In the last two weeks the state of Florida has been engaged in a dispute about a specialty license plate it will be offering.  It seems that N.O.W., the National Organization for Women (whom a prominent radio personality has renamed N.A.G’s, the National Association of Gals), is upset about the logo on the tags the state will sell.  They believe that the statement made by the tags is too strongly ANTI-ABORTION, and, therefore, unconstitutional.  The phrase in question?  CHOOSE LIFE (which, by the way, appears written in crayon in a child’s handwriting)!

     The tags are being sponsored by a group who simply want to encourage adoption.  At last report, the governor had decided to go on with the sell of the special license plates.

     Hopefully, there will be an awakening that will help some of these critics see what they are saying and either leave the organization, or drop the lawsuit.  When political agenda and thought bias become so strong that the statement “Choose Life” is considered a threat to your organization, something is terribly wrong.

1) If “Choose Life” is an anti-abortion statement, then the opposite would necessarily be a pro-abortion statement.  We would   welcome the pro-abortionists support of a “Choose Death” license plate, but it is doubtful that they would be willing to back it.

2) Even if the “Choose Life” license tags were blatantly anti-abortion (which claim is ridiculous beyond belief), how could it be unconstitutional in a country founded on basic human freedoms?  But we live in an age when special interest groups seem able to win adjudication against criticism.

3) Who will be harmed if young women in the moral crisis of being pregnant out of wedlock choose adoption over abortion?  Now, to show the bias of the N.O.W. gang, who will be helped if such young women choose to have a doctor kill their babies?  It is tragic indeed that so many in this generation believe it is a bad thing to upon the sanctity of human life. – Via, The Landmark, bulletin of the church of Christ, 3614 S. S.R. 47, Lake City, FL 32025-7607 (December 5, 1999).