A Texas based pro-life group has begun to stir things up in the abortion debate by posting billboards in Chicago featuring baby-pictures of Barack Obama that read: "Every 21 minutes, our next possible leader is aborted".  The point of the ads is to highlight the high rate of abortion in the minority community.

Recent studies have shown that the abortion rate among African-Americans is far, far higher than any other race, which has led many pro-life groups to focus on the minority community.

Needless to say, the pro-abortion crowd is a little upset.

The Chicago Abortion Fund, a pro-choice group, denounced the billboard. "The ongoing anti-choice movement to target women of color in cities across the country is both despicable and deplorable," it 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."

As the saying goes, the truth hurts.

Life Always, the group which put up the billboard, is planning to do another thirty similar billboards in the Chicago area in the near future.  It's most recent (and controversial) billboard featured a headline stating: "The most dangerous place for African Americans is in the womb".

Of course the pro-abortion crowd claims that any new restrictions on abortion would have a disproportionate impact on African-American women....which means they aren't considering the impact on "unborn" African-American women.

This comes at a time when Arizona became the very first state in the union to pass a law against performing any abortions on the basis of the race or sex of the unborn child.

The Arizona bill, signed into law on Tuesday by Governor Jan Brewer, a Republican, makes it a felony for doctors or other medical professionals to perform an abortion in order to help parents choose their offspring on the basis of race or gender. The law does not punish the woman having the abortion.

"Governor Brewer believes society has a responsibility to protect its most vulnerable -- the unborn -- and this legislation is consistent with her strong pro-life track record," a spokesman for Brewer told Reuters. ...

Although we're sure the federal lawsuits wont be far behind, we're glad to see one state finally making a stand, and most likely a test case on this issue.

On a related note, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski decided to take a stand when it comes to fiscal issues, saying that she will fight to maintain Planned Parenthood's access to taxpayer dollars.

“I think there are some that feel very strongly and will continue the effort to defund. I think that is a fight that is not yet resolved,” she told the Anchorage Daily News.

“More fundamentally, without the care Planned Parenthood provides — without access to Pap smears, pelvic exams and breast exams — women will die,” she said in a statement with pro-abortion Democratic Alaska Sen. Mark Begich. ...

Previously, Murkowski talked about legitimate health services Planned Parenthood provides in defending its funding, ignoring its own report showing it now does more than 25 percent of the 1.2 million abortions that are done annually in the United States. ...

She joins Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe among Republican Senators saying that they will continue to support abortion funding.

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