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Virginia HB301: Bastard National Letter of Support to Senate Rehab and Social Services Committee

Marley Greiner — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:55:40 +0000

There is no state interest in keeping original birth certificates sealed from adult adoptees to whom they pertain nor does the state have a right or duty to mediate and oversee the personal relationships of adults. The debate on the release of OBCs to its adopted citizens is small v large government issue. Small government should win this one.

Adopted people in 16 states have unrestricted access to their OBCs, including all of New England and 3 deep South conservative states (Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia). Not a single negative report about unsealing has been published. OBC access, through the efforts of policy and lawmakers is being normalized. Adoptees are beginning to be treated just like the Not Adopted.

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Georgia OBC Countdown: 35 Days to Go!

Marley Greiner — Tue, 27 May 2025 00:57:40 +0000

Georgia-Born Adoptees! Mark July 1, 2025, on your calendars. That's the day your Original Birth Certificates will be unsealed--no restrictions or conditions.

SB100 passed on April 2, and on May 13, Governor Brian Kemp signed the bill into law.

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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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North Dakota: Bastard Nation’s Letter in Support of SB2284–Clean OBC Access Bill–Senate Judiciary Committee. February 4, 2025

Marley Greiner — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:41:23 +0000

These legal procedures in the current law are archaic, humiliating, time-consuming, infantilizing, in the extreme, and rarely successful. They can also be expensive. The current law promotes the pernicious idea that adopted people are dangerous—so dangerous-- that they cannot be trusted with their own birth certificates and personal information about themselves less they harm others. The Not Adopted, of course, are not mandated to withstand bureaucratic scrutiny to receive their birth certificates.

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Bastard Nation Emergency Action Alert: Keep Adoptee Rights Safe in Oregon. Stop Safe Haven Baby Boxes.

Marley Greiner — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:46:39 +0000

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 is now in danger with the introduction of HB 2901, a bill to legalize the use of Safe Haven Baby Boxes sanitized as "newborn safety devices". A previous bill went nowhere. This bill has legs, and it is moving fast--reportedly a bi-partisan priority.

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Virginia: Bastard Nation Letter of Support to the House HHS Committee for HB 2093. Clean OBC bill

Marley Greiner — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:52:14 +0000

Current Virginia law severely limits adopted people from obtaining their OBCs and other adoption information. Adoptees must petition a court for release of the information for “good cause” or a state agency can release it, again for “good cause.” “Good cause,” however, is not defined by law and is left up to individual interpretation. Both processes are humiliating, time-consuming, infantilizing, and rarely successful. They can also be expensive. The Not Adopted, of course, do not have to stand bureaucratic scrutiny to receive their birth certificates

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Virginia: House of Delegates Passes HB550. On to the Senate!

Marley Greiner — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:04:11 +0000

Yesterday the Virginia House passed HB550 66-32. The bill restores the right of all Virginai-born adopted people to obtain their Original Birth Certificates upon request at the age of 18. There was no floor debate. Oddly, more Republicans supported it than Democrats. The bill now goes to the Senate.

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Minnesota Becomes 15th State to Acknowledge Adoptee Birth Record Equality

Marley Greiner — Fri, 26 May 2023 02:38:56 +0000

Minnesota's long history of sealed records and complicated, confusing, convoluted "rules," including an incomprehensible intermediary system that made it nearly impossible for adoptees to obtain their Original Birth Certificates, ended Wednesday when Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz signed SF2995 an omnibus health bill that contained OBC access provisions. Those provisions came from the earlier stand-alone SF279 stuck in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee for carryover to the next session. The Minnesota Coalition for Adoption Reform (MCAR) and the Adoptee Rights Law Center directed by Minneapolis attorney Gregory Luce, negotiated with legislative leaders to get the provisions added and onto the floor of both Houses which passed the bill on May 22, 2023, the last day of the session. (Senate: 34-32; House 69-64)

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SB64: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, March 29, 2023

Marley Greiner — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:21:32 +0000

SB64 should have passed the House. The bill was a shoo-in. It had no organized opposition. Even traditional opponents agreed to remain neutral. The bill zipped through the Senate and the House Judiciary Committee unanimously. But then something happened. A small group of politicians found the right of their own state's adopted people to obtain their own Original Birth Certificates “troublesome.” and “problematic,” or something worse. I don't know their objections (I can guess) or who they are, though it is likely that House Speaker Jon Burns was among them. Did at least some of them have “a little something” to hide? Whatever was going on, they decided to keep Class Bastard Georgia in line. If SB64 isn't heard and doesn't exist on the agenda then adoptees don't.

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