Anti-Abortion Billboards Targeting Latinos in Los Angeles Removed Under Pressure

"The most dangerous place for a Latino is in the womb," reads the three signs on billboards space the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles purchased from CBS Outdoor.

The billboards went up last Friday and were supposed to stay up for a month. But they are being taken down Friday after the group said supporters of abortion rights complained, calling the billboards racist.

"Like a similar ad campaign that ran in New York City, pro-abortion activists are desperately trying to cover up Planned Parenthood's targeting of minorities, and will squelch free speech to do so," said Alfonso Aguilar, executive director of the group. "These billboards tell the truth about the racist targeting of the Latino community, and have been up for a week. It's clear these pro-abortion activists will go to any length, including discarding the First Amendment, to protect their abortion business in minority communities."

But Gabriela Valle, the senior director of community education for California Latinas for Reproductive Justice, which led the crusade to take the billboards down, said those claims "are absolutely ridiculous on all levels."

"The fact is, they produced a racist ad that attacked Latino communities," she said. "They cannot on one hand claim racism and answer that with a racist ad."