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We are happy to announce that long-time adoptee rights activist Mari Steed has been named Vice President of Bastard Nation. Mari has been with us from the beginning and has played an invaluable role in …

Distribute Freely! Pennsylvania HB 162 Rules Committee Action Alert CALLING ALL BASTARDS! YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE FROM PENNSYLVANIA TO HELP! Pennsylvania HB 162 Rules Committee Action Alert Pennsylvania HB 162 has been amended …

Big news out of Washington this afternoon. The Joint Council on International Childrens Services is closing up shop. No details yet. I had heard from an inside source this morning that a BIG announcement regarding …

Bastard Nation Testimony in Support of  1114 and H 2045 Joint Committee on Public Health June 23, 2015 Submitted by Marley E. Greiner, Executive Chair Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization is the largest adoptee …

Dear Senator Flanagan: We write today to request that the Senate Rules Committee not take up and consider S5964. S5964 is an amended version of H2901 (now H2901A), a bill that would have restored the …

Current MA law allows adoptees to access their original birth certificates without condition at age 18 if they were adopted on or before July 17, 1974 or on or after January 1, 2008. Proposed S1144 …

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* * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * * * (Please Distribute Immediately and Widely) Issued June 18, 2015 BASTARD NATION ACTION ALERT: DO NOT TAKE UP AND CONSIDER NEW YORK S5964! In Conjunction with the …

Today New York Adoption Equality requested the public to fax New York Health Committee Chair Richard Gottfried to return A2901A to his committee for a hearing.  The amended bill which is basically a brand new …

Distribute Freely! BASTARD NATION ACTION ALERT!! NEW YORK’S CLEAN BILL AMENDED! Now mandates: redacted birth certificates court order releases first parent searches adoptive parent permission Call Assemblymember David Weprin and State Senator Andrew Lanza TODAY, …