“Choose Life” Plates Back In The News

J.J. Jackson* | March 11, 2006

ALBANY ? A pro-adoption organization, defended by attorneys for the Alliance Defense Fund, won a temporary victory this week when the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to allow the organization?s civil rights lawsuit brought against state officials to go forward. The lawsuit relates to the organization?s application to have its life-affirming logo on specialty license plates, which had been rejected by the DMV.

?Children First Foundation has the right to a specialty license plate on the same terms as any other organization,? said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeff Shafer. ?The state has no right to engage in viewpoint discrimination. That the DMV would consider our client?s life-affirming speech to be subject to censorship departs from settled constitutional principle.?- Alliance Defense Fund

Sometimes I don’t like the arguments that the pro-life movement uses because they are terrible arguments. Saying the Children First Foundation “has the right to a specialty license plate on the same terms as any other organization” because “The state has no right to engage in viewpoint discrimination” is a terrible precedent to try and set in a court of law.

So does this now mean that NAMBLA should have the “right” have a license plate touting the virtues of men having sex with boys? That’s what they are saying.

No, the correct argument is that “Life” is a constitutionally guaranteed protection under the constitution which can only be stripped as punishment for a crime (see AMENDMENT XIII about when slavery and involuntary servitude is still allowed) and should be promoted by the people and the government.

What can the “pro-choice” (really the pro-murder your child) movement say to that? Nothing but a bunch of hemming and hawwing about the “right” to murder an innocent child.

Let’s think about what we say before we say it next time. Because there are rules to our society. Granted many of them have been discarded over the years by the slow insurrection of left wing government but they are still there.

I?m glad that the pro-life movement has once again won a victory but my fear is their means and their arguments are only going to be able to be used by those that are anti and un-American to further their own causes in the future.

Forgiven and Set Free: A Post-Abortion Bible Study for Women

(Book)

Authors:Linda Cochrane
Manufacturer:Baker Books
Released:November, 1996

The Hand of God : A Journey from Death to Life by the Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind

(Book)

Authors:BernardN. Nathanson
Manufacturer:Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Released:25 October, 2001

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