Following a wildly successful effort earlier this year, a new pro-life billboard campaign in the state of Georgia is exposing the lies and racist underbelly of the abortion industry, while highlighting the devastating effect of abortion and the need for more adoptions.

The attention-grabbing signs across the state — 60 in all, with more coming soon —  feature the campaign’s website, www.toomanyaborted.com, a black child with a tear in his eye, and a sad message across the top: “Black & Unwanted.” The blitz was organized by the Radiance Foundation and cosponsored by Georgia Right to Life, which financed the operation.  

“Adoption is really one of the central themes of this campaign,” Radiance Foundation co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Ryan Bomberger told The New American in a telephone interview. “But it also highlights in particular the disproportionate impact of abortion on the black community.” He said exposing the racism of Planned Parenthood’s founder Margaret Sanger was a crucial goal, because if people knew, they would be outraged. The campaign’s website offers the little-known truth about the origins of Planned Parenthood, its founder, Margaret Sanger, and the eugenics movement more generally.

“American elites (Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Carnegie) championed and funded the racist beliefs of eugenics, a philosophy of breeding a superior race. It called for the prevention of procreation of the ‘unfit’ through social programs of segregation, forced sterilizations, and widespread birth control,” it states. “The Negro Project (spearheaded by Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger) was the effort to severely reduce or eliminate the reproduction of poorer blacks. And the efforts continue today.” Planned Parenthood receives hundreds of millions of tax dollars every year, and in 2008, aborted 65 children for every one adoption referral. Government statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that black women abort three times more often than white women, and Census Bureau data shows over half of Georgia’s abortion clinics are located in predominately black areas.

“You hear all this rhetoric from pro-abortion advocates about how no one wants these black children and this is why they need to be aborted,” Bomberger said, noting that he is black and adopted. “So we respond to the rhetoric that they’re ‘black and unwanted,’ and we break through some of those myths.” He added, “This campaign is our response to the racist and eugenics-laden history of the Birth Control Movement and the continued racialization of adoption.” Bomberger is the son of a mother who was raped yet chose life and gave him “the opportunity to love and be loved” by putting him up for adoption. “Women and children — born and unborn — deserve much better from our society.” He said he hopes more people will consider adoption in the future. 

A previous campaign led by the same organizations erected billboards with the message: “Black children are an endangered species.” The effort gained national and international attention in the media, catapulting the issue into the spotlight, if only briefly. But the groups’ message is not going away any time soon.

“This project is going to continue as long as women are being lied to and the killing of black children is seen as our ‘best’ way to end poverty. Women need to know all their options and expose the lies that Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers have been spreading for years,” noted Catherine Davis, director of Minority Outreach for Georgia Right to Life. "Our children are our heritage, our strength and the abortion community has reduced our legacy to the status of a parasite, something to be eliminated rather than cherished. Black and Unwanted is a campaign that begins the restoration of value to black children in Georgia and the nation."

Information on the racist origins of the eugenics movement and Planned Parenthood in particular have been largely hidden from public view. But a powerful film called Maafa 21, which documents the "black genocide" currently underway, has received significant attention. And with groups like the Radiance Foundation and Georgia Right to Life exposing the issue to millions of Americans, the controversy undoubtedly will be around for a long time to come. 

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Flu-Bird said:

A liberal You know your a liberal when you have a window sticker reading KEEP ABORTION LEGAL and bumper stickers SAVE THE REDWOODS,SAVE THE RAINFORESTS

June 04, 2010

Mario said:

Viva la vida! Shun a bore, abortioned one. Lights out when they failed to wake you from your sleep; while they prayed their soul to keep. Before you could arrive with tenderness, you were pulled from her denied, womb's nest. Small features, in certain places farmed for traces of stem cell creatures. Shun a bore, who, had you entered daylight, might have made your life unpleasant to your core. Still, how wonderful if we could have gotten to meet, some time in another society, where you would be smiling about your victory won, complete. Radiating life, rife with strife; yet life so sweet!

June 04, 2010

Claudia Corrigan D'Arcy said:

... Adoption Aborts the Mother...

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Harry said:

... I watched Maafa 21 for the third time last night. Everyone needs to see it several times. A long hidden, outrageous evil is brought into the light of day. The horrific truth is carefully and systematically documented. There is so much to be considered and absorbed; it takes more than one viewing for it all to sink in. I encourage everyone willing to face the world the way it really is to take the time to watch it. The alternative is to let the genocidal agenda of a relative handful of powerful, racist elitists continue unrestrained.

June 05, 2010

Katie said:

More than just racism... While I totally concur with the Eugenics root of Planned Parenthood, I have to point out the motivations of Big Business in this debacle are more straight forward. Money. Sanger was motivated to fund contraception and abortion because she felt segments of society had no right to live, not dissimilar to Hitler's "Lebensunwertes Leben" (Life unworthy of living). Big Business (Rockefeller, Ford, Kellogg, Carnegie, and many other corporations today), on the other hand, are driven to support PP, contraception and abortion for purely financial reasons. The smaller the family unit, the larger the discretionary funds available to spend on stuff we really don't need. This is also why American business also promotes the gay/lesbian agendas. Big Business is looking to create as many sterile family units as they can, although this seems to be backfiring as even gay/lesbian couples are following the call of their DNA to reproduce or adopt. Look around. People are being pushed for bigger, better cars; bigger, better TVs; bigger, better houses; smaller, better electronic gadgets. And what does this do? It drives people, even with limited families, deeply into debt, and the nation into economic recession. Look further and you can see how this push for fewer children also undoes the reverse pyramid scheme we call Social Security, which was predicated upon each generation being larger than the one before in order to fund the plan ongoing. The last 2 generations have been smaller, and that combined with Congressional misappropriation of SS funds for inappropriate programs, is why it is going belly up. We did this to ourselves by being lured into a consumerist mindset. Things can never replace people. Contraception/abortion can never replace self-control (self controll also doesn't cause cancer). If we taught ourselves to control our physical urges, then we could also train ourselves to stop spending money we don't have on things we don't need.

June 05, 2010

Katie said:

Adoption aborts the mother???? Claudia, Sweetie, that's one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. A mother who loves her child enough to bring it to term suffers nothing even close to death, particularly in these days of open adoption. It is truly a beautiful thing for all involved, the mother, the child and the recipient parents.

June 05, 2010

Aislin said:

... Katie, so how many kids have you given up for adoption? Do a little research before you speak for natural mothers please. Why is adoption the solution? Why is there no mention of supporting and empowering black women to raise their children successfully?

June 05, 2010

rox said:

Katie I am in an open adoption with my first mother and I was pushed into placing against my will. Believe me Katie, adoption is mostly beautiful for adoptive parents. In cases where the child was taken as a result of abuse they might feel very grateful for being taken in by people who don't abuse them (although not all do... and no child should be "grateful" for not being abused. No child should be abused period) Adoption is all about pain. Even the most open adoption is about adoptive parents getting all of the privileged and the poor mom being weeded out of her own childs life, EVEN IF THE CHILD PROTESTS. It's agonizing, and no adoptive parent can tell you what it feels like just because their 5 year old adoptee "loves adoption so much". Talk to the growing vocal community of adult adoptees who have started processing their emotions about it, research the mental health problems that are higher in adoptees, even adopted at birth. Convincing women to place by promoting that adoption "is the most wonderful thing" and it's "beautiful for everyone" is horrible. Losing a child is documented to cause lifelong grief and this can in fact be more pronounced in open adoptions, although the highest levels of trauma are in open adoption that close by adoptive parents (which happens ALL THE TIME, and most often because the child begins to want to have a real parent child relationship with their first mother and the adoptive parents need to keep the parent title that they purchased to themselves) It's a yucky business. And I do mean business. Thousands of thousands of dollars for white babies. Price lists BY RACE. Guess who'se cheaper?

June 05, 2010

Susie said:

@ Katie I am a first mom, and I can tell you that there is NOTHING beautiful about that. I am a mother without my child because society & the adoption agencies made me believe that I was "doing the right thing". Until you have had a child that you were not allowed to parent, you have no right to tell adoptees or first parents that adoption is a beautiful thing.

June 06, 2010