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Washington D.C., Jul 16, 2014 \/ 02:02 am (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Several lawmakers in North Carolina have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a censorship case related to pro-life specialty license plates in the state.<\/p>\n

\tAlliance Defending Freedom filed the appeal on Friday on behalf of Thom Tillis, speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, and Phil Berger, president pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cState governments have a right to advance messages consistent with their public policies,\u201d said ADF Senior Counsel Casey Mattox in a recent statement.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe Supreme Court has already affirmed that right. North Carolinians support protecting life and helping pregnant women in need; the First Amendment does not require the state to bow to demands that it censor the 'Choose Life' message.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe North Carolina General Assembly authorized the specialty license plates featuring the phrase \u201cChoose Life\u201d in 2011. The plates would have been available for an additional $25 fee, $15 of which would support the Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship, which serves pregnant women in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

\tThe state offers more than 100 other special-interest license plates, ranging from the Knights of Columbus to more than a dozen NASCAR options. All specialty plates fund causes that benefit the state and are consistent with its public policies. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\tBefore the state could begin issuing the plates for hundreds of interested citizens, the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit on First Amendment grounds. The ACLU argued that the \u201cChoose Life\u201d plates must be censored because North Carolina did not also issue a specialty place encouraging abortion. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\tThe U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina ruled in favor of the ACLU, barring North Carolina from distributing the \u201cChoose Life\u201d plates. In February, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cThe 4th Circuit's decision is at odds with other circuits that have upheld the rights of states to issue such plates,\u201d said ADF Senior Counsel David Cortman.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAs the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed as recently as 2009, the government \u2018has the right to speak for itself\u2026and to select the views that it wants to express.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\tSpecialty license plates expressing a pro-life message are available in 29 states.<\/p>\n

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