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Dear Forum: 4-December-2002 -- Catholic World News Brief
US SUPREME COURT ALLOWS 'CHOOSE LIFE' LICENSE PLATES
WASHINGTON, DC, Dec 4, 02 (LSN.ca/CWNews.com) - The US Supreme Court has brought to a definitive close the pro-abortion legal campaign to block specialty car license plates in Louisiana with the slogan "Choose Life". The plates also have a silhouette of a baby wrapped in a blanket carried in the beak of a brown pelican, the state bird.
The Justices on Monday refused without comment to review an appeal by the plates' opponents of a ruling earlier this year by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals which said the groups did not have standing to sue.
Tracey Green, a South Carolina assistant deputy state attorney general, argued that similar South Carolina plates do not represent one-sided free speech for pro-lifers. She said they represent "government" speech "and communicate the state's oft-expressed preference for child birth over abortion." Louisiana is one of seven states-- including Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and South Carolina-- that authorize such plates, whose popularity is spreading.
The funds from the extra cost of such vanity plates is usually earmarked for adoption and crisis pregnancy services. AmdG
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Dear Amado,
I think Dr. John might be one of their first customers . . .
Alex
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Dear Alex:
Not unless Dr. John moves to Louisiana or, I pray, he starts his own campaign in Virginia.
I have not heard if there is such a movement in my own neck of the woods.
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WHY isn't Georgia one of those states? I mean, our sister states (Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina) allow the plates, why not us? Prob'ly those Atlantan liberals again.  ChristTeen287
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P.S.- Alex, does Canada allow abortions? If so, do they allow partial-birth abortions, stem-cell research, etc.?
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Is Arkansas still a State? 
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Originally posted by monksilouan: Is Arkansas still a State? You pose such profound questions.  Yes, I think you are still stuck to, and with, the rest of us states.  If Arkansas stopped being a state, the country would have a hole in the middle. Thus, the USA would become a great political doughnut? And Arkansas a doughnut hole? :p Now, we may have lots of dough, and we may be nuts, and we may love doughnuts, but I don't think we have come to the point that we want to BE a doughnut. So, overall, we are happy to have Arkansas as a state. Have a Blessed Day!!! John Pilgrim and Odd Duck P.S. Now were are those doughnuts? 
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