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Bastard Nation is happy to announce that it has entered into a partnership with Michigan Open Access , the only authentic no-compromise adoptee-led organization dedicated to adoptee equality in the State of Michigan. It joins BN partners CalOpen [3], Indiana Open Access [4], Missouri Open [5], and Open Adoption Records Quebec [6].
Michigan Open Access advocates for the restoration of human and civil rights of Michigan adult citizens denied by law from having access to personal records pertaining to their historical, genetic and legal identities, because they were adopted as children. It seeks to restore the dignity of adult adoptees by eliminating the government’s imposed management of adult adoptees relationships resulting from sealed records.
Michigan Open Records is led by Marcy Portney and Mona Divitto Brant.
We asked them to tell us, in their own words, a little bit about themselves and their goals for Michigan Open Access.
Marcy Portney: Born 1963, Detroit, Michigan at Florence Crittenton Hospital. Adopted as an infant. Lived in metro Detroit area entire life.
Wonderful adoptive parents, family and life.
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Mona Divitto Brant: I was relinquished through Wayne County Catholic Social Services in 1965. I have spent a lot of money and years searching to find my biological heritage, including the most powerless route of petitioning our courts and being appointed a Confidential Intermediary. I have utilized DNA as well and have finally completed my search. My fight is for each and every one of us adoptees to have total open access to our birth certificates in Michigan as well as to set a precedent for the entire United States, that we will not settle,and No One will be left behind!