is that in communities of color the media and leadership is more liberal than the people on some issues like abortion.
I think they are focusing on the fact that the rate for abortion is pretty high in the black communities compared to other minorities. In addition, back in the 60′s many biracial children were aborted, particularly if the father was black and the mother white. The odds of Obama being here today were strongly against him. The proper way to campaign against abortion is to get girls (and boys) to avoid getting into unwanted pregnancies in the first place. Following that, it becomes much more controversial, as we have seen here and in the previous ad you mentioned.
I think that this campaign against Black women is extremely dangerous – this group is trying to equate all abortions with murder, and accuse Black women of genocide, especially of Black males, which is crap. They could really care less if Black women did or did not have abortions, they just want to fan the flames of discord between Black men and women by accusing Black women of murder.
@Elogam, first of all, the rate of abortion is higher in the white communities, with 80% of all abortions taking place by white women. Abortions were never as commonplace among Blacks as other groups, thus the high teen pregnancy rates in the BC. So please end that over-quoted lie.
Number two, if we go by your argument that biracial (black father, white mother) abortions were more commonplace, then why not put the posters in white neighborhoods telling white mothers of Black babies not to abort their kids? Obama’s mother was white, after all.This whole campaign is just more of the anti-Black woman TERRORIST trash that has been spewed in the past few years.
I’d be interested in seeing your statistics to support your claim. Even if they are absolutely correct, they do not dispute my claim that
..”the rate for abortion is pretty high in the black communities compared to other minorities”<<
Abortion is much lower in Asian and Hispanic communities. I've seen conflicting stats, so I won't post or refer you to them. But in all cases, Blacks had higher abortion rates.
I also said that MANY biracial babies were aborted. I didn't say it was "more commonplace". I don't know for a fact that it was "more commonplace", and haven't looked for stats in that respect because I don't believe anyone has any reliable ones. Chances were higher that if it was a white mother and a black father, and there was some money available, the young white mother was "sent off" to "do the right thing". As late as 1979 one of my white peers told me her mother warned her not to date a minority, because she wanted her daughter to "give her children the same opportunities" that the rest of her family had. If she'd ended up in a "family way", the family told her she'd be expected to "do the right thing". Distasteful thinking, even 30 years ago.
Man. Let me see if I can comprehend this. This is a campaign that is extremely dangerous to Black women? Any danger in this issue to Black babies? And about that murder and genocide thing; how can deliberately and often violently terminating the life of an innocent human being possibly be misconstrued as genocide or murder?
You state that this group is trying to equate all abortions with murder. Explain to me how you discern which are murder and which are not. You seem to take some sort of solace in your statistic that states 80% of abortions are done on White women. So by comparison, whatever the percentage is for Black babies’ lives being terminated is we should happy about it?
I don’t know how accurate your statistics are. But this I know with 100% accuracy, every baby that is aborted has the sanctity of their God given life extinguished.