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NEW YORK – An exterior advertising consort has condemned downbound an anti-abortion sign that pictured a black woman along with the tagline, "The most chanceful locate for an African-American is in the womb."

Some residents had said they found the sign offensive, and members of the black accord were especially outraged by it.

A spokesman for Louisiana-based Lamar Advertising, Hal Kilshaw, said that patch the consort respects the right to freedom of expression, the selection to verify downbound the sign weekday night was for "public safety." He said waiters and waitresses at a restaurant in the building where the sign was placed had been harassed.

The Rev. Al Sharpton praised the selection and canceled plans to protest the sign Friday. The civil rights activist said the sign "depicted black women in an dirty way."

The sign was placed in the busy Soho accord of Manhattan by the assemble Life Always as part of a domestic crusade tied to Negroid History Month. The assemble said its communication highlights Planned Parenthood's "targeting of minority neighborhoods."

Planned Parenthood titled the ad a "condescending effort to denounce and shame African-American women."

Life Always said in a evidence that it "strongly disagrees" with Lamar's selection to vanish the billboard. The organization said "the aim of the board is to call tending to the tragedy and the truth that abortion is outpacing life in the black community."

Sharpton said he was open to discussing the person of abortion in the black accord and did not modify it outright. But he titled instead for a "sober analysis" and said he would call a accord meeting to come it publicly.

"The artefact you come that is not by demonizing black women," he said.

In December, the city's health division free statistics display 41 proportionality of pregnancies in the city were aborted in 2009. The evaluate was near to 60 proportionality for blacks.

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Associated Press writer blackamoor McElroy contributed to this report.

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