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“Choose Life” license plate approved by Department of Transportation

April 27, 2012 By Matt Kelley

Abortion opponents may soon be able to buy specialty license plates in Iowa.

 The state Department of Transportation has approved a plate that will read “Choose Life” below a drawing of two smiling kids’ faces. D.O.T. spokeswoman Dena Gray-Fisher says the group Iowa Right to Life is sponsoring the effort.

“Their application for that plate has been approved,” Gray-Fisher says. “Now they have to gather 500 paid applications before the D.O.T. will take any further action and actually issue the plate.” The group has a deadline of one year to get those 500 applications.

While the agency would not allow license plates that support a political candidate, for example, she says the D.O.T. does not judge viewpoints on issues like this. “It is an organization,” Gray-Fisher says. “They can submit an application. As long as the emblem itself is not in some way a sexual connotation, vulgar, profanity, then the D.O.T. will issue them if they can qualify and gather the 500 applicants.”

It’s part of a national effort by an anti-abortion group, Choose Life America. Iowa is reportedly the 29th state to approve a “Choose Life” plate.


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