Choose Life Plates On Sale and ACLU Won't Challenge This One

WAFB Channel 9 Baton Rouge, Louisiana ^ | 8-18-03

[cpforlife.org]

They're refusing to be silenced. A pro-life group has found a new way to express their freedom of spech - after a federal judge silenced the alternative. Remember that ban on specialty license plates? A division of the Knights of Columbus, called the Knights for Life, have found a way to get around it. WAFB's Jennifer Hale has the story.

"It's beautiful - it's really beautiful." It is the new scheme pro-life forces have devised to get around a court order blocking them , and everyone else, from having specialty license plates. The Knights of Columbus is now selling "Choose Life" plates for the fronts of cars. Ed Jeanfreau said, "My goal is to have 20-30-thousand of these plates on automobiles."

Earlier this year, Louisaina began issuing a "Choose Life" plate for the backs of cars that also served as a regular license plate. But the ACLU challenged it in court and a federal judge ended up ruling it and the state's other 176 specialty plates unconstitutional. Jeanfreau said, "It's the best thing to ever happen to us because now we'll all stand up and be counted." Jeanfreu says instead of discouraging them, the judge's ban is firing up anti-abortion forces more than ever. He spent the day delivering plates to places like the Catholic Life Center, that will send ordering information to every member of the church. Julie Orr works at the Catholic Life Center, "I think Baton Rouge is definitely pro-life and people will be glad to put these on their cars."

Interestingly enough, the ACLU didn't challenge this plate. A spokesman says it's a constitutional way to express freedom of speech as long as its on the front of cars - not the back. All proceeds from the $15 dollar plate and the $10 frame will go toward supporting programs offering alternatives to abortion.

If you have a specilaty plate now - including the first version of the "Choose Life" plate or an LSU or Southern plate- you don't have to turn it back in. But you likely won't be able to renew it next year unless state lawmakers re-draft the law about specialty license plates.

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[mdittmar]

Need a secure, online way to order.

Can't use the front plate in WA., but I can use the frames.

Update that website to make it easy for people to order.

[Victoria Delsoul]

"It's the best thing to ever happen to us because now we'll all stand up and be counted." Jeanfreu says instead of discouraging them, the judge's ban is firing up anti-abortion forces more than ever. He spent the day delivering plates to places like the Catholic Life Center, that will send ordering information to every member of the church. Julie Orr works at the Catholic Life Center, "I think Baton Rouge is definitely pro-life and people will be glad to put these on their cars."

Bumpity, bump, bump, bump!

[glock rocks]

bttt!

[Graewoulf]

It is difficult to believe that the ACLDU ("D" for destruction) is passing up an opportunity to destroy another of our Civil Rights.

Have they gone soft in the heart? What would PC America be today without the ACLDU ardently striving daily to destroy our Civil Rights?

[Gerish]

Great news! Why not buy the frame and stick it around the back plate anyway? Even if you got pulled over you could always claim ignorance (sorry, I didn't know)!

[lara]

Thanks for the ping! I'm buying two. I know my brothers, sisters & parents will also want one.

[Coleus]

Congratulations, keep up the good work!

[cpforlife.org]

Hi Gerish,

The frame IS for the the back (Dept. of Motor Vehicle) license plate. It's perfectly legal. And for both front and back plates for states like NJ that mandate both.

[Timesink]

Ten bucks says some RAT in the Louisiana Legislature next year introduces a bill to require state-issues plates on both back AND front of all vehicles, just to spite the pro-lifers.

In any case, what standard did the federal judge use to rule that the entire vanity plate law was unconstitutional? How will lawmakers have to rewrite the law to make it "acceptable" in the eyes of the socialist judge?

[deport]

Great news! Why not buy the frame and stick it around the back plate anyway? Even if you got pulled over you could always claim ignorance (sorry, I didn't know)!

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I think you could do that without any problem.... The original problem was it was a 'Life' License plate which included the LA License number....... You could use any frame I'd guess.... La uses on rear plates so you can put what kind of plate you want on the front since it isn't a state issued plate.

The plates that were banned......

[kitkat]

***Great news! Why not buy the frame and stick it around the back plate anyway? Even if you got pulled over you could always claim ignorance (sorry, I didn't know)!***

I'm misunderstanding something here. Isn't it perfectly legal just to put frames on the front and back? I thought it was just that the state could no longer produce plates with "Choose Life" on them.

By the way, I am ordering two frames.

[kitkat]

BUMP FOR LIFE

[WKB]

BFL

[Brad’s Gramma]

BABY BUMP!!!!!!!!

[bjcintennessee]

The ACLU is currently trying to ban the Choose Life plates in TN and our democrat governor is fighting them (imagine that).

Anyway my letter to the editor was printed in the Chattanooga Times wherein I stated that pro-abortioners should be allowed to have their voice heard on a license plate as well -- theirs would read "Pro-Death".

[footstomper]

"sorry I didn't know" looking totally innocent is what my brother used to call taking the fat dumb and happy approach years ago when he was in the Navy. Worked pretty well when done right.

[East is the Beast]

Chatt: That is a Great idea you have.
The Tenn Gov can satisfy the ACLU request
and offer both Tenn plates - equal rights
Pro-Life
Pro-Death

Why is it murder for a parent to kill
and equal rights for a doctor to kill
Did not Dr. Korvorkian prove that point?

[Recovering_Democrat]

It is the new scheme pro-life forces have devised to get around a court order blocking them...

Interesting how this is deemed a "scheme" by the writer.