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The image: a black schoolgirl in a sundress. The location: a huge billboard in New York's SoHo district. The advertiser: Texas-based anti-abortion group Life Always. The copy: "The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb." The predictable result: controversy. "It borders on racist, but all good people of conscience should be offended," says Brooklyn council member Leticia James. "It minimizes the emotions that young women have to go through when faced with this predicament."
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