 Mom Says Anti-Abortion Groups Used Girl's Photo in 'Racist' Ads MANHATTAN (CN) - A little girl's mother sued an anti-abortion group, claiming it used her daughter's picture in "a racist, controversial advertising campaign" that is "defamatory, unauthorized, and offensive," posting the 4-year-old girl's photo on a giant billboard by the Holland Tunnel, with the message: "the most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb." "While Life Always and Heroic Media certainly have the right to engage in such offensive speech, they do not have the right to exploit the likeness of an innocent child to do so," she says in the complaint. “Anissa has also suffered from emotional distress resulting from the use of her image in the New York billboard, as well as damage it has caused her career,” the New Jersey mother said in court papers. The target of the suit, Heroic Media, which developed the ad for anti-abortion group Life Always, stood by its work at first, saying that it was designed to “provoke a visceral reaction.” Life Always Pastor Stephen Broden told the press at the time that Anissa was selected for the billboard “because of her innocence.” 
 
 But the Christian group eventually bowed to public pressure and took the ad down. Tricia Fraser, the mother of Anissa, says in the suit that she never agreed to have her daughter’s image associated with “an offensive, defamatory, and racist statement.” She said that she only signed a release allowing her daughter to be photographed for stock "family photos."
– A New Jersey mom is suing after her daughter ended up on an anti-abortion billboard in New York City, reports Adweek. Tricia Frasier called the use of her daughter's image by Life Always and its ad company "defamatory, unauthorized, and offensive," notes Courthouse News Service. The billboard drew controversy with its photo of a black child—then 4-year-old Anissa Frasier—and the accompanying slogan, “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.” Life Always quickly took down the billboard amid loud protests. The group's ad company, Heroic Media, bought the stock photo of Anissa from Getty Images with a standard clause forbidding its use "in connection with a subject that would be unflattering or unduly controversial to a reasonable person." Tricia Fraser says those terms were violated. She maintains her daughter's modeling career could be harmed—plus she had to give a talk about the birds and the bees way ahead of schedule.