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Anti-Abortion Billboard Arouses Pro-Choice Anger
CHICAGO (AP) -- The erecting of an anti-abortion billboard targeting Chicago's black community that features a picture of President Barack Obama has aroused the anger of pro-choice advocates.

The billboard on the city's South Side reads: ``Every 21 minutes, our next possible leader is aborted.''

The Texas group Life Always says the billboard is part of a campaign to ``encourage reflection on the disproportionate number of abortions among African Americans.''

However, the Chicago Abortion Fund is denouncing the billboard as ``despicable and deplorable.'' The group says in a statement placing a picture of Obama alongside the message ``is cynical and misleading.''

The same group placed a billboard in New York's SoHo neighborhood that read: ``The most dangerous place for African Americans is in the womb.'' The ad, which sparked protests, was taken down.

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03 29 11 by Newsroom
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