"Choose Life" license plates? [View All]

[Danocrat]

You've got to be kidding. Apparently my state of Ohio is now providing them. This little blurb was on The Columbus Dispatch's web site: "Reduced truck tolls on the Ohio Turnpike are in. So are "Choose Life" license plates and an African-American Hall of Fame." I'm not registered so I can't read further but I did find articles about other states.

Poetic Licenses
Are "Choose Life" license plates free speech or state-sponsored infomercials?
By Dahlia Lithwick
Posted Thursday, Feb. 6, 2003, at 3:57 PM PT

This week, Virginia's House of Representatives approved the creation of specialty "Choose Life" license plates. The Iowa state Senate introduced a bill this week that would do the same. The ACLU has threatened to sue if the Virginia measure is signed into law, which will produce the ninth lawsuit over this issue in three years. Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and South Carolina already have "Choose Life" license plate programs, and 13 other states are considering enacting similar legislation. So, it's probably safe to say that a "Choose Life" tidal wave—and its litigation backlash—is poised to hit the nation.
http://slate.msn.com/id/2078247/

I just can't believe this. This is the first I've heard of this. I wonder if the state proceeds actually do go to right to life groups. Anybody know? If so, then I think it only fair that they provide similar ones supporting other issues, like:
"Choose Life - Abolish Capital Punishment" proceeds go to Amnesty International
"Support your gay community - or we will recruit" proceeds go to Stonewall Union
"Protect the Environment - Eat a Republican" proceeds go to Sierra Club.

Whattaya think?