I wonder if you can comply with court rulings by mocking them. Seems to be a novel solution.
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South Carolina lawmakers are proposing several alternatives to the state's "Choose Life" license plates including "Choose Death," "Choose Abortion" and simply "Pro Choice." The proposals were introduced after the U.S. Supreme Court this week refused to hear South Carolina's appeal of a ruling that found the state's "Choose Life" plates unconstitutional.
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals had earlier ruled "Choose Life" plates violated the First Amendment because abortion rights supporters were not offered a similar plate. Now state lawmakers are proposing alternatives. State Senator David Thomas, a Republican from Greenville, introduced a bill creating a "Pro Choice" version of the license plate.
"It's fairly simple," he said. "We'll just give the pro-choice side a license plate in the same bill. Hopefully this will allow us to get around the problem."
But state Representative John Graham Altman, a Republican from Charleston, has proposed motorists choose between "Choose Life" and "Choose Abortion." "This should comply with that crazy court decision," he said.
And state Senator Mike Fair, a Republican from Greenville, introduced a bill that would make the alternate plate "Choose Death." He proposes proceeds from the special "Choose Life" tags should go to a crisis pregnancy center while those from "Choose Death" tags go to the Department of Mental Health for post-abortion trauma treatment.
"This is meant as a message to address this sad state of affairs," Fair said.
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