An anti-abortion group targeting African-American women has begun putting up dozens of billboards around metro Atlanta, declaring black children to be “an endangered species.”

This is a method the pro-lifers call them, have started to use in recent years to call to as a sense of racial solidarity in black women.

The line pro-lifers use to attempt to dissaude women getting abortions is always “we can help you with adoption.” This kills me. There were 126,967 kids in foster homes in 2006, waiting to be adopted.  Washington, D.C., alone has 630 kids waiting to be adopted, 587 of  whom  are black. In 2006  the average wait for a  child in America  to be adopted  was  46.5 months. This does not even include children 16-years-old and older whose parental rights have been terminated  OR  those who have a goal of emancipation. 

It's always amazed me how pro-lifers equate adoption with abortion. A child put up for adoption will spend four years in foster care before they are adopted, and not always in the best conditions. The estimated 518,000 American children currently in foster care are among the most at-risk children in American society.[1] Research shows that adults who were formerly in foster care are more likely than the general population to succumb to poor life outcomes. Former foster children are more likely to become homeless, incarcerated, or dependent on state services.[2]

So the chances of being adopted are slim and if you don't get adopted and are raised in foster care, there is a great chance that you will be incarcerated, homeless or dpeneding on state services.

There should be billboards put up saying, “There is little chance your unborn child will be adopted. Your unborn child will spend four years in foster care and end up emotionally/mentally scarred. Your unborn child will end up homeless.”

Let's leave it up to the mother's to decide that one.