A couple of days late on this one.. Supreme Court declines to hear pro-life license tag case

A federal judge had found that Tennessee’s tag wrongly promoted only one side of the abortion debate, but the decision was overturned by an appeals court.

Justices have refused in the past to deal with similar disputes. Last year, the high court 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.

A weblog on the site dedicated to promoting the Choose Life plates nationwide has various stories.

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