Rachel Larris of RHRealityCheck.org says
Virginia may be on the verge of offering drivers a pro-choice specialty license plate with proceeds from the sale of the plates going to Planned Parenthood. Last month a bill to create the Virginia license plate “Trust Women, Respect Choice” was passed by the House of Delegates with an amendment redirecting the funds from the sale of the plates away from the plate’s sponsor, Planned Parenthood, to a dormant state fund created in 2008 to assist women with unplanned pregnancies.
However in a conference committee on Saturday, the General Assembly restored the funding back to Planned Parenthood.
The Virginian-Pilot reports...
Good for them!
Unlike the adoption industry “crisis pregnancy” centers most anti-choice license-plate programs channel funds to (their real motto? “Choose adoption”), Planned Parenthood offers precisely what the “Trust Women, Trust Choice” motto promises: they’re not only the biggest providers of birth control and termination services for those who choose not to be pregnant, they’re also the biggest provider of prenatal and pregnancy support for those who do.
Virginia’s stealth-teabagger Governor is likely to veto the bill.
