Action Alert, News May 24, 2021

Arizona: Bad News and Updated Action Alert. Act Now!

by Marley Greiner

Bad. news out of Arizona today. HB2070 passed Senate Rules 7-0 and is headed to the Senate floor for a vote. It has already passed the House.

You can watch the short “debate” here.

Senator Quezada asked if the bill was Constitutionally sound because of its tiered access/doughnut hole/black hole specification that would keep the OBCs of adoptees born in Arizona between 1968-January 1, 2022 sealed. The Senate Rules Counsel assured him that tiered access is about maintaining an “expectation of privacy” in adoption whether or not there was any “official” expectation, and that OBC access is a matter of “policy” not a Constitutional issue.  Policy? Seriously?  Equal protection is a policy issue, devoid of Constitutional merit?

NOTE TO COUNSEL:  If it’s about policy, why have Arizona lawmakers changed OBC laws 5 times to regulate who can get their OBCs and when, and are now chomping to add a 6th change?

For more information on Arizona go to our Arizona page and the 2021 Legislative page.

Also read:  Not with a bang! Not with a Whimper! HB 2070 Gets Ripped While Activists Go Quiet

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Updated Action Alert

Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization

PO Box 4607

New Windsor, New York 12553-7845

bastardnation3@gmail.com

www.bastards.org      614-795-6819      @bastardsunite

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May 24, 2021

Arizona needs your help today

Please contact the Arizona Senate

DO NOT PASS HB 2070

Read the bill here.

Bastard Nation Arizona State Page

This horrible bill, was pulled from the jaws of death and is on its way to the Senate floor for a final vote.  It has already passed the House. Help us stop passage!

Months ago, the once clean HB 2070 was gutted and corrupted. It no longer addresses the rights and needs of Arizona-born adoptees.  The bill

(1) is prospective-only starting in 2022

(2) specifically bars the vast majority of the state’s adoptees–those adopted between 1968-2021– from obtaining the state-held record of their births that belongs to them.

In practical terms, the law cannot be used until 2040 long after any perceived controversy that might surround passage is dead.

This monstrosity has passed in the House, and now the  Senate Rules and Senate Health and Human Services Committees with the cooperation of so-called “activists” in the state.–Arizona Heritage.  (See Not with a Bang; Not with a Whimper .)

For a full explanation of the issues the bill presents read the letter Bastard Nation sent to the full Senate and House on May 22, 2021

Please contact the Senators below–especially if you are an adoptee born in Arizona or an Arizona resident– and tell them that nothing but full adoptee inclusion, without restrictions, conditions, or timelines, is acceptable. If you have an Arizona connection be sure to mention it. You might also want to contact House members and let them know how you feel about the bill and urge them to object.

Arizona Senators

jmendez@azleg.gov,
jmesnard@azleg.gov,
tnavarrete@azleg.gov,
lotondo@azleg.gov,
tpace@azleg.gov,
jpeshlakai@azleg.gov,
wpetersen@azleg.gov,
mquezada@azleg.gov,
rrios@azleg.gov,
wrogers@azleg.gov,
tshope@azleg.gov,
vsteele@azleg.gov,
ktownsend@azleg.gov,
mugenti-rita@azleg.gov,
Arizona House
randrade@azleg.gov,
adalessandro@azleg.gov,
ahernandez@azleg.gov,
alieberman@azleg.gov,
asalman@azleg.gov,
ashah@azleg.gov,
bbarton@azleg.gov,
bnutt@azleg.gov,
bpingerelli@azleg.gov,
broberts@azleg.gov,
btoma@azleg.gov,
cchavez@azleg.gov,
cfernandez@azleg.gov,
dcook@azleg.gov,
ddegrazia@azleg.gov,
despinoza@azleg.gov,
dhernandez@azleg.gov,
drodriguez@azleg.gov,
fcarroll@azleg.gov,
fpratt@azleg.gov,
ggriffin@azleg.gov,
jake.hoffman@azleg.gov,
jblackwater-nygren@azleg.gov,
jburges@azleg.gov,
jchaplik@azleg.gov,
jfillmore@azleg.gov,
jjermaine@azleg.gov,
jjohn@azleg.gov,
jkavanagh@azleg.gov,
jlongdon@azleg.gov,
josborne@azleg.gov,
jparker@azleg.gov,
jpawlik@azleg.gov,
jschwiebert@azleg.gov,
jweninger@azleg.gov,
jwilmeth@azleg.gov,
kbutler@azleg.gov,
kpayne@azleg.gov,
lbiasiucci@azleg.gov,
lsierra@azleg.gov,
mepstein@azleg.gov,
mfinchem@azleg.gov,
mhernandez@azleg.gov,
mtsosie@azleg.gov,
mudall@azleg.gov,
ppowershannley@azleg.gov,
qnguyen@azleg.gov,
randrade@azleg.gov,
rbolding@azleg.gov,
rbowers@azleg.gov,
rcobb@azleg.gov,
rfriese@azleg.gov,
rmeza@azleg.gov,
rteran@azleg.gov,
sbolick@azleg.gov,
skaiser@azleg.gov,
sstahlhamilton@azleg.gov,
tdunn@azleg.gov,
tgrantham@azleg.gov,
wblackman@azleg.gov,

 

 

 

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