Title: 6 Myths About Abortion | Time
Headings: 6 Myths About Abortion
6 Myths About Abortion
Ideas
1. The Bible forbids abortion.
2. Women are coerced into having abortions.
3. Abortion is dangerous.
4. There are too many abortions.
5. Abortion is racist.
6. Abortion opponents would never punish women.
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Content: 5. Abortion is racist. In February 2011, a three-story-high billboard popped up in New York City. Featuring an adorable little black girl in a sweet pink dress, it pro- claimed, “The Most Dangerous Place for an African American Is in the Womb.” The previous year, billboards in Atlanta showed a little black boy with the slogan “Black Children Are an Endangered Species.” The brainchild of Life Always, a Texas anti-abortion group, these signs, and similar ones around the country comparing abortion to slavery, aroused so much indignation from black women that they were quickly taken down. But the charge that abortion is racist is commonplace in the pro-life movement. If the womb is the most dangerous place for an African American, that makes black women, the victims of racism, the real racists. Put like that it doesn’t make much sense. The metaphor ignores the subjectivity of black women;