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Choose Life, Inc sues to halt specialty plate distributionMonday, June 28, 2004 By The Leader-Chicago Bureau http://illinoisleader.com/news/newsview.asp?c=17074  CHICAGO -- Frustrated that the Illinois General Assembly has successfully blocked legislation for the past two years authorizing the sale and production of a specialty license plate that would help to fund adoption agencies, a group of adoption advocates filed suit in federal court Monday.  The federal suit #04C-4316, filed by Choose Life Illinois, Inc., attempts to halt the distribution of specialty car license plates in Illinois until the standards for the plates' issuance are "non-discriminatory and content-neutral."  “We played by the rules...

They're refusing to be silenced. A pro-life group has found a new way to express their freedom of spech - after a federal judge silenced the alternative. Remember that ban on specialty license plates? A division of the Knights of Columbus, called the Knights for Life, have found a way to get around it. WAFB's Jennifer Hale has the story. "It's beautiful - it's really beautiful." It is the new scheme pro-life forces have devised to get around a court order blocking them , and everyone else, from having specialty license plates. The Knights of Columbus is now selling "Choose...

Atlanta, GA (LifeNews.com) -- Unlike in several other southern states, the move for Choose Life license plates in Georgia has stalled. As do most other states, Georgia has affinity license plates for just about every political cause or charity. The enormous number of plates has caused the state to examine its entire plate system, which is holding up issuance of a Choose Life plate to support adoption and abortion alternatives. A legislative study committee was created by the Georgia state legislature earlier this year to clean up the plate system. That put 60 new plates on hold, including the...