***(Editor’s Note: Debbie Durrell is a Pro-Life Contributor for “The Thirsty Quill,” and serves as the Executive Director of Lois’ Lodge, an organization dedicated to supporting and educating young women who may have considered abortion. As an alternative, Lois’ Lodge serves these women through a variety of programs. To learn more or contribute, please visit their website at www.loislodge.org)***

***As stated previously, “The Thirsty Quill” makes no apologies in supporting those causes affiliated with the Pro-Life movement. This mission transcends party lines. For links to several Pro-Life organizations, please visit one of the sites listed on the right-hand side of “The Thirsty Quill” home page under “Organizations and Causes.”***

“Why Not, North Carolina?”

By: Debbie Durrell, Pro-Life Columnist

For the past eight years, the North Carolina Legislature has not allowed a “Choose Life” specialty license plate to be brought to the floor of the statehouse for a vote. North Carolina already has over 130 specialty plates in use. We need your help to make the “Choose Life” license plate a reality in our state. Your signature on the “Choose Life North Carolina” petition would show our legislators and elected officials that there is support for the “Choose Life” plate, and that it should be considered for a vote.

Funds from the sale of each license plate would support the work of pregnancy care centers across North Carolina. Currently, there are 80 such ministries that serve well over 46,000 women. These centers offer a variety of services, from pregnancy tests to parenting classes, from providing baby supplies to mentoring pregnant teens, along with ultrasounds and STD testing by medical personnel.

Each plate sold would provide $15.00 toward funding the free services these centers offer. These funds will be distributed by Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship, Inc., a network of the pregnancy care ministries in our state. Visit www.cpcflink.org to learn more about this network.

There are now 24 states with “Choose Life” license plates. North Carolina is the only state in the southeast that prohibits the sale of the “Choose Life” license plate design and motto.

Please sign the “Choose Life North Carolina” petition to show your support for this movement.

Visit: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ncchooselife/ to sign the petition.

Your email address will not be used for any purpose other than for this petition.

To keep updated on this important bill go to: http://www.ncchoose-life.org.

***(Editor’s Note: Debbie Durrell is a Pro-Life Contributor for “The Thirsty Quill,” and serves as the Executive Director of Lois’ Lodge, an organization dedicated to supporting and educating young women who may have considered abortion. As an alternative, Lois’ Lodge serves these women through a variety of programs. To learn more or contribute, please visit their website at www.loislodge.org)***

***As stated previously, “The Thirsty Quill” makes no apologies in supporting those causes affiliated with the Pro-Life movement. This mission transcends party lines. For links to several Pro-Life organizations, please visit one of the sites listed on the right-hand side of “The Thirsty Quill” home page under “Organizations and Causes.”***