Black Thought (Part3)

There has been a major controversy over a billboard in Atlanta Georgia sponsored by an ant-abortion group at “TOOMANYABORTED.COM” that states “Black Children are an Endangered Species”. The billboard was put up to raise awareness in the African American community. Statistics show that African American Women are more likely to get an abortion than a white woman. Stats also show that the pregnancy rate for African American women are comparable to Latino women however, the abortion rate is higher for African American women. Many people attribute this as one of the major causes for Latinos surpassing Blacks in number of minorities in the U.S. I agree with the notion that awareness is needed in African American Communities however, I feel that the billboard is very offensive. I believe that it just adds a negative stigma to the already heavily stereotyped African American community. Instead of ridiculing Black women for aborting their babies, they should invest more resources into pregnancy prevention. Then maybe the pregnancy rate will decrease and hopefully make these abortion clinics obsolete. I personally don’t believe in abortions yet, I am pro-choice. I don’t believe in killing babies but as a man I don’t feel that I have the right to tell a woman what to do with her body.