"The outdoor advertising company that put up a controversial billboard sponsored by a group opposing abortion decided to remove it on Thursday because employees in the Mexican restaurant below the sign were harassed by people angered by the billboard's message, the company said," reports the New York Times:
The billboard, located a half-mile from a Planned Parenthood center in SoHo, showed a young black girl in a pink dress and the words "the most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb." . . .
Bill de Blasio, the city's public advocate, on Wednesday called for the billboard's immediate removal. Christine C. Quinn, speaker of the City Council, issued a statement saying: "To refer to a woman's legal right to an abortion as a 'genocidal plot' is not only absurd, but it is offensive to women and to communities of color."
Letitia James, a City Council member who represents parts of Brooklyn, said she was outraged that Life Always members had said they decided to post the billboard to coincide with Black History Month. Ms. James said she had talked to concerned citizens throughout the day and night on Wednesday, and she directed her staff to start an online petition. Ms. James said she asked MoveOn, the liberal activist group, to post the petition. It went online around 10 a.m. on Thursday.
The censored billboard is within easy walking distance of the site of the proposed Ground Zero mosque--any criticism of which, we were told a few months ago, is "un-American" because Muslims have a First Amendment right to freedom of religion. Racial sensitivity trumps freedom of expression, but sensitivity over an attack on America is un-American. Such is the mindset of the contemporary liberal left.
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