http://www.metafilter.com/tags/adoptions Posts tagged with 'adoptions' at MetaFilter. Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:41:02 -0800 Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:41:02 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/25373/No%2Dmore%2DScarlet%2DLetter <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/04/24/publishing.adoptions.ap/index.html">Is this your fetus? Are you the one I slept with?</a> Remember when we discussed <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/19006">this </a>before? Florida has now been forced by 4 plaintiffs and the <a href="http://www.aclu.org/ReproductiveRights/ReproductiveRights.cfm?ID=12443&c=30">ACLU </a>to repeal the so-called Scarlet Letter law that forces women who are pregnant and giving children up for adoption to take out an ad local papers once a week for 4 weeks, stating her name and her sexual history in the last year, to let men know if they *might* be the father. <a href="http://www.aclu.org/ReproductiveRights/ReproductiveRights.cfm?ID=11126&c=30">Here </a>is the ACLU legal brief. The details about the decision are in the first link. Thank god for the ACLU. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.25373 Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:41:02 -0800 ACLU adoption adoptions brokenlink Florida law privacy sex sexualhistory aacheson http://www.metafilter.com/24011/Twins%2DReunite%2DAfter%2D20%2DYears <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/nyregion/03TWIN.html">Twins Reunite After 20 Years</a> You need free registration to get this story but it is well worth the slight effort. Twins, adopted, born in Mexico, one becomes Catholic and the other Jewish. Both register at same college and meet up. A story that will warm your heart and, at the same time, perhaps tell us a bit about Nature and Nurture. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.24011 Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:29:21 -0800 adoptions long-lost nytimes reuniting twins Postroad