<html> isn't this just swell.   nothing like an article about fascism to make one's day. R <blockquote type=cite cite>NY Times August 23, 2002 Shaming Young Mothers By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Do you want to know about the sex life of Sandra, a 33-year-old brunette in Tampa? Just read the Florida newspapers. Sandra is being forced by Florida state law to buy advertisements that give her full name (which I'm not repeating) and physical description: 5 feet 2 inches, 142 pounds, brown eyes. Then, as the law requires, she has to list and describe the five men she had sex with late last summer: Bill, Tommy, Allen, Eric and Joshua. This new state law requires women — even 14- and 15-year-old girls, even rape victims — to disclose the name and address of the father of a baby offered for adoption, or else to publish these ads for four weeks. Perhaps not since a tribal council in Pakistan ordered a woman to be gang-raped in June has a government treated women with such contempt. The new Florida law was meant to reduce the risk of a father's emerging years after an adoption and seeking custody. So the law stipulates that the mother must publish her name and description, along with the names and descriptions of men whom she cannot locate but with whom she had sex around the time of conception. "It's extremely humiliating," said Melissa Colleran, a pregnant 18-year-old New Yorker now living in Florida and planning to give her baby up for adoption. Ms. Colleran doesn't know where the father is but is pretty sure he won't be happy at seeing his name in the newspaper.</blockquote> if you can stand reading more about this crime against women and nature, here's the site: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/23/opinion/23KRIS.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/23/opinion/23KRIS.html</a> </html>