Please drop a line to Utah Senators and ask them to oppose HB 345. .There is no state interest in keeping original birth certificates sealed from adult adoptees to which they pertain. Nor does the state have a right or duty to mediate and oversee the personal relationships of adults. Those who claim a statutory right to parental anonymity through sealed records, as found in HB 345, promote statutory privilege and state favoritism. This is not a bill adoptees want or need. Only unrestricted, unconditional OBC access is acceptable.
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Action Alert. Connecticut SB113. Level the playing field. Submit your testimony today.
On February 21, 2020, Connecticut SB113 will receive a public hearing before the Joint Committee on Planning and Development. The measure is a clean bill that levels the playing field for Connecticut adoptees. It restores …
Continue readingAction Alert from CCAR: Get It Right, Make Maryland Next. Hearings on Feb 20 & 25. How to Submit Testimony
Capitol Coalition for Adoptee Rights Maryland Action Alert Bastard Nation is a proud core parter with CCAR Get It Right: Make Maryland Next posted on February 13, 2020 Distribute Freely! Maryland has …
Continue readingAction Alert URGENT! Prince Edward Island Bill 29. Contains veto and criminalizes contact. Vote No!
In the name of “adoption reform, the Prince Edward Assembly is attempting to sneak a bill through that will continue to abrogate the right of the province’s adoptees to access their Original Birth Certificate, without restriction or conditions. A final vote can take place as early as this coming Tuesday, November 26.
Continue readingt’s been almost four months since passage of S3419, New York’s historic equal rights legislation. Yet one critical step remains: making sure Governor Andrew Cuomo signs S3419 into law. While the bill is not yet on his desk, we have continued to let him know how important this bill is for all of us. That’s where you also come in, likely again.
Even if you have done so already, contact Governor Cuomo once more to request that he sign S3419 into law. The bill will end more than eight decades of secrecy surrounding adoptees’ original birth certificates. It’s important for all of us to contact him. It’s important now whether you have contacted him before or whether have never contacted him at all. Your voice has made a difference in the past and it continues to make a difference today.
Continue readingVideo: We Are You!
Millions of us are adopted. We are your family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and even your legislators. Your birth certificates are yours. Ours are ours. #WeAreYou #AdopteesDemandDemocracy #BringA5494ToTheFloor #GetItRight #MakeItEqual #ThisISPersonal #WeprinMontgomeryBIll
Continue readingWE’VE DONE THE WORK. It’s time to demand democracy. Pass #A5494. Contact Honorable Speaker of the New York State Assembly Carl E. Heastie at 518-455-3791 Let him know that we have a supermajority of the Assembly as co-sponsors and *respectfully* say that A5494 deserves a vote now. It’s time that democracy works for everyone.
Continue readingWe have the votes for passage of A5494/S3419; the #WeprinMontgomeryBill. Equality should be an easy ask.
Continue readingNew York A5494: Speaker Heastie: Let’s Move A5494 Forward
Bastard Nation is a proud member of the New York Adoptee Rights Coalition Action Alert for the Week of May 27 Assembly Bill A5494 passed out of the Health Committee on April 30 and …
Continue readingAction Alert New York Senate: Vote Do Pass S3419. No restrictions
We made history last week. The New York Senate Health Committee voted S3419 out of committee with a recommendation for Senate passage. This was the first time an adoptee rights bill was even considered in committee in the Senate. Our leaders and representatives have been walking the halls lobbying and speaking with your staff for months. We need YOUR help now to get us across the finish line.
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