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Oregon: Joint Bastard Nation/Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Now! Emergency Action Alert: Keep Adoptee Rights Safe in Oregon. Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes Senate Hearing April 17, 2025

Marley Greiner — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 00:57:56 +0000

Over 25 years ago Ballot Measure 58 restored the right of all Oregon-born adopted persons to obtain their OBCs without restrictions or conditions. Thousands of Oregon adoptees and their biological families have benefited from that measure. Since then, Oregon had led the nation by passing further legislation to secure openness and transparency in its adoption system, access for the adopted and their biological parents to adoption files and courts records, and to dispel overall adoption shame and hypocrisy of the past and into the future. Oregon is by far the gold standard for adoptee equal rights in US. The Oregon adopted automatically expect to be treated with dignity and respect.

This record and reputation is endangered by HB2901, a bill to legalize the use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes sanitized as “newborn safety devices.” A previous bill went nowhere, but HB2901 has already passed the House 50-10 and is now in the Senate Early Childhood Behavioral Health Committee.

A hearing is scheduled for Thursday April 17 at 1:00 PM. We need to kill this monster now

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Joint Action Alert: Connecticut and Alaska Baby Abandonment Box Hearings, February 20, 2025

Marley Greiner — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:41:15 +0000

Connecticut and Alaska have Safe Haven Baby Box bill hearings scheduled for February 20, 2025. We need your help now...Safe Haven Baby Boxes are a direct attack on the adoptee rights movement and bastards who speak their own truth. This year, as you will see by the 2025 Legislation page, the country is being blitzkrieged with baby box bills. Currently there are 316 boxes in the US. 55 newborns have been caught and erased from their own histories and birth records. The adoptee voice has been virtually ignored by baby abandonment box promotors who say that adopted people who oppose are "mentally unstable." Let your voice be heard now and show them who is really unstable.

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Bastard Nation Action Alert: Utah HB129 Clean OBC Bill, House Vote on February 4, 2025

Marley Greiner — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:07:09 +0000

Tomorrow is the big day in Utah! (February 4, 2025)

The House floor will vote on HB 129, a bill to restore the right of all Utah-born adoptees to obtain their Original Birth Certificates and other material without restrictions of conditions. Yes, you read that right: UTAH! The bill passed the House Judiciary Commitee 9-1-1.

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Action Alert: GO FUND ME: Help Mari Steed Get the Care She Deserves

Marley Greiner — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:56:14 +0000

"Unfortunately I have bad news regarding Mom. This past week she was diagnosed with Stage-IV Liver cancer and the prognosis is short" ..We are now calling on all our Bastard Nation peeps to share this and the GoFundMe

Please help if you can, Bastards! Show Mari Tatlow Steed and her family some love and support !f you can’t donate then send them all tons of Bastard love and light.

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Idaho HB544: Emergency Action Alert – Hearing on Monday, March 11, 2024

Marley Greiner — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 08:03:16 +0000

Below is the action alert our friends at The Adoptee Rights Law Center sent out over the weekend. Join us in killing this horrible horrible horrible bill that is scheduled to be heard in the Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee on Monday, March 11.The action alert is self-explanatory.

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Bastard Nation Action Alert: West Virginia HB4815 and SB153. DO NOT PASS. Reactionary and Dangerous

Marley Greiner — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:29:34 +0000

HB4815 is a confusing bill that requires adult adoptees to apply UNSUCCESSFULLY to the West Virginia Mutual Consent Registry for their identifying information BEFORE they can apply for their OBC.SB153 is another nonsensical bill that redacts by default, all identifying information on the OBC unless a biological parent specifically authorizes, via a Department of Health consent form, the release of the genuine unredacted document. The bill restricts OBC access and will set a reactionary legal precedent: no other state redacts OBCs by default.

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California AB1302: Emergency Action Alert–April 19, 2023 Deadline

Marley Greiner — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:42:28 +0000

AB 1302 would create a clumsy, cumbersome, and unduly burdensome TRIPLE notification procedure in the hands of the Department of Health. While no fiscal note is yet attached to the bill, I can imagine the cost in millions will fall on adoptees and other voters in California.

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Action Alert: California AB1302: Beware the Trojan Horse!

Marley Greiner — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 02:11:09 +0000

This seemingly innocuous one-page bill is all dressed up as a pretty gift horse to give adults, who were adopted as a child, the right to their original birth certificate through a court petition and order. Look that gift horse in the mouth…

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Emergency Action Alert: West Virginia SB470. Kill the bill. Reactionary & Adopteephobic

Marley Greiner — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 00:21:56 +0000

CONTACT WEST VIRGINIA LAWMAKERS TODAY! The West Virginia legislature is attempting to sneak through SB470, a reactionary and adopteephobic “OBC/adoptee rights bill” that would (1) By default, redact all Original Birth Certificates of identifying information unless a biological parent specifically authorizes the release of the document via submission of consent forms to the Department of Health and (2) Require adoptees to have a high school diploma, GED or have withdrawn “officially” from school to receive the document in any form–redacted or unredacted.

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

Marley Greiner — Sun, 29 May 2022 06:48:14 +0000

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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