Missouri Choose Life License Plates

Missouri Choose Life License Plates

Missouri Choose Life License Plates

Missouri Choose Life License Plates Must be Approved, Judge Rules

Jefferson City, MO (LifeNews.com) -- A federal district court judge has ruled that Missouri officials must let a proposal for Choose Life license plates move forward despite a rejection from a committee of lawmakers. Using a new 2004 law that allows lawmakers to block nonprofit groups seeking specialty license plates, two Missouri state senators halted the plates in February 2006. The rejection was the first time lawmakers prevented a group from pursuing plates after passing a bill that made it so every plate did not need special legislation to be approved. The law allows any member of the Joint Committee on Transportation Oversight or any two state senators or five House members to stop a plate. Democratic Sens. Joan Bray and Rita Heard Days, both St. Louis abortion advocates, objected to the plates. The group behind the plates, which provide funds to pregnancy centers from the sales of them, appealed the decision in a lawsuit filed in June 2006. Senior U.S. District Judge Scott Wright ruled on Wednesday that Choose Life of Missouri Inc. can move forward with the plates. It also declared the law allowing the lawmakers to stop them unconstitutional saying there are no safeguards from the state discriminating against some groups of people, such as pro-life advocates.
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