To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Call it 'Womb Lynching'

Hitting the Tuskegee nerve:

For years the largely white staff of Georgia Right to Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion group, tried to tackle the disproportionately high number of black women who undergo abortions. But, staff members said, they found it difficult to make inroads with black audiences. … [They] hired a black woman, Catherine Davis, to be its minority outreach coordinator. Ms. Davis traveled to black churches and colleges around the state, delivering the message that abortion is the primary tool in a decades-old conspiracy to kill off blacks….  Black abortion opponents, who sometimes refer to abortions as “womb lynchings”…

via To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case – NYTimes.com.

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