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A group sponsoring an anti-abortion advertising campaign that sparked complaints in New York City has unveiled a billboard in Chicago targeting the black community -- and it's already igniting controversy.
The billboard shows a picture of President Barack Obama and reads: "Every 21 minutes, our next possible leader is aborted." It is one of 30 billboards that a Texas-based anti-abortion group called Life Always plans to place in the Chicago area.
Life Always said on its website that the billboard, erected at 58th and State Streets in the predominantly black Grand Crossing neighborhood, is part of a campaign to "encourage reflection on the disproportionate number of abortions among African Americans."
The Chicago Abortion Fund denounced the billboard today.
"The ongoing anti-choice movement to target women of color in cities across the country is both despicable and deplorable," the group said in a statement. "Not only is the ad attempting to shame black women but placing a picture of the President Obama alongside the message is cynical and misleading."
According to the New York Daily News, a billboard by the same group was recently taken down in New York's SoHo neighborhood after protests. It read: "The most dangerous place for African Americans is in the womb."
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