Jeb Bush: Let’s Get Rid Of Unwed Whores By Making Fun Of Them In Public

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. That law - what the fuck were they thinking?

But the approach the legislators chose for addressing this problem — requiring women to list every sexual encounter that could have produced their child in newspaper ads, so as to track down biological fathers in advance of the child being given up for adoption — was a disgraceful and humiliating violation of privacy. Here's how the New York Times described it in 2003:

The Scarlet Letter law required women to run advertisements disclosing their names, ages, height, hair and eye color, race and weight as well as the child's name and birthplace and a description of the possible father.

It also required the women to provide details of the dates and places of sexual encounters that might have produced the child. Women were required to run the advertisements once a week for a month in the community where the child may have been conceived.

The adoption law passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities, and its major champion was a Democrat, state Sen. Walter "Skip" Campbell. But there's some question about whether many legislators were even aware the Scarlet Letter provision existed."I have to admit I'm horrified that I voted for this," Democratic state Rep. Lois Frankel told the Gainesville Sun a year later.

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/9/8751955/jeb-bush-scarlet-letter-mothers