The Supreme Court announced yesterday that they won’t hear a case from pro-choice groups trying to block states from having “Choose Life� license plates.
About a dozen states allow drivers to pay extra for the specialty car tags to show the car owner's opposition to abortion.Justices said they would not look at tag laws in Louisiana and Tennessee.
Abortion opponents contend they have a free-speech right to broadcast their own views on their car tags. Proposals to offer car owners an alternative "Choose Choice" plate failed in both state Legislatures.
And I’m guessing it’s not because “Choose Choice� just sounds weird. (Which it clearly does, I have to admit.)
Related: Rachel Joy Larris at TomPaine has a short piece up on whether pro-choicers should lose the ‘choice’.
0 TrackBacks
Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Supreme Court won’t hear license plate case.
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.feministing.com/cgi-bin/movabletype/mt-tb.fcgi/3542
Weekly Feministing Newsletter
Feministing RSS Feed
Sucks.
Oh, well. Can always make up for it with bumper stickers and donations.
A bumper sticker that says "I want a pro-choice license plate," or "my license plate is pro-choice, but the government won't let it say so" would be kind of funny.
But then, I'm working on very little caffeine here.
HA!! I would buy a bumper sticker that says "my license plate is pro-choice, but the government won't let it say so". That's hilarious!
I think it's disturbing and telling that a state would issue license plates with such a controversial and political topic - especially that they'll make plates that say pro-life, but refuse to make plates that say pro-choice.
Disturbing.
Well here in Florida we are working on getting our own pro-choice plate. Obviously with Jeb as our govn'a we aren't going to get it passed. But hopefully once he's out, and we raise enough money, we'll be able to see some equity in vocalized opinions . If you want to submit an entry for the design, please go to our website, or if you just want to donate money you can also do that! ;)