Shaming Unwed Moms Was the Law in Jeb Bush’s Florida

[Novara]

Shaming Unwed Moms Was the Law in Jeb Bush’s Florida

Remember that time when Governor Jeb Bush allowed a bill to become law that required unwed, pregnant women to publish their sexual history in the newspaper in order to give their babies up for adoption?

No? Well, it happened.

But this was just the beginning of the weird parental follies of Florida in the early 2000s.

In 2001, Bush didn’t veto adoption-overhaul legislation that included a provision making it harder for unwed mothers to put their children up for adoption, as The Huffington Post recently reported.

And by taking a pass, he allowed a particularly offensive provision to become law.

This provision required any woman who wanted to put her child up for adoption, but who didn’t know who the father was, to take out an ad in a local newspaper listing her name and description, as well as the name and description of each possible father and the locations where the baby could have been conceived.

In other words, women had to broadcast her sexual histories to, well, pretty much everybody before attempting to find stable homes for her children.

The law’s sponsor, state Senator Walter Campbell, said the provision was designed to keep “potential biological fathers from coming back and taking children out of adoptive parents’ hands.” And the law didn’t include an exception for women who became pregnant because of rape.

“You cannot just allow someone to say they were raped and use that as an excuse not to provide a name,” said Deborah Marks, who helped draft the law, at the time.


Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/10/shaming-unwed-moms-was-the-law-in-jeb-bush-s-florida.html?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning

Why not just tattoo a red SLUT on her forehead?

[randys1]

1. Hmmm...so there IS a difference between the two parties

[misterhighwasted]

2. That's going to leave a big mark. Especially now, & as organized as women are for 2016.

We need a picture of toast with Jeb's image on it.
He's lost the immigrant vote, and this wipes out a big slice of the women's voting block.

He is toast.