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ACLU Files "Choose Life" Lawsuit In a press release, the ACLU-NCLF states that the ACLU of North Carolina and four North Carolina residents are asking the federal district court for the Eastern District of North Carolina “to order the State to cease developing and issuing the ‘Choose Life’ license plate without authorizing a countervailing pro-choice plate.” They go on to ask that even if the Court does not require the General Assembly to issue a pro-abortion plate, it should eliminate the “Choose Life” plate. Katherine Lewis Parker, Legal Director of the ACLU-NCLF, who is representing those bringing the lawsuit, argues in the filing that pro-abortion North Carolinians’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights are violated by allowing only a “Choose Life” plate. The ACLU argues that pro-abortion North Carolinians “have suffered discriminatory treatment as a result of the State’s use of the license plate forum to promote one political viewpoint (anti-choice) in the debate about abortion.” “North Carolinians fought for nearly a decade to just get the General Assembly to take a vote on whether to offer pro-life citizens the opportunity to support life with their license plates,” said Bill Brooks, president of the North Carolina Family Policy Council. “Pro-abortion advocates did their best during floor debate to convince legislators to approve an anti-life message for license plates, and lost that legislative battle. Some felt their effort was not serious as they had never before expressed an interest in having a license plate and that the amendments served only to set the stage for a future lawsuit—just as it has happened.”Related resources: Copyright © 2012. North Carolina Family Policy Council. All rights reserved.
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