Despite being raised by U.S. citizen parents and having no memories of her country of birth, the woman is in active immigration removal proceedings that threaten to deport her to Iran, where the U.S. has not held diplomatic ties since 1980. Her father, a decorated WWII U.S. Air Force veteran, survived a German POW camp and death march before bringing her home to the U.S.
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Jean Uhrich, January 23, 1957 – June 17, 2025. A Memorial and Memoir
As I said, Jean Uhrich was a force of nature. Maddeningly so. She could be opinionated en extremis. There were times when I wanted to scream “just shut up,” but didn’t. And, she could be kind and generous. She loved Bastards and loved the fight. She stood for something. Jean’s work will not go to waste. One of these days California WILL fall. Jean was a warrior. She stood on the shoulders of Bastard Elders and others will stand on her shoulders. Jean will be missed. Is missed.
Continue readingLet’s finish the job! The Adoptee Rights Law Center has compiled a short update and pre-assembled tweets to send to Arizona lawmakers.
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Continue readingBastard Nation Comments on the Uniform Law Commission’s “Unregulated Transfer of Adopted Children Act draft, September 24, 2020
A statute outlawing unregulated child transfer of adoptees is not an over-reaction as some say, to a handful of cases. It is a reasonable and long-time-coming response to a decades-long pattern of child abuse, bad adoption practice, and ultimately child trafficking that has harmed thousands of adopted people both inter-country and domestic.
Continue readingPut Yourself in History! Times Change–Except for Bastards: Bastard Nation’s Sealed Records State-by State Timeline
Use our timeline for amusement and education. Imagine the fun you’ll have telling your state legislators that your records were sealed before Pearl Harbor was bombed; Babe Ruth retired and Jackie Robinson broke the color line; school segregation was illegal; Social Security and the CIA existed; Watergate, Elizabeth was Queen; Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were assassinated….and before most of those lawmakers were born.
Continue readingMeasurable Rights, the historical documentary about Oregon Ballot Measure 58 is now online
The long-lost documentary Measure Rights: is now online. Measurable Rights The fight for open records in Oregon is the story of Helen Hill and Bastard Nation, who used Oregon’s Ballot Measure 58 to open sealed …
Continue readingVideo: A Win for New York Adoptee Rights
Stop Baby Safe Haven Drop Boxes
Fed up with Safe Haven Baby Boxes? Let Boxers know. Join us on Stop Safe Haven Baby Drop Boxes today. Open to anyone in and out of AdoptionLand who finds anonymously abandoning a baby by …
Continue readingBastard Nation Policy Paper on Legalized Baby Abandonment: Baby Drop Boxes
Our new comprehensive statement on Baby Drop Boxes and their negative impact on Class Bastard, adoption, child welfare, and our rights–is now published. Please read it. Baby Boxes are a New Wave of the future and must be stopped. They are coming to your state and you need to be prepared. Check the BN Legislative Page for legislative news on them.
Continue readingVisit: Not Your Abortee Not Your Poster Child on FB
If you are tired of forced birthers exploiting adoptees to push their agenda, please check out #NotYourAbortee #NotYourPosterChild on Facebook The page is run by adoptees to smash abortion abolitionist conflation of abortion and adoption
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