In this issue... Front & Center Women Cry Out An Electronic Lifeline: Ministering on the Internet Sydna A. Massé Volunteer Appreciation Barbara Willsher Speaking the Language of Grant Proposals Peggy Hartshorn, Ph.D. Making Abstinence Relevant to Teens Andrew F. Robinson, M.Ed. Computer Moms: A Vocational Training Program Gail Tierney, M.A. Verses to Lean On David O'Leary Choose Life License Plates Gain Momentum At the Rural Center Dinah Monahan Ultrasound and Legal Liabilities Thomas A. Glessner Marketing 101 Jerry Thacker Choose Life License Plates Gain Momentum When Choose Life, Inc. was working to get the Choose Life license plate approved in the Florida legislature, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) listed the Choose Life license plate in its "Top 10 Worst Pieces of Legislation." Our organization has since worn the ACLU's pejorative title as a badge of honor. The concept of a specialty license plate promoting adoption started out as a "good idea" in the mind of Randy Harris, a young county commissioner in Ocala, Florida, in 1996. Since then, the Choose Life license plate statute has weathered three legislative sessions, a Governor's veto, and three lawsuits. In 2003 Randy's good idea raised $788,040, bringing its total revenue generated for the pro-life cause to $2,234,354 since the plate first went on sale in August 2000. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the Choose Life license plate is being praised from sea to shining sea. Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Connecticut, Maryland, and Montana have also issued Choose Life license plates. The South Carolina and Tennessee legislatures have approved it. Twenty other states have either considered or are considering approving the plate. Choose Life license plate committees exist in forty-two states. Nationwide, as of December 2003, the plates had raised $2,651,343. Illinois Choose Life has the signatures of 25,000 drivers who want to purchase this plate, but their legislature refuses to approve it, despite having approved many less popular plates. California Choose Life has tried for three years and presented 10,000 signatures to the state legislature, but to no avail. Recently a federal judge ruled that the state could not approve any new specialty plates until it comes up with a more equitable approval procedure. The Choose Life license plate is steamrolling across America. Nothing will stop it because it is an idea whose time has come! For more information go to www.choose-life.org or call National Publicity Coordinators Russ & Jill Amerling toll free at (877) 454-1203.