Illinois Doesn't Have To Offer 'Choose Life' License Plates: Supreme Court

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has refused to hear an anti-abortion's group request to force a state to issue "Choose Life" license plates.

The high court on Monday left in place a federal appeals court ruling that state officials were within their rights in trying to keep viewpoints on abortion off of Illinois license plates. Choose Life Illinois, Inc. sued to force the state to issue the plates.

Comments

[thatcherschild]

08:21 PM on 10/06/2009

When this pro-life nonsense rears its head here in Australia the sensible people reply with "get your rosaries off my ovaries", which sums it all up really!

[onenvrnos]

07:35 AM on 10/07/2009

ha ha...good 1!

[Phenlandia]

04:26 PM on 10/06/2009

They needed the Supreme Court to tell them this? I know these people are dim but I've met dogs that were smart enough to do the contemplat­ion involved here.

[soisay]

02:38 PM on 10/06/2009

The opposite of "Choose Life" (a sham presented as pro adoption but all know is actually anti-abort­ion) is actually "Plan Parenthood­" (light purple with dark purple letter-P). It would be presented as support for funding pre-natal and neo-natal care for the underprivi­leged and voluntary parental authorized sexual education materials (to make every child a wanted child). In my state such plates require first a vote of legislatur­e (ha! will never happen), then a petition to certify a certain number of unit sales (again, liberals are not single-iss­ue k00ks), finally regular annual sales levels. After watching abortion clinics burned down, people sh0t in church while supporters praise the sh00ter, fake pictures of bl00dy fetuses on 20 x 20 foot flatboard trucks, protesters screaming with blowhorns and having rosaries and prayer vigils; it is easy to see how such sheer terr0rism against political speech would prevent many supporters from displaying a "Plan Parenthood­" license plate.

[beartrack]

01:33 PM on 10/06/2009

No state should have any kind of vanity plates at all. No political statements belong on car license plates. That's what bumper stickers are for. That means no mottos, or logs etc. State name, color and expiration stickers only.

[Subterfuge]

11:32 AM on 10/06/2009

Upcoming plates:

Show us the birth certificat­e
Get your government hands off of my socialist license plate
Death to Obama
Where's Oswald?
If the US fails, Obama Fails!
Turn the other cheek.. and shoot it.

[jerryfromcalifornia]

12:01 PM on 10/06/2009

GOP-OUT
jerry belairca

[Subterfuge]

11:20 AM on 10/06/2009

I live in Michigan and as I drove through South Carolina I was appalled to see these anti-abort­ion license plates. I couldn't believe the state was endorsing political statements­.

[Nunnya]

12:33 PM on 10/06/2009

Here in Florida their everywhere­.

[trinity]

08:28 PM on 10/06/2009

Interestin­g enough, Illinois' neighbor Indiana does issue Choose Life plates, we see them now and again in the northwest (close to Chicago) region, but they are more popular downstate I think...

[keepemhonest]

10:48 AM on 10/06/2009

Drooling Rightwinge­rs want to "say" adopt ..

The Drooler's PRETEND all kids are adopted at birth ... WRONG ...

Droolers ignore the fact that orphanages are overcrowde­d AND UNDER FUNDED.

Also, Droolers want to DEFUND all programs that benefits orphaned kids: DEFUND SCHIP, Education, Libraries, Educationa­l Grants to colleges, and many other programs.

[dans5843]

10:42 AM on 10/06/2009

I am so glad I will not see these pro life plates in my home state!

[sheilaofmiami]

10:35 AM on 10/06/2009

I am a pro choicer in Florida. I think "choosing" life is just fine. I also think knowing that keeping a pregnancy that was not planned is a personal choice.

I do not have the Chose Life plate, but I don't think it is wrong to say to someone they should choose life. But in the long run, my uterus, my decision.

[keepemhonest]

10:40 AM on 10/06/2009

Sheila

.... I think Illinois' position was they (the state) wanted to keep politics out of the Department of Motor Vehicle license plates .... which makes COMPLETE SENSE.

[Elisa Lockhart]

10:03 AM on 10/06/2009

I'm glad that Illinois doesn't have to have these plates. When i was there for school I almost forgot about them until I moved back to florida. I just wish that I could have a "Choose Choice" tag, or something similarly pro-choice that isn't necessaril­y shoving abortion down people's throats the way the choose life plates do

[uglygnome]

08:52 AM on 10/06/2009

Thank, christ for the first bit of sanity I've heard in a while. The religious right is thankfully losing its grip along with its mind.

[Terminal1]

08:19 AM on 10/06/2009

Wouldn't a bumper sticker do?

[Terypat]

04:49 AM on 10/06/2009

Nasty bumper stickers aren't enough for these idiots!

[zombywulf]

02:30 AM on 10/06/2009

The hippocrate­s want a plate that says adopt, yet not a damn one of them has.

[powercosmic]

01:50 AM on 10/06/2009

Why should we "Choose Life"

So that innocent little child can be denied access to health care?

So that innocent little child can be indoctrina­ted into a religious faith?

So that innocent little child can be killed in wars for petroleum?

There is no "sanctity of life" where abortion is concerned

But there is a "sanctity of Freedom" were a womans reproducti­ve rights are concerned.

Keep your religious morals in your own mind because there is no god, therefore morality is only what allows your DNA to survive long enough to produce offspring.

Chew on that a while.

[muscleboundH]

02:21 AM on 10/06/2009

EXCELLENT! Well said!!

[wdw505]

08:05 AM on 10/06/2009

then why do you choose a masonic icon

[thundermummy]

11:30 AM on 10/06/2009

Lame.

[powercosmic]

11:50 AM on 10/06/2009

Freemasons accept that we are all FREE to ponder the nature of divinity in any way we choose, including the belief that there is no god.

Freemasonr­y is a fraternal organizati­on.

The US Constituti­on is based Freemason ideals of working together despite our difference­s.