Note: A similar letter has been sent to the New York Senate. Dear______ As the Chair of Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization, the largest adoptee civil rights organization in North America, I am writing …
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NEW YORK: Bastard Nation Action Alert. Vote No on A2901A-2015!
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 consents Call Assemblymember David Weprin and State Senator Andrew Lanza …
Continue readingAn Ohio Story: Black Boxes by Megan A Collins, guest blogger
This is what happens when adoptee rights advocates settle for less than what they want.It’s the story they don’t want you to know. It’s what we want you to know. Ohio’s compromised OBC access law …
Continue readingBastard Nation Statement on the Defeat of Texas HB 984
On May 26, Texas House Bill 984, submitted by Support Texas Adoptee Rights (S.T.A.R.), failed to be brought to a vote on the Senate floor after passage in the House, thereby killing the bill. …
Continue readingWhy I Still Lobby by Carolyn Evaine Counterman
Texas HB 984 is probably going to pass within the next 24 hours. Some people will be celebrating “open records” while some of us will heave a big sigh and then put our heads back …
Continue readingBastard Nation Cease and Desist Letter – Hard Copy
MICHAEL S. ZOLA ATTORNEY AT LAW PO BOX 2165 KAMUELA, HAWAII 96743 TELEPHONE: (808) 329-1333 EMAIL: MICHAELZOLALAW@GMAIL.COM May 17, 2015 CEASE AND DESIST DEMAND To Whom It May Concern: I represent the adoptee rights organization …
Continue readingWords Have Consequences: A Cease and Desist Letter from Bastard Nation Attorney Michael Zola
Introduction In the last few days, some promoters of Texas HB 984 have jumped the shark in their defense of their bill. While the bill offers no restriction and conditions on actual OBC access, …
Continue readingLetter to the Texas Senate – HB 984: Vote No! from Marley Greiner, Executive Chair, Bastard Nation
Dear Senator: Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization is the largest adoptee civil rights organization in the United States. We support full, unrestricted and unconditional access for all adopted persons to their original birth …
Continue readingURGENT: Bastard Nation Action Alert–Vote No on Texas HB 984
BASTARD NATION ACTION ALERT: DO NOT PASS TEXAS HB 984 * * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * * * (Please Distribute Immediately and Widely) Issued May 14, 2015 URGE THE TEXAS STATE SENATE NO …
Continue readingLetter to Texas Senate State Affairs Committee from Bastard Nation Executive Chair, Marley Greiner
Dear Senator________: Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization is the largest adoptee civil rights organization in the United States. We support full, unrestricted and unconditional access for all adopted persons to their original birth certificates. …
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