{"id":218778,"date":"2020-02-22T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T19:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=218778"},"modified":"2020-02-22T02:30:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T08:30:35","slug":"pro-life-billboards-abortion-blocked-black-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-billboards-abortion-blocked-black-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life leader: Billboards against abortion are being blocked in Black communities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a Christian Post article<\/a> this week, pro-life “factivist” Ryan Bomberger brought to light the refusal of certain advertising companies to run pro-life billboard ads, particularly\u00a0those purchased to run in Black communities, where abortion rates are skyrocketing.<\/p>\n

The Radiance Foundation<\/a>, started by Bomberger and his wife Bethany, launched the\u00a0Too Many Aborted<\/a>\u00a0pro-life ad campaign in 2010, which was\u00a0successful in informing women and men about helpful resources in their communities, including pregnancy centers, giving them options other than abortion. However, more recently, when The Radiance Foundation attempted to advertise a new line of pro-life ads pointing out the effects of\u00a0abortion on the Black community\u00a0— “WhatAbortionReallyIs<\/a>” — the ads were refused by the advertising companies Outfront and ClearChannel. Each of the ads pictured an African-American behind varying messages like, “Abortion is injustice everywhere,” “Abortion is genocide,” and “Abortion is fake feminism.”<\/p>\n

The abortion industry has targeted the Black community<\/a> since the founding days of Planned Parenthood by eugenicist Margaret Sanger, and this continues today<\/a>. As a result, the abortion rate among\u00a0Black women<\/a> is much higher<\/a>\u00a0— about 3.8 times higher<\/a> — than that of White women in the United States.<\/p>\n