Annie
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Pretty hard to figure out:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050124/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_anti_abortion_plates
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050124/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_anti_abortion_plates
Without comment, justices let stand a lower court ruling that said South Carolina's license plates, which bear the slogan "Choose Life," violate the First Amendment because abortion rights supporters weren't given a similar forum to express their beliefs.
The high court's move means that South Carolina will either have to eliminate the specialty plates or begin offering plates with abortion-rights views. That ruling is at odds, however, with a prior decision by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which essentially allowed the plates because it said abortion rights advocates didn't have standing to bring a lawsuit in the case.
Abortion rights advocates cheered the Supreme Court's move Monday.