I’ve seen animal-friendly license plates. I’ve seen plates that support sports teams and colleges, both of which reflect a regional identity. I’ve even heard of Operation Iraqi Freedom license plates.
I have yet to see a license plate for woman-hate, though.
Perhaps if I visit Tennessee sometime soon I will.
Tennessee’s anti-abortion “Choose Life” license plates could hit the streets within three months now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal.
You just know South Dakota’s pissed Tennessee got there before them. Of course, nobody brings the hate better than Florida, who queued up first in the state-sponsored anti-woman line in 1999 with this eyesore.
Just like in Florida, this plates allows the state to fundraise for anti-choice groups:
There is a $35 surcharge for specialty plates, and a $70 fee if motorists want personalized tags. Half the proceeds for the “Choose Life” plates are slated for anti-abortion groups, while 40 percent is dedicated to the arts and 10 percent for the state highway fund.
Proposals to offer car owners an abortion rights tag failed in Tennessee.
The anti-choice organization that’ll receive the dough is an offshoot of Tennessee Right to Life, and if Florida’s $70k/month profits for its anti-choice orgs is any indicator, this could mean big bucks.
Lost in all this is that part of the ACLU’s case to the High Court was that states’ refusals to offer specialty plates for reproductive rights — you know, those things that’re still legal and also part of the _actual_ moral and ethical high ground — created unequal opportunity for individual expression. SCOTUS was quoted as saying “LALALALAICANTHEARYOU.”
Based on this evidence, I have to believe a specialty plate celebrating rape is right around the corner. Happy 4th, ladies!
My god, that FL license plate is the most maudlin thing I’ve ever seen. These anti-choice ghouls just don’t get it, do they? All they let themselves think is, “Children are so cute and if you don’t want them you HATE CHILDREN AND WANT TO KILL THEM.” They never, ever stop and think that maybe, just maybe, other people aren’t wicked child-haters so much as just wanting to have the number of children they can actually raise right instead of brainlessly pumping out more and more to under-educate, under-feed and basically deprive them in every way. Even wealthy parents only have so much time and energy for children. Once you get past one or two, you’re starting to deprive them of something.
Instead of “Choose Life”, I’d like to see “Choose Wisely”. And take the money and fund Planned Parenthood with it.
We have these in Ohio, except ours is even uglier
(Choose passenger car, then Choose Life and then click view plate) I don’t seem them on too many cars in my area, but then I do live in one of the more glamourous and cosmoplitan parts of the state.
You’d think, if they were going to create a license plate to be used across several states, that they’d take more than 30 seconds to create the graphic.
The other day I was loading subversive materials into a friend’s car, and I saw his partner’s birthday present to him: a personalized license plate that read,
WE♥MARX.
I wonder if we can get the State of California to distribute license plates that read, “Choose Revolution”? Fair’s fair and all.
I live in Florida. There’s one advantage to the stupid “Choose Life” license plates — it makes it easy to quickly identify the anti-choice assholes.
There was a controversy when the state was in the process of approving that plate. Of course, there was no doubt where Jeb Bush and his minions stood on the issue, so approval was never in doubt. But someone did propose a “Support Choice” version with proceeds to go to Planned Parenthood. However, the state nixed that idea because, in theory, the plates aren’t supposed to be political. Like the “Choose LIfe” one isn’t. As I said, assholes.
If it weren’t for the donations, I’d buy one for my car and one for my wife’s. Mine would say “SO U ADMT” and the other “ITS A CHC.”
Then we’d drive up and down the strips very slowly side by side. So that everyone behind us would have plenty of time to read and understand.
Plllllenty of time.
I like to run over zygotes with my car.
Or I would, if I could see them.
Y’all need to agitate to have pro-death-penalty plates also available, so they can have Choose Life on the front of the car and Choose Death on the back
Or I would, if I could see them.
If you’re in LA, try to aim for the occasional discarded tampon that litter parts of Robert Moses’ cityscape, there’s usually a few attached to them (menstruation being the greatest method of mass murder ever invented by God).
Maryland’s got ‘em too; I’ve seen a couple in Baltimore. The first time I saw one, I just about drove off the road in shock, and then I just about drove the other car off the road in fury.