Anti-abortion group targets black women with billboards

[Blue_Tires]

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.”

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.

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

[Number23]

1. holy crap

"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.”

Is this actually happening???

[jmm]

2. I've read a few articles about it over the years but here's a recent one-

http://www.cleveland.com/schultz/index.ssf/2010/02/acorns_scourge_james_okeefe_ge.html

I may be pro choice but this is still pretty sickening.

[Number23]

3. Jmm, did you link to the right story??

The article you linked to is about that idiot James O'Keefe, not about abortion.

[jmm]

4. I'm posting from my phone so I probably can find better links later but

there is a part in there that mentions him donating money to Planned Parenthood only for black women to get abortions-

In 2006, Planned Parenthood issued an apology after O'Keefe recorded employees in Ohio and Idaho agreeing to allow him to donate money only for abortions for black women. Some argued that the women thought he was just clumsily trying to help minority clients. There is no excuse for the employees' responses, or O'Keefe's disturbing tactics. Over time, it has become clear that his favorite targets are women and minorities.

While I'm sure the anti choice groups supporting this law has an ulterior motive and is milking the racism angle the O'Keefe situation isn't the first time I've heard of people supporting abortion based on race.