Anti-Abortion Billboards In Metro Area

By Rose Scott

Atlanta, GA – Right now 65 anti-abortion billboards funded by Georgia Right to Life can be seen throughout the metro area and more are schedule to go up.
The group's director says the billboards are countering a movement to eradicate black babies and blames organizations like Planned Parenthood.
WABE's Rose Scott reports on the billboard controversy:

The billboards are black and white photographs of African American babies the words black children are an endangered species read across the top
and the website too-many- aborted dot com is across the bottom.

Catherine Davis the director of Georgia Right to Life says the billboards are to bring awareness about the disparity between white and minority women:

((we are trying to educate the black community about abortion and the motivation behind the abortion industry in the hopes that we would begin to make different with regards to bearing our children))

But Leola Reese with Planned Parenthood of Georgia finds the billboards offensive:

((these billboards are outrageous, inaccurate and insulting all women need proven solutions to their problems rather messages of fear and shame))

According to a 2009 report from the Centers for Disease Control 57-percent of all reported abortions in Georgia were by African American woman.
Davis cites those percentages as basis for what her organization believes is a form of genocide.
And she specifically cites Planned Parenthood:

(( their founder, Margaret Sanger had a project that she called the negro project where she told Dr. Charles Gamble in a Dec. 10th 1939 letter that if they wanted to exterminate us, the black pastor was the one that could help carry that message))

Leola Re with Planned Parenthood of Georgia counters by saying Georgia Right to Life is deliberately misleading the African American community:

((that kind of language is just completely insulting, the people who care about our community should be joining our advocacy efforts to improve access to things like Peachcare and preventative health services for women and children all around this state))

More than 90 of the anti-abortion billboards will be up until March.