Posted 8:49 AM by Scoobie Davis

Someone Suck Dr. Laura into a Sink
On both her radio show and web site, Dr. Laura is encouraging her listeners, the Laurettes, to contact members of the California Assembly to pass a bill allowing California drivers the option of having the words “Choose Life” on their license plates. When Schlesinger speaks of “life,” she isn’t referring to a universal reverence for life—what some refer to as ahimsa. Rather, “Choose Life” is a code phrase for a specific political agenda: the move to repeal abortion laws. It’s apparently not enough that this alpha-male-wannabe hectors female callers who terminated a pregnancy with kind words like “you sucked your baby into a sink.” She wants the state of California to sponsor a political agenda opposed by the overwhelming majority of Californians. Fair enough. I’ll support “Choose Life” license plates when Dr. Laura comes out in favor of “Abolish Kosher Meat” license plates to protest the inhumane treatment of ritually slaughtered animals.