To add to Dana‘s post on “Choose Life” license plates, it’s also interesting that in Florida, the money raised can only go toward women who choose to carry their pregnancies to term and give up the child for adoption. And because most women faced with an unplanned pregnancy choose to either have an abortion or to raise the child themselves, much of Florida’s license-plate money is going unused.

That’s better than spending all the money on crisis-pregnancy centers, I suppose. But perhaps it would be more accurate for the Florida plates to say “Choose Adoption.”

–Ann Friedman

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