Anti-abortion activists have been accused of exploiting America's tragic racial history with a growing campaign to persuade black women that the high rate of terminations among African Americans is a racist conspiracy on a par with slavery and lynching.
The campaign, launched in Georgia, is targeting the black community with rallies, meetings in churches and colleges, and billboards around Atlanta that describe black children as an endangered species and accuse abortion providers of targeting African Americans for what are described as "womb lynchings"...
... The organisation hired a black woman, Catherine Davis, who visited college campuses and churches to push the message that abortion is a successor to slavery and lynching. Davis accuses abortion providers of establishing a "vast network" of clinics in black neighbourhoods."The abortion industry is targeting the black woman," she said. "There is no lynch mob wearing white sheets and hoods. What they've done is take off the hoods and put on suits and say: let's go and kill the black people. It's cloaked itself by talking about choice. But the industry has targeted the black community. If people were put on the endangered species list then certainly black children would be there because more are aborted than at any time in history." ... Guardian
The Guardian offers a glimpse of the trailer for an anti-abortion film being shown in Texas.
