Obama Featured On Chicago Anti-Abortion Billboards Targeting Black South Siders

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.

Life Always is expected to unveil billboards featuring Obama's face and the words "Every 21 minutes, our next possible leader is aborted" on Tuesday at 11 a.m. The first billboard will be near an empty lot at 5812 S. State Street, according to a press release from Life Always.

"Our future leaders are being aborted at an alarming rate," Life Always Board Member Reverend Derek McCoy said in a statement. "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."

The group's New York billboard, which read "The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb," was taken down after Soho residents and members of the black community voiced their outrage.

Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton said the New York billboard "depicted black women in an unfair way," according to the Chicago Sun-Times. He praised Lamar Advertising's decision to remove it.

The billboard is part of a growing trend in the anti-abortion community that accuses abortion providers of "black genocide" via abortions.

Planned Parenthood issued a statement calling the New York billboard "an offensive and condescending effort to stigmatize and shame African-American women, while attempting to discredit the work of Planned Parenthood."

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, Rev. Ceasar LeFlore, Rev. Derek A. McCoy and Pastor Stephen Broden, an anti-abortion activist who ran for office as a Republican in Texas last year.

Comments

[Apathy Man]

01:55 AM on 04/04/2011

i wonder how effective an add like this would be if it had a white president on it? George the lesser perhaps?

[Linda Binda]

07:49 AM on 04/03/2011

Never understood the moronic naivete that goes into saying things like "abortion is murder!" and "your child could cure cancer!" :( It's hilariously stupid.

We have, what, 7 billion people on earth? The last problem we humans have on this planet is a population shortage. Never understood the great "wisdom" behind making incompetent jackoffs and hapless single women have children they can't afford and are too untalented to raise. Wouldn't the child suffer more being alive in a wanting household, within a horrible environment, than in a quick, painless death, long before it would ever know pain and suffering, with its parents acknowledging their inability to provide for its needs?

Abortion, if anything, is mercy, not murder. If you know you're going to make a horrible parent, for all that is good in this world, don't force yourself! Nip the problem in the bud before it gets worse, before your prospective child lives a horrible life either being unwanted, or in foster care. (Adopted by people who actually love you as a person and not as a status symbol? You're lucky!) At this modern era, you have plenty of options, so there is no point in forcing yourself into doing things you no longer have to do.

Pro-lifers could also look at it this way: anyone "horrible" enough to abort a child? That child is better off, then, don't you think?

Damned busybodies.

[hollyann1963]

09:56 PM on 03/31/2011

I had another thought about this problem. The young men making babies with these women and then decide they don't want it, just walk away. The women cannot just walk away. Yet they are the ones condemned. You want to decrease the number of abortions? MAKE the young men be held responsible. Children need both parents and in todays world both parents need to work.

[RepublicSupporter]

01:57 PM on 03/31/2011

Re: "Planned Parenthood issued a statement calling the New York billboard "an offensive and condescending effort to stigmatize and shame African-American women, while attempting to discredit the work of Planned Parenthood.""

If Planned Parenthood spent even a short time counseling women to consider any of the possible alternatives to an unplanned pregnancy, they would not think it was 'condescending, stigmatizing or shameful' to encourage a woman to consider life's possibilities for her unborn child.


Yes, the work of Planned Parenthood should be discredited in every conceivable way.

Kudos to Life Always!

[Apathy Man]

01:52 AM on 04/04/2011

Have you ever been in a planned parenthood or are you talking out of the wrong end?

[Just4theHalibut]

11:22 AM on 04/13/2011

Planned Parenthood DOES inform woman about ALL options.

So you want to "discredit" the 95% of its work which is cervical cancer and STD screening, and contraception??

Kudos to Planned Parenthood for helping make every child a wanted child!

[John Anthony773]

06:43 PM on 03/30/2011

Its amazing how these pro birth people can make statements like this and have the audacity to call themselves pro life

[Fetus]

05:03 PM on 03/30/2011

I am jilted that they didn't ask to use my image.

[Gillian Parrillo]

04:14 PM on 03/30/2011

No, i think the most dangerous place for an African American is the inner city when the Republican budget cuts take effect.

[Mafdet]

03:39 PM on 03/30/2011

Well this kind of campaign just churns all kinds of ugly truths to the surface.  Like:  The ability to control reproduction is the most important factor in rising from the lower to the middle class in America.  So poor people avail themselves of abortion services more than others.  They would avail themselves of the full regimen of preventive health care...but they are poor.  And while in this country, if you are black or hispanic, it is not necessarily the case that you are poor...in this country if you are poor, more than likely you are black or hispanic.
 
So what problems should we really be addressing if our goal is to have a stable society built on stable families?

[brainfire]

10:12 AM on 03/30/2011

GOP Platform: we so love & fight for the ((Un-Born)) ~ until you're ((Born)), no to WIC, assistance to low income Women & Children :-/ No to collective bargaining, No affordable health care, no to Fair wages, Unions, & No to you keeping your home, No to common sense regulations that protect you once you're here, No to your pension and retirement....We only love the Unborn as a Wedge Campaign Slogan :-/
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[darleneslee]

08:05 AM on 03/30/2011

I find the solution quite simple in this debate. Why don't all these advocates of other peoples lives take one of these "not wanted " children home and raise them. Some of these children are wanted ,but for personal reasons choices are made for the good of the individual or family are aborted. If they feel that strongly about other people's business and want to interfere as strongly as they do, then step up and take a child home with them. It will clear the clutter of political debate and make life so much easier for the rest of us who believe in the right to choose.

[Sisa]

07:59 AM on 03/30/2011

I am against abortion... But I'll be damned to try and ram my belief down someone elses throat... It is not a political issue it is a personal moral or religious choice! Funny how the dimwits who cry that our president is a Muslim and wants to force sharia law upon us ( which is all untrue) are the same clowns trying to force thier bend on some form of Mosaic law onto us? Crap we need a billboard showing the GOP incumbents like Walker and Santorum and Grinrich etc... saying our next leader could be aborted!

[2theotherside]

02:23 AM on 03/30/2011

Abortion is infanticide. How many more babies need to die?

[ninthraphael]

03:03 AM on 03/30/2011

We've been killing people in our wars, industrial pollutions, and government neglect and you're magnifying a medical procedures that will either save another human being physically or mentally. The Rights presbyopic look at things really defies any human logic. You don't like genocide? Then let us campaign for a cleaner environment, stop all kind of war, make our leader responsible for every person who die without seeing a doctor because of lack of health insurance, : make effort in preventing another veteran from killing himself because of the emotional trauma of war they were in: prevent another family from losingntheir house!

[susierr]

07:26 AM on 03/30/2011

Well said ninthraphael~

[readmoreandoften]

08:29 PM on 03/30/2011

Uh huh, that's what this is all about. Now, if what you're saying is true, why do the so-called pro-life rally against contraception too? Yeah, sorry to inform you, they're all about reproductive control. They don't care a whit about the "babies."

[lakefront liberal]

12:23 AM on 03/30/2011

There are 5 living presidents. There were 18,361 homocides in the US in 2007. Someone living today is over 3600 times more likely to commit a homocide in any given year than be president. Why aren't they putting up billboards to try to stop the the murders of living and breathing people right now rather than worrying about woman's right to choose how to lead her life.

[sistahfriend]

02:36 AM on 03/30/2011

Because they want to act like they care!

[ninthraphael]

03:04 AM on 03/30/2011

Fanned!

[Jeff Lassiter]

11:02 PM on 03/29/2011

Put a picture of Sarah Palin or Donal;d Trump and abortions would skyrocket

[hollyann1963]

11:00 PM on 03/29/2011

I said this last night, but I think it's worth repeating. It is hard get my point across but I'll try. I do believe that abortion is murder, that said, I do not close my eyes and say, "If it is illegal no abortions will happen and no babies will die." In reality it is only a wish and a prayer. Not only do babies die in back room abortions or by the girls trying to do it themselves but the girls die too. It is beyond sad but should the girl die too or have the abortion done in a sanitary environmen­t?

[southingtonian]

01:15 AM on 04/03/2011

before 1973 the girls did die, and the comments I overheard said they got what they deserved, not for having an abortion, but for getting pregnant! That hateful hypocrisy had a lot to do with my refusal to remain in an organized religion.