So now there is a racial conspiracy behind abortion?

[liberal N proud]

These people are out of their flipping minds!

Antiabortion activists see a racial conspiracy
According to a vocal group - and a set of stark new billboards in Atlanta - abortion providers target black women in order to reduce the black population.

It's a campaign designed to shock: Dozens of newly installed billboards in Atlanta feature the cherubic face of a black baby and a stark claim: "Black children are an endangered species."

A joint effort of Georgia Right to Life and the pro-adoption, pro-abstinence Radiance Foundation, the campaign ostensibly calls attention to the fact that black women have a disproportionately high number of abortions. But there is a deeper, more disturbing claim at work as well.

An increasingly vocal segment of the antiabortion community has embraced the idea that black women are targeted for abortion in an effort to keep the black population down.

The billboards direct people to a website called toomanyaborted.com, which claims that "Under the false liberty of 'reproductive freedom' we are killing our very future."

Some black antiabortion activists call the phenomenon "womb lynching." One prominent black cleric, the Rev. Clenard Childress Jr. of New Jersey, often says the most dangerous place for a black child is the womb.

No one disputes that black women have more abortions, proportionately, than women of other races. Nationally, African Americans make up about 13% of the population and have about 37% of all abortions, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-billboards2-2010mar02,0,6454598.story?track=ntothtml

[mrcheerful]

1. How come I can remember after Roe V Wade, around the time that the religious right were

starting to come out of their bomb shelters and making a political noise, ( they were blown off at the time as being nut cases and ignored ),that a few republicon congress critters were saying that since R v W was law they could force welfare mothers to have abortions followed by sterilization? I remember they said it then all of a sudden it was gone, like a week or so after it was reported.

[stray cat]

2. No - abortion has always been a way to get rid of a sex or color that wasn't wanted

they just used to have to wait until the child was born and drown in or put it on a hill to die of exposure

[RainDog]

3. this statement makes no sense

abortion is a medical procedure that takes place before birth.

infanticide (with a looong tradition in all cultures, btw) is not abortion.

your statement is emotional hogwash.

[Traveling_Home]

4. Margaret Sanger - Planned Parenthood 'nuff said

[RainDog]

5. no, it's not enough said

unless you are a propagandist.

which those who support forced child birth seem to be.

[RainDog]

6. why do religious people hate women? nt

[pampango]

7. Coincidence doesn't equal conspiracy.

African Americans using food stamps at higher rate, for example, is a result of societal conditions (racism, etc.) not a conspiracy to make them dependent of the government dole.

[RainDog]

8. study reveals link b/t racism and religion

http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=107713

seems like those claiming black children are being targeted are more likely to be racist themselves.