OFF: Silly laws

[QUEST]

On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, Martyn White wrote:
> Damon wrote:
> >One that comes to my mind is the following:
> >In Idaho, it is illegal to be pregnant out of wedlock.  No, the law says
> >nothing about the *father* of the child.  The law is just one of many that
> >the State enacted for the sake of reducing the number of teen- and other
> >single-parents.  Yes, the State of Idaho does enforce the law - to set an
> >example, of course.  Weird...
>         How can they try to enforce a law like this?  Surely it would
> be turned over on appeal as being unconstitutional?

I don't know, and I guess it didn't get up that far.  (I could venture a
guess that the mother had enough to deal with, what with taking care of
the kid and all that, so she ended up not having the time to commit to
getting the issue all the way up to the Supreme Court.  Or something...)

Damon