"THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE FOR AN AFRICAN AMERICAN IS THE WOMB" Friday
He tells correspondent of the newspaper El Mundo
in U.S.
Carlos Fresneda in
interesting information . A
black girl with innocent eyes and pink dress, look for pedestrians and motorists from a billboard
as asking compassion. Above it, the poster
bluntly proclaims: "
The most dangerous place for an African American the uterus." The ad, paid for by the anti-abortion group
of 'Texas Life Always' , whose website is "Thats abortion.com
" has brought the dispute to the streets of New York
. The billboard
be provisionally for three weeks at a strategic crossroads with heavy traffic in Soho
in
Sixth Avenue at the height of the
Watts Street. "
I agree that we have gone too far, but the situation has come too far ," argued the
Rev. Derek McCoy, a member of the board of Life Always
. "
The proportion of abortions among the black community is alarming, and that is what we are denouncing .
Blacks are 12.8% of the population yet accounted for 36% of abortions performed U.S. . In New York
, the proportion grows to almost half.
An embryo 'black' is three times more likely to be 'aborted' an embryo 'white', according to data Life Always . The campaign is especially directed against the work of the clinics
family planning group Planned Parenthood in
slums of large cities, where the highest number of abortions
. "
It's the truth, expressed very clearly " argued For its part
Chris Slattery , leading anti-abortion group
Mother Care FrontLine "
The figures speak for themselves: since 1973 has been more than 13 million abortions among African Americans, compared to 2.2 million deaths from heart disease or 300,000 per accident and violent deaths . "
