If you live in Virginia and/or have your car registered there, Planned Parenthood needs your help. They’re working to get a pro-choice license plate approved by the state legislature, but in order to do so they need 350 pre-paid orders. You know you want one. Hell, I want one and I live in DC without a car.
Funds generated from the sale will go directly to Planned Parenthood clinics across Virginia and will be used to provide health services like annual gynecological exams, sexually transmitted infection testing, and follow-up care for under- or uninsured patients. Money won’t be used for abortion services, so if you have that one aunt who’s kinda on the fence, you can tell her that – this money will fund the sort of services that support women’s health while helping to lessen the need for abortion.
Visit the Planned Parenthood of Virginia website to see more and to order your pro-choice plates: http://www.ppav.org/keyissues/licenseplate.html
Update: The deadline for ordering your license plate has been moved up. All 350 pre-paid applications must be submitted by this Thursday, January 21, or the legislation will not move forward. So don’t delay!
Good. I get really sick of seeing those “Respect Life” plates.
Although I hope no one with these new “Choice” plates gets their tires slashed or anything.
I want one. I sent this to a few people that live in VA; I hope it gets approved in other states soon. I really can’t believe that the “Choose Life” or whatever plates got approved in the first place; it really does make it look like the government is endorsing a specific controversial political position (as opposed to just supporting the environment).
@ Bitter Scribe: That’s the main reason I haven’t ordered one (well, all right, that and a lack of spare funds at the moment). I live right smack in the heart of Pat Robertson Country, and I’ve had obscenities scrawled on my “Feminism is the radical notion that women are people” bumper sticker. I’m under no illusions that the Bible-thumping troglodytes in my area would understand that the funds from the plates don’t pay for abortions – people around here can’t even get it into their heads that PP does so much more besides abortion – and I can’t afford to replace my tires or fix the damage inflicted by some anti-choice asshole. Which says something both frightening and sad about my area, where viciously misogynistic and racist bumper stickers are A-OK, but pro-choice ones are targets.
Can I get one of these in CA?
You may want to confirm with PPVA, but I don’t believe there’s a way to order an out-of-state license plate.
Does anyone know why the deadline got moved up? Maybe I’m getting a little “Conspiracy Theory”-ish here, but it just seems odd that, only days after a conservative governor who’s best pals with Pat Robertson gets inaugurated, the deadline for pro-choice plates gets moved up so far it’ll take a miracle to pull it through.
…it really does make it look like the government is endorsing a specific controversial political position (as opposed to just supporting the environment).
But supporting the environment is a controversial political position. Just ask one of the wingnuts fuming over Avatar.
(Which I saw last weekend, but only because Crazy Heart was sold out. It was what I expected: Visually spectacular but otherwise pretty dumb.)