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.
[For more of this story, written by Betsy Woodruff, go to http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...-bush-s-florida.html]
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