Pro-Life Billboard Activists Target Chicago with Obama Image
The Huffington Post reported "An anti-abortion group behind a controversial New York billboard targeting African Americans is now taking its message to the South Side of Chicago, in a billboard targeting supporters of President Obama." Next to Obama's face is the words "Every 21 minutes, our next possible leader is aborted." The group Life Always will unveil the billboards on Tuesday.
"Our future leaders are being aborted at an alarming rate. These are babies who could grow to be the future Presidents of the United States, or the next Oprah Winfrey, Denzel Washington or Maya Angelou," said Life Always Board Member Reverend Derek McCoy.
The billboard states: "Every 21 minutes, our next possible leader is aborted." The image of President Obama faces the capitalized word "leader," and readers are directed to visit thatsabortion.com.
Over 30 billboards will be placed in South Chicago to encourage reflection on the disproportionate number of abortions among African Americans. Census and CDC reports state that African Americans comprise less than 13 percent of the population and about 36 percent of the country's abortions.
The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 25,196 abortions in Cook County, Illinois in 2009.
According to Life Always, 30 billboards featuring President Obama and the anti-choice message will be placed on the South Side of Chicago in coming weeks. Some local black leaders will be on hand Tuesday for the first billboard's unveiling, including former 2nd Congressional district GOP candidate Rev. Isaac Hayes.
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Good! It's about time.
Submitted by c5then on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 8:07am.
No one knows what the potential of the unborn baby might be.
Regardless of the circumstances of the pregnancy, to punish the baby with death is an abomination.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
Good! Ought to grab peoples minds. In the face.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 8:14am.
This could be used for other messages as well, like calling out the MSM on ignored stories etc.
According to Life Always, 30
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 8:30am.
According to Life Always, 30 billboards featuring President Obama and the anti-choice message will be placed on the South Side of Chicago in coming weeks.
The anti-choice message???
Please, Tim, tell me those are not your words; that you are quoting someone else!!
Ahh, Nothing Like Fresh Propaganda At 3 In The Afternoon...
Submitted by TheReal7Sticks on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 6:20pm.
The next thing you're going to tell me is that Margaret Sanger had invented Planned Parenthood as an attempt to ethnically cleanse the black community in America. That's what all these anti-abortion activists have tried to claim for so many years without any concrete evidence other than loony conspiracy theorists and crackpots like Judith Reisman. Please, you give the pro-life movement a bad name when you engage in the kind of tactics leftist activists traditionally do. If you're going to go down the same road as Media Matters in pushing propaganda instead of identifying media bias, then I think I'll just leave and masturbate to celebrity sex tapes. I say good day to you, sir.
7Stupids
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 6:23pm.
Besides being ignorant about many topics, including Sanger, you are disgusting.
Liberals aren't pro-choice
Submitted by Clutch1956 on Wed, 03/30/2011 - 8:30pm.
They are pro-abortion. They won't let you choose how to spend educational monies (they oppose vouchers), they won't let you invest the money that the government takes at the point of a gun the way you want to but requires you to invest in the broken Ponzi scheme called Social Security, they won't let us drill for our own oil (they oppose us being energy-independent unless it is "green"), etc. Liberals are ANTI-choice, but they ARE pro-abortion.