Just ask Al Sharpton….. (NY Daily News) – A controversial anti-abortion billboard in SoHo equating abortion among black women with genocide is coming down. The Rev. Al Sharpton says Lamar Outdoor advertising has agreed to yank the ad above Sixth Ave. and Watts St., which features a picture of a young black girl below the message, “The most dangerous place for African Americans is in the womb.”
“The billboard was offensive, especially during Black History Month, and I had intended to hold a press conference Friday in front of the billboard to protest the message of racial profiling and against a woman”s right to choose,” Sharpton said Thursday. Life Always, the Texas-based anti-abortion group that sponsored the ad, said it hoped to raise public awarenewss of Planned Parenthood’s “targeting of minority neighborhoods.” (read more)
(Telegraph) The poster [see below] advertises a Texas-based group called Life Always, which campaigns against what it calls a “genocidal plot” against unborn babies. It is on display in the SoHo area of Manhattan. On its website, Life Always states: “Abortions among African-American women are three times that of the rest of the population. Over 25 per cent of the next generation is being wiped out as we speak”. 
Bill de Blasio, the city’s public advocate, described the advertisement as “grossly offensive to women and minorities”. “This billboard simply doesn’t belong in New York City,” said Mr de Blasio.
“Common decency demands it be taken down.” Christine Quinn, the Speaker of New York city council, said: “To refer to a woman’s legal right to an abortion as a ‘genocidal plot’ is not only absurd, but offensive to women and to communities of colour”.
Stephen Broden, a member of Life Always’s board of directors, said the billboard – which has been timed to coincide with Black History Month – would be the start of a nationwide advertising campaign. (story)