The New York Times’s Shaila Dewan, in her February 26 article “To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case,” put her foot in her mouth, metaphorically speaking, and illustrated years of MSM misinformation concerning blacks and abortion.

Her article starts out as a factual report on how “the largely white staff of Georgia Right to Life” – who cares what color they are, and what’s “largely” mean? – has enhanced its efforts to address the “high number of black women who undergo abortions.”

Then, at the 150-words mark, comes the first of her foot insertions.

Across the country, the anti-abortion movement, long viewed as almost exclusively white and Republican, is turning its attention to African-Americans and encouraging black abortion opponents across the country to become more active.

“Long-viewed” as a result of what image projection source?  Who has long promoted that view? (more…)

On January 25 a whopping 62 billboard signs sprang up in African-American neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia, all with the same message: “Black Children are an Endangered Species.”  The two groups sponsoring the billboard campaign, Georgia Right to Life and the Radiance Foundation, intended the signage to be provocative. Black genocide demands attention — but not, apparently, from the MSM.

Nationally blacks comprise only 12.8 percent of the population but account for 36.4 percent of all abortions. Forty-three percent of all black pregnancies end in abortion. Put another way, “In the United States, the abortion rate for black women is almost five times that for white women,” according to the Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s research arm.

Why? If you build it, they will come. According to Guttmacher, 97 percent of all U.S. abortion clinics are located in metropolitan counties, where minorities and the poor are most concentrated. (more…)