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Month: June 2021
Arizona: Please sign Joint Letter to Arizona lawmakers to reject SB1831/HB2921; guts adoptee rights
Bastard Nation has joined The Adoptee Rights Law Center call for adoptees and allies from across the country to stop the Arizona legislature from destroying the OBC rights of the majority of the state’s adopted class.
The proposed law black-holes all Arizona adoptees born between 1968-2021 from obtaining their original birth certificates without a court order.
Continue readingArizona: Bastard Nation Letter to Senate Rules Committee. Bad bill could be reintroduced. Vote NO!
With extremely short notice, the Arizona Senate, called back to session due to failure to pass a budget bill for the coming FY, scheduled a meeting today in Senate Rules to approve the introduction of …
Continue readingCongratulations Connecticut! Welcome to The Top 10. OBC Rights Restored for All!
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has signed HB 6105, a bill that restores the right of all Connecticut-born adoptees to obtain their original birth certificates upon request without restrictions or conditions. The law goes into effect on July 1, 2021.
Continue readingIowa: Welcome to the Comfort Zone. The Fix was Always In
On May 13, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed HF 855* a bill that restores the right of Iowa-born adoptees to their Original Birth Certificates. Only it doesn’t. The bill contains a redaction provision, cleverly and erroneously called a Contact Preference Form. This corrupt CPF ignores the “preference” part of its title, and acts as a Disclosure Veto that can allow biological parents to order the state to black out their names and other identifying information—possibly including the adoptee’s original name–on the document before it is released to “their” pesky bastard. In other words, the state is mandated to mutilate its own generated and held record to ease the comfort zone of a small subset of biological parents who just aren’t up to owning their parenthood.
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