Food for thought

The billboard above is one of a series that have been posted in Atlanta recently which targets Black women who may be considering abortion. Apparently more than a few Black women in Atlanta are upset by the ads, feeling like they are being unfairly singled out by the ads.

My thought is that despite feeling like this campaign was ill-advised it is at least a starting point for a better conversation.

In Georgia, for instance, Black women have abortions at three times the rate that White women do. I have known more than a couple Black woman who have had multiple abortions like Sherri Shepard, the idiot co-host of ABC's The View, who has admitted publicly to having had several abortions. So it seems that there are more than a few Black woman who have used abortion as an after the fact form of birth control. Therefore it seems to me a more effective campaign might have been to educate Black woman on birth control rather than trying to publicly shame them.