Hey! The ACLU is using "Anti-Choice" in it's Press Releases!!!

[Up2Late]

(I'm not absolutely sure, but I'm fairly sure I started the shift to using "Anti-Choice" instead of "pro-Life" here at DU last year! Check it out!)

ACLU Asks Federal Appeals Court to Delay Tennessee’s Production of Anti-Choice License Plate

(4/7/2006)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: [e-mail]

NASHVILLE - The American Civil Liberties Union today asked a federal appeals court to delay Tennessee’s production of an anti-choice specialty license plate while the organization seeks U.S. Supreme Court review of a ruling upholding the plate as constitutional.

“The ACLU has not given up on free speech in Tennessee,” said Hedy Weinberg, Executive Director of the ACLU of Tennessee. “Tennessee residents who are pro-choice should have just as much right to express their view on a specialty license plate as those residents who are anti-choice.”

The legislature twice rejected an amendment that would have authorized a “Pro-Choice” specialty plate. The law in question makes a “Choose Life” license plate available to motorists for an annual fee of $35 over and above the basic costs of registering a car in the state. Fifty percent of all funds raised, after expenses, will go to a private anti-choice organization called New Life Resources.

Last month, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the ACLU and said that the anti-choice plate did not violate free speech rights. In court papers today, the ACLU announced that it would appeal that decision to the U.S. Supreme Court and asked that the federal appeals court postpone Tennessee’s production of the plate while the appeal is under consideration.

“Tennessee cannot pick and choose who among its residents is allowed to speak freely,” said Julie Sternberg, a Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. “We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will recognize that only allowing an anti-choice plate violates free speech rights and that the appeals court will prevent production of the plate while the case is under review.”

Plaintiffs in the case include the ACLU of Tennessee, Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee, Inc., and three individuals. Lawyers on the case include Sternberg and Carrie Flaxman with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project; Roger Evans of Planned Parenthood Federation of America; and Susan L. Kay, the ACLU of Tennessee Legal Committee Chair.

Today’s case is ACLU of Tennessee v. Bredesen, #03-1046. To read the ACLU’s brief visit:

<http://www.aclu.org/reproductiverights/abortion/24945prs20060407.html>

[Boo Boo]

1. I prefer "pro-coat hanger." /nt

[AtomicKitten]

15. nice - I like it

Paints a real picture of what they are really advocating.

[silverweb]

2. Good.

Let's hope it catches on in the mainstream.

[lvx35]

3. good!

And their absolutely right on their case...Its not about the license plate, its about letting everybody make their voices heard or nobody...its fairness.

[rodeodance]

4. I am glad to see the ACLU on top of this.

.....“Tennessee cannot pick and choose who among its residents is allowed to speak freely,” said Julie Sternberg, a Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. “We are hopeful that the Supreme Court will recognize that only allowing an anti-choice plate violates free speech rights and that the appeals court will prevent production of the plate while the case is under review.”

[0007]

9. I'm enthralled!

Let's get it right for those bigoted bible thumper's.

[WePurrsevere]

5. About time they caught up with many of the rest of us. I & others I know

(some of us were involved w/Planned Parenthood) have used that term at least since the early 80's (possibly longer but that's when I became more active... I was divorced & had 2 small daughters who I wanted "choice" to be around for). Anyway.... it wouldn't surprise me in the least that it might have been DUers increasingly using it that finally got their attention. B-)

I've always hated the labels "Pro-choice and Pro-life". Almost every pro-choice person I know is also very pro-life just not in the same way most anti-choicers are who all too often are very hypocrital about who they are pro-life for.

We need to reframe the issue a bit and this is a good start. I also rather like using the terms Pro-Privacy and anti-privacy since that tends to get to the heart of why we won Roe vs Wade in the first place.

[Up2Late]

13. My Mother worked for Planed Parenthood in the 1970's, and I had to...

...correct her several times, but I think she's using "Anti-Choice" now too.

"Pro-privacy" and "Anti-privacy" is good for a lot of things these days (Patriot Act, Warrantless Wiretapping, etc.), but to counteract and undercut the so-called "pro-life" professors, I think it's best to keep it simple and short.

Anti-Privacy has so many syllables, that it give the Hannaty's and O'Liely's on the RW noise machine too much time to interrupt the point a pro-choice person is trying to make.

But that's just my opinion.

:pals:

[WePurrsevere]

16. True, they don't have enough brain cells to wrap around such a big concept

and we wouldn't want to strain or confuse their pea size narrow minds. Perhaps because of this if we're centering in on just the abortion issue the KISS of "anti-choice" would be best. B-)

OTOH... we could still occasionally use anti-privacy to reflect the broader 'CON attacks on all the "etc, etc, etc". It's good to throw them a curve ball now and then. :D (If nothing else it's fun to watch them sputter eh? :evilgrin: )

Of course that and a quarter will buy you a piece of penny candy now and days. ;) :pals:

[APPLE314]

6. I have used anti-death instead of pro-life for years.

This makes me against capital punishment also. I just believe we can do better as a species.

[kick_them_hard]

7. ANTI CHOICE

That word speaks volumes..the Dems should use that phrase from now on. It sounds so demeaning. Love it!!

[Up2Late]

11. I think I heard House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi using Anit-Choice...

...a few times in the last year. I seem to remember several members of Congress using the term, but I couldn't say who it was. Plus, I really pisses off the RW issue spinners. :evilgrin:

[wolfgirl]

8. Anti-choice is a

much better term. Actually, we need to focus on the root of this which is the right to privacy. By subverting the right to choice/abortion, we are dooming our privacy rights.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. I often, shamelessly correct OPs who use pro-life in their subject line.

You cannot allow anti-choicers to frame the debate.

[PublicWrath]

12. I noticed something interesting a couple weeks ago......

I was doing Anti-bush* searches and related themes, like pro-secular, antiwar, on products at CafePress. (CafePress prints and sells product lines on behalf of individuals who submit designs; individual vendors reap a self-set markup above the base prices CafePress sets for the item to cover its own costs) Thanks to the influence of dirtbags like O'Reilly, I didn't see a single pro-Aclu t-shirt, but literally scores, maybe hundreds of products with the ugliest possible slogans condemning the Aclu. It was chilling.

[Up2Late]

14. Yes, the RW has been bashing the ACLU for 20-30 years or more...

...it's going to take a lot of work to reverse that problem.

[WePurrsevere]

17. The RW bashes ACLU until THEY need them (like flush Rush)...Hypocrits. n/t

[Up2Late]

18. kick n/t

:kick: