Contact committee members today to request that they do not consider the substitute bill and to reject discriminatory amendments.
Continue readingAction Alert: Texas HB2725. Contact Public Health Committee Members: No to Inequality
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Action Alert: Iowa SF621. Say No to Redactions! Kill the bill. Urgent!
The bill has been transmitted to the House, where it faces skeptical Republican leadership and may not even be brought up for consideration. We need to let the Iowa House of Representatives know that this bill does not work and should not be brought up for debate. We particularly need to get that point across to House Republican leadership.
Continue readingAction Alert: Iowa SF 621. Say No on Redactions! Urgent!–with update. Amendments have been filed.
A once-clean bill in Iowa is going bad, with an agreed upon dirty amendment going to the Senate floor as early as Monday or Tuesday of this week. The bill would add statutory redaction rights for birthparents—i.e., the granting of an unchallenged power to alter an adopted person’s original birth certificate. The bill also has another problem I describe here: who else gets the OBC?
Continue readingTxARC/Bastard Nation Action Alert: Texas HB2725–House Public Health Commttee.Vote Do Pass
HB2725 granting all Texas-born adult adoptees equal and unrestricted access to their original birth certificates will be heard in the House Public Health Committee on Wednesday, April 10th. The hearing will begin at 10:30 am or upon adjournment of the House and will be held in room E2.026.
Continue readingTxARC HB2725 Non-Action Alert:
ep Thompson’s office has not yet received the request so we ask that you wait to call to request a hearing date until that request is received.
Continue readingAdoptee Rights Law Center/Bastard Nation Joint Action Alert: Florida HB597–Vote No
The bill creates a paternalistic forced reunion system in order for an adoptee to access her or his own Original Birth Certificate–or rather in this case, a summary of it. It contends birth record access is about an individual personal desire or curiosity rather than a civil right and political issue by conflating “reunion” with rights. It keeps Florida adoptees and their families hostage to archaic laws and customs, promotes continued shame in adoption, and maintains the iron lock of the state on our birth records and personal autonomy.
Continue readingBastard Nation Action Alert: Do Pass. Connecticut SB972–Joint Judiciary Committee
Please follow the instructions for testimony-submission below. Out-of-state testimony is welcome and you are not required to attend the hearing.
Continue readingBastard Nation Action Alert: West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee. SB300 OBC access. Restricts and discriminantes. Vote No or Amend to cover all, not some
SB300, a restrictive OBC access bill, is currently in the West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee. As of this writing, it is not scheduled for a hearing, but we urge that you write the committee to let members know that the bill, which grants OBC access for some of the state’s adoptees, but not all, is discriminatory and not acceptable.
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