{"id":187767,"date":"2018-08-30T14:39:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T19:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=187767"},"modified":"2018-08-31T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T19:00:07","slug":"pro-life-condemn-abortion-billboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-condemn-abortion-billboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life leaders condemn ‘sick’ abortion billboard targeting Black women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you look at the history of the abortion<\/a> movement, both in America and worldwide, it has roots in the population control and eugenics movement. Many would argue that these roots still run deep. Planned Parenthood, in fact, was founded by a eugenics and population control advocate, Margaret Sanger. She spoke out often against having too many of the poor or the disabled, believing they were “unfit” to reproduce. While she never definitively came out as a racist<\/a>, in Sanger’s time, most minorities were poor.<\/p>\n

A 2011 report found<\/a> that the majority of Planned Parenthood centers are located in minority communities. And Black women abort at\u00a0disproportionately high<\/a> rates. So imagine pro-lifers’ disgust at seeing a billboard actually encouraging Black women to kill their preborn children as part of “self-care,” under the guise of “taking care of their families.” But this isn’t self-care. It’s killing:<\/p>\n