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Inside Texas' 'manipulative' adoption marketing campaign that targets young women and teen girls (www.houstonchronicle.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Since Texas banned virtually all abortions, Texans may have seen a rosy message about adoption pop up on their phone screens or dot the view on their daily commute. It might read something like this:

Adoption helps “empower” women and allows them to be "in control” of their future.

That message or sentiment appears on billboards and digital advertisements that direct people to ModernAdoptionPlans.org** **— the product of a targeted, state-funded marketing campaign aiming to increase adoptions among young women and girls with unplanned pregnancies, according to documents obtained through an open records request. In the documents, organizers explicitly laid out a target audience with "the highest incidence of unplanned pregnancies": low-income, single women that "skew African-American and Hispanic" between the ages of 12 and 34.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can’t read the article since it wants me to disable my adblocker, and that ain’t happening.

But, if the campaign is skewing African American women… then why does the billboard for this article depict a white woman?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Can’t read the article since it wants me to disable my adblocker, and that ain’t happening.

Click on reader view and that message will go away. That’s what I did.