Creepy Billboards Accuse African-American Women of “Endangering” Black Kids

A new anti-choice campaign seeks to lower the rates of abortion in Georgia’s African-American community by  lobbying for affordable health care and access to contraception accusing black women of being inadequate vessels for the propagation of the race.

The billboard campaign, created by the Radiance Foundation and Georgia’s Operation Outrage, features a really cute, unaborted child staring accusingly at female passersby thinking about contributing to the destruction of the African-American community. ”Black Children Are an Endangered Species,” it reads.

Why does the organization think it’s OK to call black kids “a species”? Who knows? In a blog response to a NY Times article that makes the tone-deaf assertion “But there was little evidence that abortions had made black children unusually endangered”, the organization makes a case for their apocalyptic language:

The campaign is about the death of over 300,000 unborn African-American children each year for the past three decades.  Without the choice of Life, a child will not be.  Hence, they are endangered (def: threatened with a danger).  It does not pertain to children who are already born, although that’s the different, yet quite related, topic of child abuse.  We’ll discuss that in another post.

Oddly, they have yet to publish said post on the problems facing babies once they’ve survived the womb. Also not deemed terribly important on the site: a strategy for lowering the high rates of unintended pregnancy — the number one reason all women seek abortions – among African-American women. Here’s one novel idea: making contraception more widely available. According to a Guttmacher Institute study, Georgia ranks 21st in the availability of contraception services. The state’s family planning clinics serve only 41 percent of women in need of publicly supported contraception.

What an apt way to trumpet the anti-choice message; no feigned concern for women’s wellbeing — not even of the “abortion should be illegal because it makes some women sad” variety (Unlike having a baby against your will, which always turns out great). Just a weird, creepy guilt-trip.