Sunday, February 14, 2010

Billboards Link Two Heated Issues

Wow.

The message on dozens of billboards across the city is provocative: Black children are an “endangered species.”

The eyebrow-raising ads featuring a young black child are an effort by the anti-abortion movement to use race to rally support within the black community. The reaction from black leaders has been mixed, but the “Too Many Aborted” campaign, which so far is unique to only Georgia, is drawing support from other anti-abortion groups across the country.

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The effort is sponsored by Georgia Right to Life, which also is pushing legislation that aims to ban abortions based on race.

Black women accounted for the majority of abortions in Georgia in 2006, even though blacks make up just a third of state population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nationally, black women were more than three times as likely to get an abortion in 2006 compared with white women, according to the CDC.

(8) Comments
Posted by Owen at 2239 hrs
Culture + Politics + Politics - General

  1. The ghost of Margaret Sanger…

    There is a reason that there are more abortion clinics in minority-dominated areas.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 14, 2010 at 2306 hrs


  2. Don’t you know the Democratic party has been pushing to make abortions “safe, legal, and rare” now for almost 20 years? And it’s been a part of the official party plank for almost that long.

    We all know how well Democratic programs work, though—1 in 3 pregnancies in the black community are terminated through abortion. It certainly opens your eyes as to the relative risks to a child since nothing else will ever put a child at risk as being in its mother’s womb.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 15, 2010 at 0149 hrs


  3. Is this related more to the breakdown of the black family than the fact that many blacks are democratic?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 15, 2010 at 0727 hrs


  4. Of course it is, Bill. Poverty is corrosive. Rebuilding the social safety net would do much more to decrease the number of abortions in this country than overturning Roe.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 15, 2010 at 0946 hrs


  5. I think the “social safety net” is what is destroying the black family. When you are dependent on the government - i.e., you get a handout for being single mother, as opposed to being married - you encourage the behavior.

    My black friends who have an intact family are stronger than any other families I know. Their relatives who live off of handouts from Uncle Sucker - live in poverty and have no incentive to get a job or make something out of their lives.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 15, 2010 at 0952 hrs


  6. Wrong-O Free Lunch.

    First, the greatest indicator of poverty is a single-mom household.

    Next, “The Great Society” (aka the Welfare State) destroyed the black family by making the fathers expendable.  Before then, you found a mostly intact black family and communities.

    Now you have 3 generations of fatherless dependents on the state.  There are families with multiple generations that have never held a job.  They don’t even know what that takes or even looks like.

    You also need to investigate Margaret Sanger and the Progressive Eugenics movement.  The entire purpose for the innocuous-sounding “Planned Parenthood” was to eliminate the poor, minority, immigrant, and other “undesirable” populations.  Some history simply cannot be changed.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 15, 2010 at 0958 hrs


  7. I agree, Bill, that it was completely foolish to discriminate against poor people who were married. The solution was not to make things as bad for singles. This is about poverty, not race.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 15, 2010 at 1000 hrs


  8. Damn Free Lunch - you are obviously a product of Progressive education.

    The Great Society is most certainly intertwined with race.  It was an extension of the Civil Rights movement.

    Back to the abortion thing though…  More on the Eugenics “Negro Project” 

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on February 15, 2010 at 1008 hrs


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