anti-choice billboard campaigns
The Sound of Silence: Where Is the Anti-Choice Outcry Over North Carolina's Forced Sterilization of Women of Color?
by Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check
January 25, 2012 - 8:21pm (Print)
From the early 1900s up until the 1970’s, over 30 states had formal eugenics programs, that enforced compulsory sterilization of individuals deemed to be “unfit” and “promiscuous.” States sterilized people that were disabled, poor, people of color, and immigrants. North Carolina had a particularly aggressive program. Yet the silence from anti-choice groups on the issue is deafening.
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Dangerous Distortions: Anti-Choice Fascists and Third World Allies
by Sikivu Hutchison, Women's Leadership Project
and Diane Arellano, Women's Leadership Project
June 21, 2011 - 6:12pm (Print)
On a recent Los Angeles talk radio show Louisiana state legislator John LaBruzzo lamented the “massacre” of millions of “baby women” by abortion. In this fascist’s warped mind abortion infringes on the civil rights of fetuses.
The Racist Billboads Are Coming for You
by Steph Herold
June 8, 2011 - 1:21pm (Print)
New billboard targets latinas with anti-abortion messages. And if you don’t speak out about this racist propaganda, they will target you next.
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