Legislation June 22, 2022

Congratulations, Louisiana! #12 to acknowledge adoptee equality

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Action Alert May 29, 2022

Limited Action Alert: Louisiana HB 450. Senate Floor Vote This Week. Do Pass!

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Legislation May 28, 2022

HB 450: Louisiana One Step Closer to OBC Restoration

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Legislation May 20, 2022

Bastard Nation Letter to Louisiana Senate Judiciary Committee A. HB450: Do Pass

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Bastard Nation Statement in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter

June 8, 2020

The Bastard Nation Executive Committee expresses our solidarity with Black Lives Matter and with those in the US and around the world protesting police violence and systemic racism. We support all peaceful protest. We support free expression and the right to address and demand redress from the government. We support self-determination, self- ownership, and autonomy. We support human dignity and civil and human rights. Bastard Nation condemns racism, the abrogation of free speech, civil rights, police repression, police brutality, state secrets, and state-based violence.

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Put Yourself in History! Times Change–Except for Bastards:  Bastard Nation’s Sealed Records State-by State Timeline

April 24, 2020

Use our timeline for amusement and education.  Imagine the fun you’ll have telling your state legislators that your records were sealed before Pearl Harbor was bombed; Babe Ruth retired and Jackie Robinson broke the color line; school segregation was illegal; Social Security and the CIA existed; Watergate, Elizabeth was Queen;  Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were assassinated….and before most of those lawmakers were born.

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Limited Action Alert: Louisiana HB 450. Senate Floor Vote This Week. Do Pass!

May 29, 2022

Bastard Nation received this Call to Action today from the Louisiana Coalition for Adoption Rights. If you call under any of the categories below, please contact Louisiana Senators now! Anyone who’s ever lived in Louisiana- anyone who knows anyone in Louisiana should tell them to write in, anyone who knows an adopted person or parent who relinquished in Louisiana etc

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HB 450: Louisiana One Step Closer to OBC Restoration

May 28, 2022

There’s some terrific testimony from our friends Elise Lewis and Kenny Tucker from the Louisiana Coalition for Adoption Rights, who have been at it for years,  the Louisiana Adoption Advisory Board, first mothers, adoptive mothers, and social workers, as well as bill sponsor Rep. Charles Owen and former lawmaker Danny Martiny sponsor of similar legislation in the past.

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Bastard Nation Letter to Louisiana Senate Judiciary Committee A. HB450: Do Pass

May 20, 2022

Adopted people in 11 states have unrestricted access to their OBC. Just a couple of weeks ago Vermont restored OBC rights and your neighbor Alabama restored that right 20 years ago. Not one single negative report about unsealing has been published. Access has been normalized. Adoptees are treated just like the Not Adopted and like the Not Adopted no one denies that they have a right to those records and information. Continue reading

Bastard Nation Action Alert: Louisiana HB 450. Senate Judiciary A. Vote Do Pass!

May 17, 2022

Louisiana adoptee rights activists need our help again. HB 450 passed the Louisiana House 76-21 on March 28, 2022, This is a clean bill. The bill is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee  A on May 24. Below is the action alert Louisianas folks sent out today. At this point, they are asking for calls and emails from everyone –not just those with Louisiana connections to request DO PASS with no restrictive amendments added. If you have a Louisiana connection–Louisiana-born adoptee, resident, family, etc.–please include that information.

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