Anti-abortion group targets black women with billboards
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.
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Ferrette
February 10th, 2010
1:58 pm
I am black, female and pro-choice
These comments are profoundly disturbing. I have read black women called sluts, stupid, targeted, irresponsible and all manner of hateful things. When will these racist stereotypes die? And why is it anti-choice people throwing these terms around?
The assumption that women are too stupid to make informed decisions about their lives is what the so-called “pro-life” movement feeds off of. What else do they refer to women as “targeted.” Please, do yourselves a favor and abandon these racist and paternalistic views. As for Planned Parenthood, they provide vital services to both women and men in all communities in the form of pre-natal care, gynecological exams, physicals, birth control, comprehensive sex ed and yes, abortion services. i donate proudly to them, and commend them for the aid they render.
If you don’t want/need an abortion, then don’t get one. I won’t make you. But please stop forcing your narrow-minded, fundamentalist views on the rest of us.
And black women are NOT sluts and idiots. We are not cattle to be traded, debated and led to slaughter. We are human beings, and demand respect as such.
alani
February 10th, 2010
6:52 pm
Please go on the internet and look up the Eugenics movement, and how they sterilized blacks and Indians in Virginia. Native Americans are almost extinct, and the Eugenics movement was behind it. I believe that too many abortion clinics are located in African American neighborhoods. We should be counseling young girls on preventing pregnancy, and young men as well. I do not believe that an eleven year old girl should have a baby. There are all kinds of health risks for the mother and that child. We need to go after the men who are impregnating these young girls, whether they are black, white or in between. What concerns me is the number of African American women, who are not able to conceive. What is that about? Why is planned parenthood concentrated in Urban Areas?
the twirler
February 10th, 2010
6:56 pm
better to save African American fetuses than adult women, huh Georgia Right to Life?
what you doing for post-born folks? nuthin’ huh, except trying to criminalize them? big suprise
mike
February 10th, 2010
7:36 pm
I think that yes abortion is wrong, it is killing the children of our world and future, just think about if your mother had got an abortion, would you be the person you are today? Certainly not, however even though the numbers may show it, I think it is wrong to just target one specific group, because it will be considered racial, why not just put faces of a variety of babies, not just one specific ethnicity.
mike
February 10th, 2010
7:44 pm
Also I believe that it is the parents to blame more than anything. When you know better than you do better, if you are not taught on what you should and shouldn’t do then, this is what happens. However I believe there is a negative portrait of blacks as a race anyways. The media only show one side of our community, sex, drugs, violence, murder. It is in our music as well as our films, evening the roles of some actors. Some people are afraid to even stand by me sometimes, afraid that I am going to steal something, I mean what is that? I believe that this type of racial profiling will never end.
Nifar
February 10th, 2010
8:28 pm
I am rather saddened at some of the comments here, and the lack of knowledge they display.
First, lest start with “abortion is murder”: Not really. By the point the baby has progressed to the point that it could be considered murder, it’s highly unsafe for the mother to get an abortion. Before the fetus has developed a functioning brain, keyword there is “functioning”, can it be considered any more human than any other animal that we conceder inferior to us and have no problem killing?
Next up, “most abortion clinics are in minority/impoverished neighborhoods.”: Well yes. It just makes good business sense.Here’s and economics question for you: If you’re the owner of a franchise of restaurants that’s opening a new location, where would you put it? The proper answer is “In a population center, preferably an area where the kind of people who normally eat at my restaurants live nearby.” Abortion clinics open where they do because they know they’ll get more business there, not because they want to encourage more business from the people in the area.
Finally “eugenics is inherently bad, and anybody who supports it is like Hitler”: Well, yes and no. Forced eugenics is most certainly bad, not to mention illegal. However, eugenics in and of itself isn’t a bad thing per se. If someone picks out a husband/wife because they know that their children will have certain desirable qualities, then that’s just smart breeding, and most certainly not a bad thing. If two people are forced to have children because of those qualities, then that’s bad.
Also, as a resident of Atlanta, I’m wondering where everyone else is hiding if African-Americans are only 30% of the population.
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9:41 am
[...] Those billboards around town declaring black children to be an endangered species? That’s what this is about. [...]
Rev. Brian Walker
February 11th, 2010
1:47 pm
Protecting black children from abortion and providing for those whose lives are spared are not mutually exclusive. It is a common charge against the pro-life movement that we only care for the baby and put mom & dad under the bus.
Nothing is further that the truth. Crisis pregnancy centers are set up to meet the practical needs of mothers and fathers to be. We at Pro-Life Action Ministries as of last week by God’s grace have saved over 2,500 children of all races. We provide and refer mothers (to CPCs) supplying them with everything from diapers to cars (to get dad to work), we inform women that the father is legally responsible( in MN) for child support whether she marries him or not. Many of the churches we work with have waiting list to adopt, provide food, shelter, clothing and job training etc.
The Planned Parenthood’s of this world will send her home with few if any referrals for follow up help, practical and emotional (forget spiritual) support. So much for choice.
Many hands make light the work, but it makes no sense for all of us to row the same oar. Some of us will address schools/housing/equality, but must we wait for all of these issues to be resolved, as we loose a large portion of our race? The pro-abortion industry would love to have us at each others throats and they’ve done an excellent job until now because of organizations like these:
LEARN, Inc. (coalition of African American pro-life organizations) comprising churches/ organizations and individuals. Many of the member organizations have day care/ alternative schools/ job training/ community banks- and yet have aggressive pro-life agendas. Its’ members are of every political stripe but regard pro-life work as a legitimate spiritual/justice/ human rights/ economic/ health issue.
Maafa21 (maafa21.com) is a feature length documentary focusing on the history of Planned Parenthood and the Black community. It is a must see regardless of your views on abortion.
Abortion has given men an out from their responsibilities (I was one of them), increased domestic violence, trashed womens’ self-esteem and endangered their health (breast cancer)etc. My wife and I co-founded an post-abortion and miscarriage ministry called Everlasting Light Ministries because we’ve experienced the “wake of choice” that the abortion mills refuse tell you about.
This billboard campaign is really a community service. I sidewalk counsel almost 6 hours a week in front of these abortuaries and I see black women and men who have been indoctrinated by the pro-abortion/choice/contraceptive world view to fall in line with them and seek one solution to their predicament – the final solution. I wished I had seen such a sign 28 years ago when I needed it.
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February 11th, 2010
8:02 pm
I thought you would like to know that the creative force behind all of this is ‘Ryan Bomberger’ who is the product of a rape–his white mother was raped by a black man–he was adopted and now is trying to tell black women what to do with their bodies. I am a black woman and what I do with my body is my business.(Perhaps he will start telling black men it is ok to rape black women next!) Especially when most black men do not raise the children they procreate. Since that burden rest solely on the shoulders of black women–to the tune of around 70%, what does a man have to say about it… In addition to this, many black men prefer other men,in addition to that many are incarcerated. Also many black men don’t even respect black women enough to date them or propose marriage–while they have the highest percentage of marriage outside of their race–go figure!
George
February 16th, 2010
5:07 pm
Adoption, not abortion. Adopt black kids from Haiti and unwanted black kids from America and take them into your white homes, particularly in Nathan Deal’s Georgia tenth district. Now that will really show the commitment of the National Right to Lifers!
wizardofx
February 18th, 2010
7:17 am
Please keep OUT of every woman’s womb irrespective of race, etc. It’s NONE of YOUR business what a woman does with her own body. PERIOD!
WrittenbyBene
February 23rd, 2010
1:10 am
This ad is wrong on so many levels. Anyone who even defends the comment, I question your level of integrity and intelligence. What are the sources for these alleged statistics that 56% of black women are aborting their children in GA? Statistics are a funny thing and oftentimes misrepresent the truth. Furthermore, I don’t believe any data or study that says black women are 3 times more likely to have an abortion than white women. That’s malarchy. The entire black race only makes up 13% of America’s population. Numerically it doesn’t add up. I have a long history of going to school with and working with white women. Of course I’m over generalizing, but in my experiences white women will have an abortion at the drop of a dime. While it is typical of black women will keep their child because of their firm belief in God. Nevertheless, an ad that so graphically targets a race of women is wrong. Period. Extinction? Really, that was the best the marketers could come up with. Its sad that EVERYTHING in this country is & will always be about race.
WrittenbyBene
February 23rd, 2010
3:03 am
I cannot read another comment from an asinine white person offering solutions. Until white people want to acknowledge their hand in the state of the black community, I don’t want to hear any comments from them about our poverty, our black fathers, our children being born out of wedlock. It iswhite privelage that allows you all to ignore what you all have created. The affects of slavery on black people in America are real. A century later we are still suffering from white slave masters ripping the father from the family. White supremacy is still alive and well. The criminal justice system is slavery reincarnated. Do idiots really believe blacks are impoverished at disproportinate rates b/c they’re lazy? Come on! The institution of racism is structured to keep black impoverished no matter how much they achieve or assimilate. So don’t tell me about our communities until you acknowledge the root of the problem-white supremacy & the affects of slavery.
PS to all the dummies out there that keep brining up welfare: WHITE WOMEN ARE THE LARGEST PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE ON WELFARE. I swear there’s nothing worse than a GED white racist. Read a book, educate yourselves.
brilliant one
February 25th, 2010
12:58 am
an abortion clinic cannot force you to have an abortion.
those women made their choices, and chose to have abortions. no one forced them.
that woman claiming that the clinics are ‘targeting’ is full of it. shes just upset and emotional because the issue must hit close to home for her (which is understandable because we all got our issues) however she should not be pointing the finger at anyone like that.
advertising things like that on billboards is just a little over the top lol.
Dave Phillips
February 26th, 2010
11:12 am
Question for you anti-choice bigots: how many of you have adopted a baby? A minority baby scheduled for abortion? Anyone?
Yeah that’s what I thought.
JudyLou
February 26th, 2010
11:57 am
Charles, you sound like such a dogmatist. Do you not realize that it is the WOMAN who takes all the risk and responsibility in a pregnancy? That pregnancy is a dangerous condition? Once you have donated your sperm, the rest is up to her. I can’t understand why men believe they own women’s bodies. They do not! If a man can run out on a pregnancy–and they can and do–then a woman has the same right.
If the women don’t bear the children for a society, then who does? We didn’t volunteer for the position; it came automatically with being born female.
JudyLou
February 26th, 2010
11:59 am
Plus, the need for abortion is men’s fault, since women don’t get pregnant by themselves. No sperm, no pregnancy. Forget birth control. Demand and enforce mandatory celibacy for all unmarried men.
JudyLou
February 26th, 2010
12:02 pm
Rev. Walker, you are badly misinformed that abortion causes breast cancer. It does not. That’s just another right-wing scare tactic to hit women over the head with.
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April 3rd, 2010
11:08 am
All you ‘pro-life’ folks…go adopt a crack baby and get back to me. Until then, shut the hell up.
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April 28th, 2010
5:28 pm
@LoveWisdom; Please do some research…
In February 2003, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) convened a workshop of over 100 of the world’s leading experts who study pregnancy and breast cancer risk. Workshop participants reviewed existing population-based, clinical, and animal studies on the relationship between pregnancy and breast cancer risk, including studies of induced and spontaneous abortions. They concluded that having an abortion or miscarriage does not increase a woman’s subsequent risk of developing breast cancer. A summary of their findings, titled Summary Report: Early Reproductive Events and Breast Cancer Workshop, can be found at http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/ere-workshop-report.
NCI regularly reviews and analyzes the scientific literature on many topics, including various risk LoveWisdom factors for breast cancer. Considering the body of literature that has been published since 2003, when NCI held this extensive workshop on early reproductive events and cancer, the evidence overall still does not support early termination of pregnancy as a cause of breast cancer. To view regular updates on this topic, please go to http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/prevention/breast/HealthProfessional/page3#Section_280.
If you’re so concerned about breast cancer, then I would suggest you no longer use a bra. Yes, you heard me.. a study points to a possibility of bras contributing to breast cancer.
“Singer and Grismaijer found was that the odds of getting breast cancer dramatically increased with bra-wearing over 12 hours per day.
* Women who wore their bras 24 hours per day had a 3 out of 4 chance of developing breast cancer (in their study, n=2056 for the cancer group and n=2674 for the standard group).
* Women who wore bras more than 12 hour per day but not to bed had a 1 out of 7 risk.
* Women who wore their bras less than 12 hours per day had a 1 out of 152 risk.
* Women who wore bras rarely or never had a 1 out of 168 chance of getting breast cancer. The overall difference between 24 hour wearing and not at all was a 125-fold difference. ”
Abortion clinics don’t target or solicit from any ethnic groups. Clinic in general will try to open in areas that need or ask for them. So if a neighborhood has people that can’t afford health care, odds are good a free clinic will open close by… Planned parenthood go to places where they are needed… and they are all over. Unfortunately tho… with the crazies on both sides of the issues, more and more doctors are actually afraid to perform abortions. And because of this, the “anti-choicers” feel they are winning a war on abortion… when in reality they are actually reveling in terrorist activities. you heard me right folks.. using threats, killing doctors, blowing up buildings… well that’s to induce fear and terror… aka terrorist activities.
Seems to me, that anyone that tries to limit rights, use religion and fear to justify terror, and try to control women… well that sounds quite a bit like Taliban.
Seems like any religion, be it muslim or christianity, when taken to the far extreme… well seems to me it becomes a bit scary.
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