{"id":18174,"date":"2010-02-28T17:03:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T17:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/to_court_blacks_foes_of_abortion_make_racial_case\/"},"modified":"2010-02-28T17:03:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T17:03:53","slug":"to_court_blacks_foes_of_abortion_make_racial_case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18174","title":{"rendered":"To Court Blacks, Foes of Abortion Make Racial Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>(Please note the above headline is theirs and not the way I would choose to word it&#8211;KSH)<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>For years the largely white staff of Georgia Right to Life, the state\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The idea resonated, said Nancy Smith, the executive director.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were shocked when we spent less money and had more phone calls\u201d\u009d to the hot line, Ms. Smith said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/27\/us\/27race.html\">Read it all (from the front page of yesterday&#8217;s New York Times)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Please note the above headline is theirs and not the way I would choose to word it&#8211;KSH). For years the largely white staff of Georgia Right to Life, the state\u2019s largest anti-abortion group, tried to tackle the disproportionately high number<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18174\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,168,114,96,120,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}