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Pro-Life BillboardsA new billboard campaign attacking a woman’s right to choose has been launched by the ultra-conservative Radiance Foundation in black areas of Atlanta and other African-American locales.

Using language that compares abortion to slavery and the infamous “three fifths” clause of the Constitution describing blacks as subhuman, these anti-choice messages attack African-American females with loaded words.

Instigated on Juneteenth, a day founded to celebrate blacks’ liberation from true slavery, the Radiance Foundation has used this date to make an offensive case, claiming legal access to abortion shackles blacks in modern chains.

Pro-Life 13th Amendment Billboard

Through statements such as “The 13th Amendment Freed Us. Abortion Enslaves Us,” and “Abortion Makes Three Fifths Human Seem Overly Generous,” the Radiance Foundation has co-opted the suffering African-Americans have endured to promote its pro-life agenda. Their justification? “Roe v. Wade has made a mockery of Civil Rights history by offering destruction and bondage instead of possibility and freedom,” according to their press release. But black leaders are balking at this simplistic line of reasoning.

Rep. Barbara Lee issued a statement blasting what she called “race-based billboards that… stigmatize women of color and perpetuate myths about parenting skills.” Yet some people agree that abortion is disproportionately killing children of color as part of a larger conspiracy to keep the number of African-Americans from growing. Leftist news site Think Progress reports:

Like other similar campaigns, the new slavery billboard is based on the conspiracy theory that abortion is actually a secret plot by groups like Planned Parenthood to execute “Black Genocide,” since the African American community has a higher rate of abortions than whites. In reality, as the Guttmacher Institute notes, the higher abortion rate reflects a greater prevalence of unintended pregnancies resulting from, among other factors, a lack of access to effective contraception. This problems, ironically, is exactly what groups like Planned Parenthood actively seek to solve.

But this theory, nonetheless, has some some powerful believers. Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said last year that African Americans were better off under slavery than they are now, because abortion was illegal then. Franks also has a bill to criminalize race- or sex-based abortions. GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain actually served as a spokesman for a group pushing the black genocide theory, cutting a radio ad that accused Democrats of wanting to kill “black babies.”

Regardless of whether such a conspiracy could be true, the fact that abortion is a choice renders such an implausible secret plan ineffective. It is precisely because women have the right to an abortion, or to carry a child to term, that they maintain power over their lives. And power is freedom. The Radiance Foundation and other anti-choice groups who want to seize this freedom by reducing women’s options in life are actually trying to recreate slavery by making women submit to dogma. This is a bondage to which African-American women will never return.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    Leave it to the knowitalls to compare one thing with another DEROGATORY event in history, SMDH….

    I betcha the PERSON who wrote this, NEVER been in slavery, so they need to STFU about comparing THIS with abortion…..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ceyisha/ Ceyisha

    I cant stress enough how much have a baby generally takes 2 to create but 1 can always change their mind. A woman can choose HER fate if she wants long as the choice is hers. The govt. and no one else should be allowed tell a woman what she can and cant do with her body. What they need to do is go after people who had kids and ended up killing them, the rapist who impregnates a woman and also gives her AIDS, starving kids, abusive parents, teen pregnancy, child slavery. Abortion isn’t a great thing but isn’t a bad thing either…… Casey Anthony should have had 1. the result was the same there. dirty truth.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    @Ceyisha see this is the issue. You rarely ever hear about hispanics and abortion. It’s mainly white people and black people. Hispanics are on pace to become the majority by 2050. They have already surpassed blacks as the major minority here. Blacks have been stuck at 13% of the population for decades and it is primarily due to abortion.

    This incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous loss of life. It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 16 million abortions. Michael Novak had calculated “Since the number of current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 36 million, the missing 16 million represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America’s Black community would now number 52 million persons. It would be 36 percent larger than it is. Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down every fourth member.”

    http://www.blackgenocide.org/black.html

    Maybe it’s just me but I would love to have 16 more million blacks here than any other race.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigmikedeezy/ bigmikedeezy

    id rather have 16 million people who grow up with both parents, and are wanted n loved regardless of their race than 16 million black kids who arent raised right

  • Anonymous

    We must stop killing our black babies. GIve them a chance to live. My people. my people.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lexistyles/ lexistyles

    I am pro-choice to some extent…If a woman is raped or if there is a health issue. The thing is that we have grown ass professional women having abortions because the timing is all wrong. We all know how babies are made. If you lay up and have sex, you know the consequences. Abortion shouldn’t be a quick fix. If you going to act like a woman, be a woman.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    LET’S NOT FORGET THE 100 MILLIONS OF BLACKS THAT WERE MURDERED BY CAUCASOIDS AND ARABS DURING THE SLAVE TRADE!!!!

    AND, ALSO THE NUMBER OF BLACKS WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY CAUCASOIDS SINCE OUR SO-CALLED FREEDOM!!! WHEN YOU TAKE AWAY THE BLACK MAN; YOU TAKE AWAY A FAMILY.

    WE ARE MORE THAN 13% OF THE UNUTED SNAKES; MORE LIKE 30% TO BE EXACT. WE HAVE BEEN 13% SINCE THE 1950′s. Haven’t we been making babies for the last 51 years too! Those stats are nothing, but stats…no truth!

    THE NAME OF THE GAME IS TO PRODUCE; NOT REDUCE BECAUSE THE BOTTOM LINE IS…CAUCASOIDS ARE DWINDLING AND WILL BE EXTINCT IN 70 MORE YEARS! THIS IS WHY THEY HAVE BEEN KILLING US SINCE COLONIAL TIMES UP TO THE PRESENT DAY!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    How soon y’all forget! The slave maker killed Black babies during our forced enslavement. He even cut the fetus out of dead Black wo-men, that were hanging from trees, and STOMPED on them! THESE WERE HIS BABIES WHEN HE RAPED OUR WO-MEN.

    This is what I’m talking about when these serpents print all this bullshyt about slavery and abortion. These criminals INVENTED this bullshyt; now they want to blame the Black wo-man and the Black man for their DIRTY DEEDS!

    WAKE-UP; WE ARE DEALING WITH DEVILS WHO HAVE BRAINWASHED Y’ALL TO BELIEVE YOU ARE KILLING YOUR BABIES…..THEY ARE DOING THIS ACT THROUGH BIRTH CONTROL, HYSTERECTOMIES AND STERILIZATION PROGRAMS AIMED AT BLACK WO-MEN!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KIR10/ KIR10

    Abortion is not the problem termination of a pregnancy is only the tragic end result. The problem is women who do not want to have a baby at a young age or women who already have kids non use, improper use or inconsistent use of Female Contraceptives which is easily correctable. Which makes abortion all the more tragic. Black women have 4x% of unplanned pregnancies of Asian women, 3x% of White women and 1.5x% of Hispanic women. Let’s be honest a lot of these pregnancies were from hookups not long term relationships. LMAO at the fake morality with no solution comments. Abortion is immoral. IMO However illegitimacy is the root cause of every single social issue within the African American community poor education, poverty, crime, drugs ect. It’s even the reason why a lot of black women will never marry. Working men with good jobs don’t want women with multiple baby daddies, fact.

    Black women are lying to these young girls. Stop asking these girls to do something that you were not able to do yourself. Condom should always be used, however, condoms Alone have never been an effective means of birth control for any race nor any nation. Condom use even for the most responsible monogumus young adults decreases over time. Condoms are good for short term hookups and prevention of STD’s. Demanding abstinence without offering alternatives for late teens and 20 year olds is laughable and reckless. Here’s the facts. Only 15 out of a 100 African American live pregnancies carried to term are by married A.A. couples. That means 85 out of 100 African American pregnancies end in either abortion 50% (50) or illegitimacy 70% aprox 35 (50x.7). People forget that most pregnancies are by young girls ie teens and young women (20′s).

    Fake Black Nationalist and ghetto voodoo phd’s preach about health risk conspiracies and use scare tatics about birth control causing infertility to anyone dumb enough to listen. They act as if sexually active women who DO NOT want to get pregnant have zero health risk by not using birth control, Wrong! The choice for almost all sexually active women is B.C., abortion or giving birth to a child often without a partner who is not committed. Those Are Risk EINSTEINS! For most women, especially young women, experts say the benefits of birth control pills far outweigh the risk. All medications affect each indivivual differently. There are over eight different forms of B.C., including female condoms, sponge and diaphragm each woman needs to find what works best for her. While there’s been a ton of research, there is still no hard evidence that B.C. causes cancer. None. Some women have small elevations of risk that return to the normal levels when birth control is discontinued. Some studies even suggest that the risk goes down for certain forms of cancer. There is also no evidence that birth control causes infertility, none. Female contraceptives are universally used by millions of informed women for the last 40 years including lawyers, doctors, chemist and scientist, biologist ect.. in every industrialized nation in the world. I’ve seen many studies of women who were on birth control for 5 or more years were able to conceive with in a short period of time after discontinuing use. Do you really believe these educated and informed women would take birth control if it made them infertile? Ghetto/hood logic is unfreaking believable. Just tell the truth of what’s going on in the hood.

    Women in industrialized nations thru-out the world have embraced contraceptives and have become empowered by it. Unfortunately, black women and black MEN in this country are still in the dark ages when it comes to birth control.

  • Anonymous

    The spirit of murder steals the life from the unborn, the born, and the nearly dead. This foul spirit’s thirst for blood is insatiable, and feeds off the hate we have of life. May the Lord bless those truly innocent mothers who are forced to make such a decision due to circ**stances beyond their control. And may He bless and keep the souls of those innocent ones who are murdered out of convenience.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    Dig this! cauasoid fe-males have been getting abortions for centuries AND BEFORE BLACK wo-men; who have integrated into this racist system. These rich white girls would ABORT their babies by going overseas (this was during the ’60′s), and come back home, then everything is jake! By the way…most of these white girls were having babies from Black males and their fathers, who raped them!!!!!!

    Black girls did not have the money to ABORT their babies; therefore, they had to have their babies. When the goverment saw that too many Black babies were being born….HERE COMES THE ‘PILL.’ This kind of ‘birth control’ has messed up the minds, bodies and Spirits of Black wo-men. Now, they are telling Black wo-men to abort their babies; just like their white counterparts have been doing and now we are reading racist anti-abortion stories like this one!

  • http://twitter.com/PmanSoFly Pman Sofly

    have you been a slave?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Aceman52/ Aceman52

    So white people are forcing black women to have sex with random men. The after the woman discovers she’s pregnant, these white people put a gun to her head and force her to have an abortion?? Whatever you are smoking you need to quit.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mr_P_/ Mr_P_

    Not feeling what you are saying! If yopu know the history of abortions then you would understand why ALOT of Black folks are opposed to abortions. I live in California, and I can tell you that black population is only about 7% out of 40million people and we have the highest number of abortions! The Latinos are not having abortions, Asians are not having abortions, but blacks are.. know why because they value family, and they are not brainwashed.. They can careless who white folks view them.. they can careless about the statistics and all the other government stats… When you get a min check out Abortion in the Black Communityhttp://www.goodgameradio.com/abortion-black-community/

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/laid01/ laid01

    hmmmmmmmmmmmm…. it wasn’t intended to be derogatory as they are fighting for a cause that has plagued the minority communities since the introduction of “planned parenthood” in 1916

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/phazex_female/ phazex_female

    Hmmm. Since sistas have aborted several million babies since 1973, WHERE were the euro-clown females getting THEIR abortions?

    Answer: Out of the Country! Like Mexico City and elsewhere out of the country. Stats that have never been reported unlike federally-funded abortions that are reported to the CDC as well.

    A brother here stated the facts–and it works BOTH ways: Working men/women with good jobs don’t want women/men with multiple baby daddies/mommas. And more pregnancies DO stem from brief, sexual encounters without true committment.

    Abortion is a procedure of “convenience.” Oops! I did not feel like using anything. Oops! No worries! I’ll just get it flushed down the tubes. Lazy! Lazy! Lazy! And the WORST excuse: being sucked in by an imbecile that “doesn’t have a pot to piss in, nor a window to throw it out of.” Sista, your brain is not between your legs nor your self-esteem. Abortion has always been “out there and available.” And TARGETED at sistas and poor women. Many sistas did not and do not have a clue why abortion mills are strategically placed in poor neighborhoods. When you do find one in an upper class area? It’s called “the doctor’s private office.” Check it.

    Time for the madness to STOP. 1973…to this so-called new millenium. The number of babies aborted that could have been saved and THINK how our race could have proliferated. The Mexicans are smart. They could not do it economically, so they just broke the law, border-jumped and shot out babies like torpedos. They now have the “numbers. ” Hint: Your government “allowed” them to border-jump, etc. Catch the clue.

    Don’t you think that’s odd that the “percentage” for Blacks REMAINS ABOUT THE SAME?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KIR10/ KIR10

    Did you read what I wrote? The reason those groups are not having abortions is becuase they are having fewer unplanned pregnancies. Also, California does not report abortion stats to the CDC. It’s hard to verify accuracy with that state. More people does not issure anything without responsible committed parents. 65% of all A.A. pregnancies are by teenagers. Think about that

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Iwillbfree/ Iwillbfree

    I got that ‘holy ghost’ that you and your comrades get ‘high’ off of! Perhaps you need to smoke some ‘holy smoke’ instead of that ‘holy ghost’ because after reading your backsground; I see why you love caucaoids! Now, bring me a steak, WELL DONE!!!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smittyboy7/ smittyboy7

    It’s really amazing to me with all this white honky racism going on in the world.They still have articles about how and why black women should expand their options for sleeping around with whitemen.The same a*****es who put up this billboards.

    Black people are really stupid.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smittyboy7/ smittyboy7

    Now that comment is the truth, because i remember when i was a kid it was only white women getting abortions.They would get one in a minute,plus i personnally don’t know or have heard of any black women getting an abortion.It was always a white woman’s thing.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_A_/ _A_

    “Like other similar campaigns, the new slavery billboard is based on the conspiracy theory that abortion is actually a secret plot by groups like Planned Parenthood to execute “Black Genocide,” since the African American community has a higher rate of abortions than whites.”

    I’m perplexed as to why this is labeled a CONSPIRACY THEORY when this was the stated goal of the founder of KLANNED PARENTHOOD. This org is seeking to re-brand itself by making those who bring up Margret Sanger and her belief in Eugenics and her connection to abortion in the black community, appear to be the ones with fitted tin foil hats. If you read history, you won’t fall for these simplistic ploys!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    Hell no, BOTH side of my familie had been FREE FYI, and BOTH owned land in Virginia and in Alabama, since you want to call me out, Mr/Mrs Arrogent, or whoever the hell you are, SMDH…..
    Now, have YOU been a slave?????

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lovethemseasoned/ lovethemseasoned

    They embrace Klanned Parenthood because of their support from the Democrats

  • Anonymous

    GENOCIDE by any other name smells just as foul. theres too many of us,says the nice white people here have some abortions;negro say lets do some mental backflips an’pretend we here to die fo’ yall…there not enough money to go round anyway and its n####s fault as usual

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