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Anti-abortion groups step up attack on Planned Parenthood with Madison billboard

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Pro-Life Wisconsin has teamed up with a national anti-abortion campaign to put up a  billboard  near a Madison Planned Parenthood clinic today. "CHOICE KILLS THOSE WITHOUT ONE," the sign says in giant letters. A photo of an African American baby is in the center of the letter "O," a slash across it. The billboard has been placed near the Planned Parenthood clinic on South Park Street. It is the latest salvo in what has been a stepped-up campaign not just against abortions but against sex education and family planning and birth control programs across the state. It is also an example of the anti-abortion movement's efforts to revive old and widely debunked charges that Planned Parenthood has links to the eugenics movement. “Abortion is not a true choice for the unborn, for women or for men. Abortion providers prey on those who feel they have no choice, and this campaign highlights this daily reality,” says communications director Virginia Zignego in a press rele

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