Perhaps I am prejudiced but I think this is the best looking Choose Life plate out there. So you pay a little extra for this....see what your donation can do! This plate is celebrating 5 years of being on the road. It was a long hard road to get there ..PP and ACLU fought all the way to the Supreme Court to protect Tennesseans from this smiling babe ....
Tennessee’s Choose Life
Plate Provides Hope, Protects Life
Alone, confused, and scared are
just some of the feelings experienced by a woman who finds out she is pregnant
unexpectedly. Thankfully, throughout Tennessee, life-affirming pregnancy
support centers offer hope, options and resources to women and girls in need,
due in part, to drivers displaying the Choose Life specialty license plate.
Since becoming available at county clerk offices in November 2006, more than
37,500 Choose Life plates have been purchased in Tennessee making it one of the
state’s best-selling specialty tags. Most importantly, almost $600,000 has been
raised by the plates to support life-saving agencies and projects designed to
increase awareness and resources for at-risk women, children and families
facing unexpected or difficult pregnancies.
In practical terms, the Choose Life
plate proceeds represent funds used to positively promote adoption in our
communities and to strengthen programs of privately funded non-profit pregnancy
centers which exist to provide confidential support, counsel and resources at
no cost to women in crisis.
Consider “Tracy,” a single mother
of two who was a victim of domestic abuse. Upon learning that she was pregnant
with her second child, Tracy believed that an abortion was her only
alternative. Instead, through the practical assistance of a local agency
supported by Choose Life plate funds, Tracy has been able to escape her
dangerous home life and gain the needed support and encouragement to care for
herself and both daughters. “I look at my baby and know that she is a
miracle,” Tracy shares readily with anyone who asks about her life and decision
to parent. “It’s not easy but I thank God for directing me to people who cared
about me, my circumstances and my baby,” Tracy says.
For “Abby,” a billboard funded by
Choose Life plate proceeds was the means of finding the help she needed to
continue her pregnancy. “I suppose at the time I was ambivalent,” Abby
explains. “I didn’t really want an abortion but I didn’t know how I could
care for a baby either.” It was during this critical period that Abby left a
fast food restaurant and found herself staring straight into a sign advertising
the services of a life-affirming pregnancy center located just doors
away. “From the minute I walked in the door I found compassion and care,”
says Abby, “The decision was mine but it was easier to make knowing that I
wouldn’t be alone and that help was just a phone call away.”
As Tennessee Right to Life and pro-life
advocates throughout the state celebrate the fifth anniversary of Tennessee’s
Choose Life plate, the political debate and court challenges surrounding its
enactment hold little importance to women such as Tracy and Abby. More
significant to them, and hundreds of other Tennessee women served by plate
proceeds, is that in communities all across Tennessee, help and hope exists to
ensure that everyone has the resources, encouragement and support necessary to
choose life.
Written by: Mrs. LaMarche is an adoptive
mother, a longtime volunteer at Hope Resource Center in Knoxville and a Board
member for Tennessee Right to Life. For more information regarding
Tennessee’s Choose Life plate visit ChooseLifeTN.org or call toll free 1-877
CHOOSE LIFE.
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