Pro-choice License Plates
Four states currently provide license plates with a pro-choice theme: Hawaii, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Hawaii was the first state to offer the plates (2003). Virginia differs from the other three states: its license plates had to be approved by its Legislature, and fees from sale and registration of the plates will raise money for Planned Parenthood. The Virginia Legislature did not favor adding pro-choice plates, but had little choice after the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Virginia allowing pro-life plates meant the plates constituted a public forum for speech. To offer a plate espousing one viewpoint while not allowing an equally popular opposing viewpoint was therefore ruled unconstitutional.
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