"Choose Life" license plates?

[Bleacher Creature]

With all the talk on DU about abortion access, I was reminded about something that's been driving me crazy or years. Specifically, I'm seeing a ton of "choose life" license plates in my area.

They are clearly on cars driven by anti-choicers, but doesn't the inclusion of a varient of the word "choice" undermine their entire argument??

[Girard442]

1. "Force the sluts to have the kids"

Wouldn't fit on a license plate.

[leftstreet]

3. LOL thread win - right outta the gate!

[Not Ruth]

2. Possibly Trainspotting fans?

From 20+ years ago!

[OriginalGeek]

4. I've been known to thank a person for supporting choice

when I see that plate on their car.

It totally befuddles them.

[BigmanPigman]

6. Very clever!

[DBoon]

5. Choose death license plates?

Aging goths gotta make a statement

[hunter]

7. My mom had "choose life" license plate frames when I was a teen.

She was also an aggressive supporter of Planned Parenthood, sex education and birth control. Maybe she'd decided that having a baby every year, as celebrated by various churches including hers, wasn't a good idea. But not before she'd had more children than she could handle. (We were largely feral as children, but we also learned some practical stuff like doing our own laundry. Once we could reach the washing machine we were on our own...)

Needless to say my mom didn't get along with most of the people who had those same lurid purple license plate frames. Some neighborhood kids were not allowed to come to our house, their parents fearing they might learn something about sex, or even that my mom would give them condoms or spirit them off to Planned Parenthood as a neighborhood auntie.

My siblings and I knew everything about sex and birth control before we even cared. No surprises. But maybe the most terrifying prospect was my mom's insistence that if we should unexpectedly have a child we couldn't take care of, that we could bring it home. There were already too many people crammed into a three bedroom house.

I don't understand the anti-abortion people at all because they are usually the ones who support bullshit abstinence only sex "education" and deny their kids any opportunity to obtain and properly use birth control.

And yes, there are plenty of good reasons for abortion to be safe and legal. Anyone whose ethical system doesn't include harm reduction can go to hell.

The same people who oppose legal abortions also oppose things like needle-exchanges, methadone clinics, etc. I think in their small lizard minds they think we are interfering with their cruel and capricious deity's ability to punish people they've judged unworthy.

[Dave Starsky]

8. They are all huge Wham! fans and adore George Michael.

Because that's what he wears on his T-shirt in the well known video for "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go".

This has always confused me. Every time I see that slogan on a car, I'm not sure whether the driver is antichoice or whether they just really, really like to party and have fun.