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Posted on Feb 27, 2010
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A Georgia anti-choice group has a “choice” strategy to cater to African-Americans in an effort to diversify its majority-white membership: launch a public outreach campaign that argues that abortion is a decades-old conspiracy to kill off black people. —JCL

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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.

So in 2009, the group took money that it normally used for advertising a pregnancy hot line and 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.

The idea resonated, said Nancy Smith, the executive director.

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By Cherokee Fred Jesus, February 28, 2010 at 10:21 am Link to this comment

only in ga where if you are on probation…...they send you to mandatory christian indoctrination class and force you to attend christian church…..or go back to jail….....very progressive….this group wants to pass laws to put you in jail…..if you do not want to follow the christian teaching they spew like venom

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