Huge Manhattan billboard spotlighting black abortions sparks huge controversy
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In the wake of the release by the New York City Health Dept. of abortion statistics showing 60% of black pregnancies in Gotham end in abortion, the group Life Always has just erected a huge billboard spotlighting the truth that “the most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb.”
The billboard comes conveniently at a time when the NYC Council is considering a bill that targets pregnancy care centers and also during Black History Month.
But the target of the billboard is Planned Parenthood, according to the group’s press release…
The billboard is about half a mile from one of three New York City Planned Parenthood abortion facilities which jointly reported nearly 17,000 abortions in 2010….
The campaign launch is designed to raise public awareness of PP’s targeting of minority neighborhoods….
PP’s annual report states that they perform 300,000+ abortions annually.
… which makes the billboard also timely regarding attempts on the federal level to stop taxpayer funding to PP.
Already Life Always’ billboard, which directs people to a website with an amazing name, has garnered worldwide media attention. The Telegraph’s headline said the billboard “sparks outrage.” Pro-aborts are understandably apoplectic. According to CNN:
“They’re attacking women for choosing abortion while simultaneously destroying family planning,” said spokeswoman Mary Alice Carr for the NY-based National Institute for Reproductive Health. “Their hypocrisy is as large and as obnoxious as this billboard.”
I’ll tell you what’s obnoxious, Mary. Supporting a type of “family planning” that results in more abortions than not. According to Guttmacher 54% of girls and women were using contraception the month they got pregnant.
Added the Huffington Post:
But some local politicians, like City Council Member Letitia James [pictured right], find the message crass.
“It is misguided to use Black History Month as a tool to promote this message,” James said in a statement. “Every woman has the right to make personal choices in regards to her body, and I respect many different points of view, but to compare abortion to terrorism and genocide is highly offensive.”
I’ll tell you what’s crass and offensive, Letitia: an African-American targeting more African-Americans for genocide, as you’re doing by co-sponsoring Bill #371.
PP will sponsor a rally for support this weekend, headlined by goats and has beens, according to The Gothamist:
In a statement, PP called the billboard “a reprehensible tactic. PP knows that every woman, of every background, takes her health decisions seriously and makes deeply personal decisions after consulting with her doctor and with loved ones she trusts.”
This Saturday, pro-choice groups will be holding a rally to protest a recent bill passed in the House of Representatives that would block federal funding to PP. The rally will be held at Foley Square, downtown by City Hall, from 1 to 3 p.m. Gloria Steinem and Kathleen Turner are among the scheduled speakers, and Kathleen Hanna, Nellie McKay and The Mountain Goats will perform.
It would be great to read Sunday that more pro-lifers turned out for this event than pro-aborts, especially activists holding huge photos showing what PP does.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
May I ask, in my usual impudent “anti-choice” fashion, why there is a “controversy” here? Is not the message on the sign, after all, true? Is it now “controversial” to speak the truth? Apparently so.
What is truly “obnoxious” and offensive is that Mary Alice Carr of the obscenely misnamed National Institute For “Reproductive” “Health” (actually “Prenatal Homicide”, translating into plain English) will be supporting, and Letitia James will be aiding and abetting, the crime of killing tens of thousands of unborn children of all races in New York City.
We of course have the usual completely empty drivel from Planned Parenthood about “health decisions” and “deeply personal decisions” regarding violence against the unborn. What difference does it make how “seriously” a decision is taken if it leads to the commission of a violent crime against another human being?
Why do they feel the need to use this kind of empty and inane language when discussing the killing of human beings before we are born? Does it ever occur to them the extreme intellectual dishonesty and deceit on their part that this demonstrates? Do they even care?
If I were an opponent of unborn human rights, I would want to use plain and honest language to defend my position and would be disgusted by the absurdity, irrationality and utter mindlessness of Planned Parenthood and all other anti-human being pressure groups.
A prolife billboard in NYC?
That’s kicking a real hornets’ nest right there.
Where exactly does this billboard compare abortion to genocide or terrorism?
In psychology, we call that “projecting.”
Planned Parenthood wants to be the center of the trust they say the women need to have.
They haven’t proven to be trustworthy.
Fantastic billboard! Jill, you nailed it when you said the pro-aborts are “apoplectic.” This must be making them crazy. Some compassionate soul should send Cecile a bouquet of Excedrin Migraine. ;)
“Women’s health”, “personal decision”, “her own body”, “family planning”. They keep regurgitating and spewing the same pack of lies. They appear to be brain dead, brainwashed zombies.
America is awakening to the reality that abortion is killing innocent life and these lifeless mannequins of death appear increasingly shallow and cold for their hatred of children.
When you boil it all down to its core, their attitude is, “We want to have sex with whomever we want, when we want, and if we conceive a child, we’re gonna kill it.”
Abortion is genocide.
Don’t just read it, think about it, meditate on it. Hate the injustice enough to act.
While I condemn all physical violence against executioners of prenatal homicide, I aggressively promote spiritual violence against the spirits that empower them, Ep 6.10-18, Mt 11.12
The ProLife Majority Coalition of Chattanooga gathered once a week to pray workers at the Chattanooga Women’s Clinic either into God’s Kingdom or out of their neighborhood. They were so successful, they were able to pray the two co-owners out of the neighborhood, off the planet and right into eternity.
It only took 4 years.
God is demanding of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in America, whom He has given authority, power and dominion in His Name, “The god of this world is killing thousands of My children in your neighborhoods every day.”
“What are you going to do about it?”
C’mon church, let’s rise up in the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ and pray these killing centers out of our neighborhoods.
It’s always so interesting to me what even in their own statements, they acknowledge. Take the following:
“…every woman, of every background, takes her health decisions seriously and makes deeply personal decisions after consulting with her doctor and with loved ones she trusts.”
Now, if abortion is comparable to a tonsillectomy or wisdom tooth extraction, why this “we don’t take it lightly” defense? No exhaustive consultation or even deep consideration necessary, much less input from family–her body, her choice, isn’t that the mantra?
On the other hand, if abortion kills a living human being (not her body), then what was just described, if used as an argument for someone committing violence against a person outside of his/her mother’s womb, simply constitutes premeditation. If I killed one of my born children and said, “But I thought long and hard about it, consulted my clergy and physician and my mother-in-law first,” how would that make what I did any better? It wouldn’t.
So I ask any and all proaborts to pick a story and stick to it or (here’s a thought) consider why you feel a need to defend the gravity with which you make your decision if abortion does not end a human being’s life. Just to clarify, it is NOT ‘taking abortion lightly’ the pro-life position opposes. It’s the premeditated (yup) lethal violence against human beings who, because of their vulnerability, most deserve protection.
“A prolife billboard in NYC?
That’s kicking a real hornets’ nest right there.”
I actually think I see more “Pregnant? Scared? Free abortion alternatives!” signs in NYC than most other places I’ve been familiar with. Could just have something to do with the relatively high amount of time people in NYC tend to spend in public places.
It is worth noting that, while 1/2 mile away sounds very close, in “NYC space” this is not really that close to the Planned Parenthood. You would not encounter one while on your way to the other, you’d take different trains to get to either location, etc. But the billboard has a real possibility to be seen by commuters heading out of the city, and the Bolt Bus has a pick-up point there.
As if. When I was a PP client, there was no relationship with a doctor.
Loved ones she trusts? Having your mother threaten to kick you out if you don’t kill her grandchild is not exactly a trusted loved one.
Incredible!
I mean in a good way. It’s a powerful message that needs to be told.
The NY liberals are choking to death on their bile.
Their outrage will be their undoing. I’m cataloging every quote. They have shown no outrage that 60% of black pregnancies end in abortion. They haven’t demanded a commissioning of studies to discover why so many black women feel the imperative to abort, and it causes one to wonder just where their threshold of outrage might lie:
70%
80%
90%
95%
100% ???
Where?? If these beasts can’t agree that 60% of black pregnancies ending in abortion is too many, then every black in NYC should take note.
Meet the new overseers.
I was actually amazed that NBC News here in the NYC area reported on this billboard the other day, both on the 6pm and 11pm newscasts. The report showed a quick commentary from the folks who put it up, but only a “regurgitated talking points” statement from PP.
Awesome that it made it to the MSM!
Where exactly does this billboard compare abortion to genocide or terrorism?
It doesn’t. I think it’s very moving and effective, and hopefully it will get people talking about the issue.
I don’t know what’s wrong with all these black politicians sponsoring bills like this when the CPC’s serve many women of color. It’s very disheartening.
Hi phillymiss,
I think black politicians are first and foremost Democrats and blind loyalty to the Democrat Party supercedes all. So what if the Democrat Party founded the KKK and instituted segregation in the south? So what if a Democrat senator was a former klansman and klan recruiter who filibustered civil and voting rights legislation?
phillymiss, can you tell me why black Americans give their blind loyalty to the Democrat Party?
I’m sickened…. CBS News just reported that the billboard has been taken down by the sign company. Three weeks early. And they showed numerous people “glad they took it down, it was offensive/racist.” and of course Al Sharpton had to chime in. HELLLLLOOOO!! It’s not racist!! It’s telling the black community that they are aborting TOO MANY OF THEIR CHILDREN!! It’s racist to hide that fact!!!
Peg,
The bill board is down? Wow.
I guess they’d rather bury their heads in the sand than confront the truth. Lord have mercy.
Hi Peg,
Exactly what you expect from a Democrat Party shill and race huckster like Al Sharpton. As I pointed out, loyalty to the Democrats and their policies is always first and foremost. Otherwise Sharpton would have to find another way to make a living.
wake up people!! Its a embryo, then a fetus..until it can live outside the womb on its own accord is it a life.
Stay away from my right to choose. No one is forcing you to have an abortion, but your forcing your beliefs (usually religiously based) on me and other women. Keep your religion to yourself. I don’t force my atheism on you.
And where are all you anti-abortionists after the baby is born. Are you willing to financially support/house/feed a mother and child throughout its life?
“One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.”
To Kateri. You go girl. I agree with you completely. Stay away from my right to choose. Quit forcing your beliefs (usually religiously based) on me. Are you willing to support my child? Leave my right to abandon children up to the age of two alone.
wake up people!! Its a embryo, then a fetus..until it can live outside the womb on its own accord is it a life.
Ya know, just when I think maybe pro-aborts are going to finally compose real, actual arguments, I read comments life this one.
Kateri, by its very simple, biological definition, an embryo or fetus is alive. Therefore, it is a life. A human embryo or fetus is human and alive. Period.
Stay away from my right to choose. No one is forcing you to have an abortion, but your forcing your beliefs (usually religiously based) on me and other women. Keep your religion to yourself. I don’t force my atheism on you.
Nobody gives a crap about your atheism here. Please explain to me how the facts that human embryos/fetuses are human and alive are “religiously based beliefs.” I am getting to the point where I think people who throw out this junk “argument” that abortion is a “religious” issue are just plain lazy. L-A-Z-Y. Too lazy to actually think for yourselves. Nope, you’d rather vomit up the tripe you’ve been fed without any use of your brain whatsoever.
And where are all you anti-abortionists after the baby is born. Are you willing to financially support/house/feed a mother and child throughout its life?
Short answer: Yep.
Where are we? We’re on adoption waiting lists. We’re foster parents. We’re managing and operating crisis pregnancy centers. We’re operating maternity homes and homes for new mothers. We’re working in homeless shelters, drug rehab programs, social service agencies. We’re out there working and paying the taxes that you want to use to get your free abortions, honey. We’re here. Just waiting for you to look beyond your own little world to consider another human being just for a second.
KEL!!! You are the cat’s meow!!
I love you!!
To call the tragically high abortion rate among black women in America genocide is the height of disingenuousness and intellectual dihonesty. It’s the result of POVERTY,not some imaginary sinister plot to extrminate blacks in America. Calling this tragic situation
“genocide” is a crock.
Don’t you anti-choicers realize that it there were more government help available to these unfortunate black women,and poor pregnant women in general, there would be far fewer abortions in America? And please don’t give me all that poppycock about all the help supposedly available to poor pregnant women.That’s another crock. There isn’t even remotely close to enough help available to them in the private sector.
If anything,the real racism is the U.S. government’s utter failure to help poor blacks. enough. Pure baloney.
“Pure baloney.”
Yum!
To Kel:
Just because something is alive doesn’t mean its a LIFE. It still must live within the host to survive. By your definition, all organisms (including bacteria and plants) are a life since they are alive.
And I do think for myself and would like to continue too. Thats what this is all about: THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE FOR ONESELF!
And if all this “help” was out there, there would be no homeless children/families
And I know all about adoption lists, being the proud mommy of two adopted children. Their birthmoms had a choice and they made it.
Just because something is alive doesn’t mean its a LIFE.
Yes, it does. Living plants are plant life. Living animals are animal life.
By your definition, all organisms (including bacteria and plants) are a life since they are alive.
Correct. However, not all organisms are human life. However, all living things have life and are life.
And I do think for myself and would like to continue too. Thats what this is all about: THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE FOR ONESELF!
You do not have unlimited rights to choose for yourself. The choice to abort, to take an innocent human being’s life, is not like choosing what style of shoe you want to wear that day or what brand of peanut butter you want on your sandwich. It is the choice to end the life of a unique, living human being in utero.
And if all this “help” was out there, there would be no homeless children/families
And I know all about adoption lists, being the proud mommy of two adopted children. Their birthmoms had a choice and they made it.
Interesting. So, you offered “help” to two children by adopting them, yet you continue to insist that there is no help available to women who become pregnant?
Homelessness is not the result of unplanned pregnancy, but of varying socioeconomic factors.
Were your children alive while in their mothers’ wombs? Do you or their birthmothers have ultrasound photos of them? What changed about them, intrinsically, from the time they were at the cervix to the time they emerged from the birth canal?
Carla- I love you, too, girl! :D
Don’t you anti-choicers realize that it there were more government help available to these unfortunate black women,and poor pregnant women in general, there would be far fewer abortions in America?
What do you care, Robert? You think it’s “better to be aborted than to live in poverty,” remember? Unless you’ve suddenly decided to become pro-life and pro-aid for pregnant women?
What changed about them, intrinsically, from the time they were at the cervix to the time they emerged from the birth canal?
What changed is that they were born and could live outside the uterus. At the time of an abortion, they have not yet developed into a human being.
So, you offered “help” to two children by adopting them, yet you continue to insist that there is no help available to women who become pregnant?
No I did not help them, they helped me. In my late 20’s I wanted nothing more than to be a mom but I couldn’t. In my teens I did not want to be a mom, nor could I have handled it or afforded it.
It is the choice to end the life of a unique, living human being in utero.
Being in utero, not having yet a personality, they are not unique beings. They only have a potential to be in the future. So I do not believe it is yet a human life, only something that has a potential to be.
What changed about them, intrinsically, from the time they were at the cervix to the time they emerged from the birth canal?
What changed is that they were born and could live outside the uterus. At the time of an abortion, they have not yet developed into a human being.
Being in utero, not having yet a personality, they are not unique beings. They only have a potential to be in the future. So I do not believe it is yet a human life, only something that has a potential to be.
That is your belief. Not a fact, and certainly not based on science. Thank you for clarifying this. You’re not the only pro-abort who’s in denial about the science of preborn human life. But at least the pro-aborts who make sense honestly admit that preborn humans are indeed, human.
Sperm and egg, before they unite, have the potential to produce unique human offspring. Once the gametes have fused, you have a new, unique human life, not “potential.”
Being in utero, not having yet a personality, they are not unique beings. They only have a potential to be in the future. So I do not believe it is yet a human life, only something that has a potential to be.
P.S. – having a scientifically distinguishable “personality” or not having one does not intrinsically alter whether one is or is not a member of the human race.
Kateri – do you have an abortion history? I’m just wondering – and there is much help for that if you are in that position. I have a girlfriend who had such a history and that ruined her chance to have a child of her own: the abortion made her infertile.
She now, thankfully, is an adoptive mom. And THANK GOODNESS that mother who had that child let that child live. Even if a woman can not take care of a child for a variety of reasons, allowing that child to live allows that child to be brought up by foster or adoptive parents. Thank goodness the mother of your adoptive children had her children live. That is a huge gift, and i imagine that you would agree.
on another matter – if a child is not a person until birth, and since the gestational age of EVERY baby differs (they are born at different times) why is it that birth is the litmus test of value? If a baby is born one day early, is that baby better or not a baby because of another born one day later? I’d like to understand more. If you could, please illuminate! Thanks.
Also – unborn children are indeed human and with value. They are not potential humans, but humans with potential. We all have value – no matter our functioning, degree of dependence, size, location, sex, creed or any such thing.
If we are human, we are part of the family – our human family.
My youngsters went through all their stages of development so far – unborn, new-born, toddler, youngster, pre-teen, teen and young adult. Both are growing up beautifully. And each of them were human at every stage. They not only have worth to me, but to the world as well.
And all humans have that – even if only for others to treat them well through their illnesses, deformities, disabilities etc. But we know that this goes much deeper than that, for sure.
An embryo has no rights, it is only potential not an actual person and it should not have rights that override the rights of the woman until it is viable. At the time of an abortion, it is not a baby. If it were born it would not survive. It is not a baby.
I am very thankful that the birthmom of my children chose to carry there children to term. That was their choice and no one elses. And if they chose not to carry a child that would have been their choice also.
Its about a women’s right to privacy and to decide whether or not she wants to carry a child.
Whether or not to continue with a pregnancy is an inviolable personal choice, as it involves a woman’s body, personal health, and future.