Anti-abortion group targets black women with billboards

[ccharles000]

http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2010/02/04/anti-abortion-group-targets-black-women-with-billboards/?cxntfid=blogs_political_insider_jim_galloway

An anti-abortion group targeting African-American women has begun putting up dozens of billboards around metro Atlanta, declaring black children to be “an endangered species.”

This is what they look like:

Ryan Bomberger, co-founder of the Radiance Foundation, said 35 should be up by Feb. 15. “We’re aiming for a lot more, but that’s where we’re at,” Bomberger said.

The billboards were announced at a state Capitol news conference at which another group, Georgia Right to Life, announced that it would back legislation this session that would make it a crime to “solicit a woman to have an abortion based on the race or sex of the unborn child.”

The two groups are citing what they say are federal statistics that indicate 56 percent of abortions in Georgia are performed on African-American women, though black make up 30 percent of the general population.

[BumRushDaShow]

1. "...black make up 30 percent of the general population."

which makes you wonder why the hell this is a red state? But maybe one day they will wake up down there.

[onehandle]

4. Polling stations in our Boortz listening areas are given priority over liberal and minority areas.

Also, we have terrible public transportation and sprawling road systems that keep many from the polls.

[Mz Pip]

2. That add is really offensive

to me and not just because I'm pro-choice. Endangered species are animals who need our protection. Black children are not animals and that add seems to imply they are.

Really really disturbing.

[onehandle]

3. Don't let the racist suburbs of Atlanta see these billboards. They would pay to take them down.

The last thing they want are more African-Americans here in Georgia.

[Shell Beau]

6. I think that is harsh. Besides, Atlanta is pretty diverse.

[Quantess]

5. Oh, I see. Black people are a different SPECIES?

I wonder if many of the anti-choicers actually believe that blacks & whites, males & females, are different species. There is so much ignorance in this country, it's a fair question to ask.

[madrchsod]

8. at least they did`t say animals.....

[Shell Beau]

7. The stupid message gets lost because of how offensive the racist part is.

Another step back.

[skypilot]

9. Actually...

...this Ryan Bomberger guy is black--and the offspring of a rape victim who put him up for adoption. To me, what's really offensive is a man presuming to tell a woman who has been raped that she should carry the child to term. That was the choice that his mother made but it doesn't take too much to imagine that a lot of women would not be be up to this particular task. His mother made the choice that she made and he seems to think that all women should make the same choice.

http://www.thisisryan.com/2007/HOMEPAGE.htm

[ccharles000]

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