TN:PP went to the Supremes to protect Tennesseans from this smiling babe..

 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.

N.J. allows 'Choose Life' license plates after years-long legal battle

 

 

The state has decided to stop its legal fight with a pro-life group over "Choose Life" license plates.

TRENTON — New Jersey's Motor Vehicles Commission has bowed out of a seven-year legal battle and is quietly offering license plates with the slogan "Choose Life."
The plates are available through the Children First Foundation, which first tried to get them approved in 2003.
State officials initially rejected the plates, saying they didn't want to get into a debate over abortion. The state also said it doesn't allow slogans, just the names of the organizations on the plates.

Blue MA: Choose Life plates are now available

From even the bluest of states.....a church secretary worked on this for seven years...a good biblical number.
It is not easy to get this through and includes pre selling 1500 plates as  just one hurdle . The plates will cost $90 for two years. There's an initial $50 registration fee and $40 dollars charged for the special plate. $12 goes to the making of the plate and $28 goes to Choose Life Inc., a Massachusetts based nonprofit who then  distribute the money to crisis pregnancy centers in the states.


Of course the pro abortion groups are not happy ......stating their displeasure with not the message but the money going to crisis pregnancy centers. These are non profit entities who support life affirming options to crisis pregnancy and provide their services free of charge. What's not to like....well they don't  support abortions.


Recently a NY Times article states that abortion clinics are to training their counselors about adoption as a choice in an unplanned pregnancy.  Their referral rate for adoptions  is laughable compared to their abortion rate. Even the article expressed some skepticism about this approach...

Discussing these choices is always delicate, but perhaps even more so in this setting. Social workers in abortion clinics run the risk of sounding as if they’re offering a refutation of the service they are there to provide. As Ms. Page put it: “It’s like you’ve come to this Italian restaurant — do you really want the waiter saying, ‘There’s this great German place down the block, not sure how much you know about it, but you might like it’?”

Telling comment.......don't send paying business away.

 To many who have labored for abortion rights, it might seem at first blush that abortion clinics need adoption specialists the way fish need bicycles — that it represents an infiltration of the opposition. Corinna Lohser, one of the founders of the Adoption Access Network, said that when she worked at an abortion clinic in Cleveland years ago, she and many of her colleagues were wary of adoption, noting that abortion providers are “the ones getting all this harassment from protesters about adoption.”

Now Ms. Lohser, 33, works for Spence-Chapin Adoption Services, a New York adoption agency that supports abortion rights, and has come to regret the lack of information she had been able to provide women in Cleveland. If a client said she didn’t think she could carry a pregnancy to term, then never see the child again, Ms. Lohser’s response was, she recalled, “Yup, check, me either.” She did not realize how much more common open adoptions had become; she knew of no adoption agency that would speak to women with an open mind about abortion.  

Have you ever been in an abortion clinic and heard what a trained counselor says....I have. They push abortion as the only choice to solve the problem. Make it go away quickly........like it never happened. Quick Fix....  I have heard those who left the industry state that they were trained to target those who seemed  especially desperate to get them in right away even if you need to rearrange appointments....get them while they still were in the crisis mode.


It is hard for me to understand an adoption counselor being pro choice but I know some. I understand compartmentalizing your thinking.....have done it myself. But once you get that abortion ends the life of a human being.....and that person is not given his or her choice.....it is hard to justify all the other slogans that take you down the path that ends the life of another human being.


Anyway good for the church secretary and good for MA...the bluest of the blue. Read the full article here.