FLORIDA’S NEW ADOPTION LAW DRIVES WOMEN TO ABORTION

WASHINGTON, August 23, 2002 (LSN.ca) – Promiscuous unmarried women are reportedly so embarrassed about divulging personal details under Florida’s adoption law that they would rather abort their unborn babies than publish information that could help locate the father. The story was front-page news even in Canadian papers today.  The law, once more or less supported by conservatives and fathers’ advocacy groups, is now being challenged in an appeals court after a lower court ruled that it does not apply in rape cases. Specifically, the law applies to women who put a love child up for adoption but do not name the father. In order to locate the father, it requires that the women admit to every sexual encounter that could have caused the pregnancy, along with names and descriptions of the men. Some of the information would then be published in the local newspaper where the child may have been conceived—so that a father who wants to contest the adoption can step forward.  The bill was plagued with so many problems that some Christians as well as feminists opposed it and Jeb Bush, Florida’s Republican Governor, refrained from a veto only because he was promised it would be quickly amended—which the legislature has failed to do. The main result so far is that the number of babies being put up for adoption has sharply declined.  National Post front-page coverage no longer online.  Story available at MSNBC.com:  https://www.msnbc.com/news/792195.asp