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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA 4-year-old Black girl became the poster child for a pro life anti-abortion group and her mom
Business Insider via Yahoo NewsWhen Tricia Fraser first heard about the overturning of Roe v. Wade, she was taken back to the time in 2011 when her young daughter unknowingly became the poster child of the anti-abortion movement.
The mom of four was blindsided when a photograph of her daughter Anissa was displayed on a billboard in New York City without her knowledge or consent.
Anissa, who was 4 years old when the picture was taken, wore a pink sundress and a white bow in her hair in the advert. The wording above her head said, "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb."
"It was horrific," Fraser, of Passaic Park, New Jersey, told Insider. She added: "She was so sweet and so innocent, and using her image in that light was just terrible."
The billboard was removed. But Fraser said she took legal action against Life Always, the anti-abortion organization that created it.
"I was very sad about it, and I wanted them to take it down," the 48-year-old said. "I wanted to raise hell about it, which I did."
She added: "My outrage was because they used Anissa's picture to depict African Americans in such a negative way."
The mom of four was blindsided when a photograph of her daughter Anissa was displayed on a billboard in New York City without her knowledge or consent.
Anissa, who was 4 years old when the picture was taken, wore a pink sundress and a white bow in her hair in the advert. The wording above her head said, "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb."
"It was horrific," Fraser, of Passaic Park, New Jersey, told Insider. She added: "She was so sweet and so innocent, and using her image in that light was just terrible."
The billboard was removed. But Fraser said she took legal action against Life Always, the anti-abortion organization that created it.
"I was very sad about it, and I wanted them to take it down," the 48-year-old said. "I wanted to raise hell about it, which I did."
She added: "My outrage was because they used Anissa's picture to depict African Americans in such a negative way."
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A 4-year-old Black girl became the poster child for a pro life anti-abortion group and her mom (Original Post)
In It to Win It
Jul 2022
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Bayard
(21,806 posts)1. Jeez!
Why would anyone think that was okay? Oh yeah--the entitlement gang.
thucythucy
(7,986 posts)2. That, and they're convinced they're part of a holy crusade
and so the end justifies the means.
NoRethugFriends
(2,196 posts)3. I suggest never using the term pro-life
That's their bullshit term they came up with to avoid saying anti-abortion.