In October 2001, Democrat Senator Walter Campbell issued the Scarlet Letter Law...A law that stated that all Florida women that were wanting to put their child up for adoption would have to publically state their names, age , race, sex, and all their sexual partners in the newpaper...the add would run once a week for four weeks straight...this was was only effective for 18 months..However, is trying to become reeenacted again...
This law would alos apply to all rape victims as well...
Do u believe that it would possibly increase the number of abortions performed?
Does it violate the privacy issue??
Whats next from the Govermant are they going to have everyone that is HIV positive publically state their names too with all their sexual partners...
This could be done in a better way without humiliating the woman d u agree?
2006-11-06 04:22:06 · 6 answers · asked by coopchic 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
That is outrageous. I can't imagine how that would be considered legal. Is this so that the "father" does not come forward after the adoption claiming legal rights to the baby? I can't believe that a woman would be able to list her sexual partners by name in a public forum for all to see. There is so much wrong with this "law" that I cannot believe it passed.
I don't know if this would increase abortions or not. If one is against abortion, I don't believe this stupid law would change her mind. It may increase the number of illegal adoptions though.
I can't believe that anyone proposed a law that would make things even harder on rape victims. I would hope that the there are women's advocates in Florida who would make it very hard for this Senator Campbell to be re-elected.
I cannot even imagine (nor do I want to) what he could possibly come up with next. Perhaps his wife and daughters could list their personal lives in a public forum for all to see. Maybe he would change his mind then.
2006-11-06 04:37:58 · answer #1 · answered by Patti C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I cannot believe that this bill was actually passed. Yes I think this could cause more abortions. But if a law like this can pass, then one like it concerning who has had an abortion could follow as well. I guess every sexually active female had better move from the state of Florida lest everything she does is brought into the open. Besides, not comparing this to prostitution, but the names of prostitutes are published along with the names of the men that are caught soliciting them, and so are pictures of persons wanted on drug charges, robbers, dead beat dads, and sexual predators are put into our newspaper here in Galveston, Texas. This is akin to comparison with a crime that has been committed. Putting your child up for adoption should not be compared to as a committing a crime. But this bill was passed to notifiy all the sex partners of the woman, because of the likelyhood the father might want to claim the child being placed for adoption, and he would have the right to DNA testing, and if proving his child, to the custody of the child.
2006-11-06 04:38:45 · answer #2 · answered by Sparkles 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Last I heard the law was shot down.. it was only in effect for 18 months before Florida killed it...what's the problem.. it's not a law, it won't be a law again.. and it was a ridiculous law..
Where is it that it is trying to get reenacted again... I searched and searched and couldn't find it...
Also you aren't stating the whole reason behind the law.. you are making it sound like any woman that gives up her child has to do this.. it was for the women who did not know who the father of the child is.. it was suppose to protect the father's rights.... which was a stupid idea and it did get stomped out
2006-11-06 04:27:36 · answer #3 · answered by katjha2005 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The regulation was once repealed in May of 2003 through governor Jeb Bush and was once changed through 'father registry'. Here is an editorial I discovered: Florida's the world over notorious "Scarlet Letter" regulation was once eventually repealed on May 31. The invoice, handed into regulation in October 2001, required ladies who desired to position a baby up for adoption however could not uncover the baby's father to run commercials in newspapers describing themselves and their sexual histories. The regulation, penned through State Sen. Walter G. Campbell Jr.--a Democrat--required ladies who'd had intercourse external of marriage to pay out of pocket to location commercials that indexed their title, age, top, weight, hair and eye colour and nationality. They needed to be run in each and every town or county wherein the baby would had been conceived. In addition, the ladies have been obligated to supply descriptions of any guys they might had intercourse with that would have resulted within the being pregnant, and the time, date and place that sexual sex took location. No exceptions have been made for rape or incest survivors or for underage ladies. Politicians who handed the regulation claimed to be worried approximately paternity fits in adoption instances. Gov. Jeb Bush signed a invoice rescinding the state regulation. However, the governor and the legislature simplest moved to erase the regulation from the books after a South Florida rape sufferer went to courtroom to assignment it. That authorized struggle ended in 2 state courts ruling the regulation unconstitutional. But now, Gator state political patriarchs in each residences have voted unanimously to set up a "Scarlet Registry" to exchange the historic regulation. This database, with the intention to be stored through the state Department of Health's Office of Vital Statistics, allows for guys who think they could also be the daddy to record the title, deal with and bodily description of a girl that they had intercourse with, in conjunction with the date and location wherein belief took location. Some 30 states have those "father registries." I consider those father registries are a well proposal. I agree that the repealed invoice was once wack so well factor they modified it. The political celebration titles on this case rather shock me...however I am joyful through Jeb Bush on this case.
2016-09-01 08:06:03 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that this is a terrible idea and could only lead to bad things. Here in MO, there is a senator that demanded all of the names of people that had gotten abortions in recent years.
I think adoption, abortion, sperm donation, anything like that should be a PRIVATE matter, not under public or governmental scrutiny.
2006-11-06 05:01:38 · answer #5 · answered by elfkin, attention whore 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think a lote of people take the coward approach when it comes to an unwanted pregnancy's.I don't think there is a way to get people stop having them.I will just pray that women will come to there senses and use condoms to avoid having to do such a cruel thing.And for those who are rape victims I will pray that they will sober up and stay away from dark allies...
2006-11-06 04:32:15 · answer #6 · answered by FLORIDA 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋