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COLUMBIA -- A federal court judge has ruled South Carolina's anti-abortion license plates are unconstitutional. The plates, which include the slogan 'Choose Life,' violate the First Amendment because they give anti-abortion advocates a forum to express their beliefs, while abortion rights supports have no license plate of their own, Senior U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman ruled last week. A spokesman for the attorney general's office said the state plans to appeal the decision to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Bertelsman's decision is at odds with a ruling made by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, saying that Louisiana abortion rights advocates had no standing to sue that state over its anti-abortion plate. The whole issue could end up before the U.S. Supreme Court, especially if Bertelsman's ruling is upheld...
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