Heartwarming followup to yesterday’s post on “crisis” pregnancy centers. Guess where proceeds from Florida’s “Choose Life” license plate program wind up.

Choose Life, Inc. is an IRC 501©(3) organization and donations are tax deductible. Contributions and profits from the sale of promotional items are used to help Choose Life, Inc. promote the sale of the real Choose Life License Plate which raises funds to support adoption efforts of Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Maternity Homes and not-for-profit adoption agencies. Please consider supporting us. Everyone is a volunteer; no salaries are paid to anyone.

Source: Choose Life, Inc.

The website’s tagline says it all “Everything you need to know about the Choose Life License Tag.”

Once again there’s no, zero, none interest making it easier for women with unplanned pregnancies to have and raise their own children. Not easier medically. Not easier psychologically. Not easier logistically. Not easier economically. Not easier socially.

Because, after all, to do that you’d have to give up the notion that pregnancy out of wedlock is wrong and that women who become pregnant out of wedlock are bad. You’d have to give up the idea that the “precious gift of life” is a life-ruining “crisis.” And you’d especially have to give up the smug sense of superiority that lets proponents tell women who’ve “relinquished” the newborns they were first persuaded not to abort “You’re the one who spread your legs and got pregnant out of wedlock. You have no right to grieve for this baby.

That “pro-life” and “a baby belongs with his or her parents” zealots can’t comprehend this simple extension of the idea of choice and self-determination shouldn’t be tolerated.

Which, incidentally, is an oppositional approach I happen to think they’re not at all prepared to defend themselves against.

(Via Jezebel’s Anna N.)