http://www.metafilter.com/tags/sexualhistory Posts tagged with 'sexualhistory' 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/19006/ <a href="http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-padopt080702.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines">Women who put babies up for adoption required to publish sexual pasts</a> Web sites <a title="Websites that ask for certain information about kids under 13 have to get parental permission to get the information." href="http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/kidz.htm">can't collect info</a> on minors, but Florida wants all women, including minors, to publish their sexual history in local newspapers before they're allowed to give their child up for adoption. Abortions are <a title="73 percent of Florida counties have no abortion provider, there are only an estimated 114 total abortion providers in the entire state." href="http://www.naral.com/mediaresources/publications/2002/florida.pdf">difficult to get</a> in Florida, almost impossible for some minors because of parental notification and permission requirements, yet wouldn't this law push more women towards abortion rather than towards adoption? tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.19006 Wed, 07 Aug 2002 22:33:19 -0800 abortion adoption brokenlink Florida law privacy sex sexualhistory dejah420