BASTARD NATION ACTION ALERT: AMEND TEXAS HB 984 * * * FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * * * (Please Distribute Immediately and Widely) Issued May 11 , 2015 URGE THE TEXAS STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO …
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Illinois: Foundling Birth Certificates
A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Lisa Ryan from a local NPR station in Illinois about SB 1670, an amendment to the state’s Safe Haven law. My central gripe about the bill is …
Continue readingAdoptee Civil Rights and “Social Culture” by Shea Grimm
Efforts in various states to unseal OBCs has been the topic of several conversations recently on the Bastard Nation Facebook page. Of particular interest are the campaigns in New York and Texas, where clean bills …
Continue readingIndiana SB 552: The Non-Access Bill by Guest Blogger Lisa Zatonsky
While I was forced to the sidelines, a lot of so-called “access” bills made their way into various state legislatures. The worse is the terribly written Indiana SB 352. Promoted by babystep deformers Hoosiers for …
Continue readingBastard Nation Alert: PA HB 162–Secure and Save Adoptee Rights in PA. Send letter of support now!
Bastard Nation Action Alert: Pennsylvania HB 162 Distribute Freely! Pennsylvania adoptees need your help NOW! HB 162 is being heard Tuesday September 16 in the Senate Committee on Aging and Youth. This is a clean …
Continue readingPA HB 162: BN Exe Chair Marley Greiner’s personal testimony in support
This testimony was submitted originally on March 18, 2014. It is now re-submitted with an addenda regarding abortion which Catholic Charities has injected into the debate. HB 162 TESTIMONY Adoptee access to their own original …
Continue readingAction Alert: New York clean bills amended to redact birthparent names. Let the bills die. Contact NY Leg today!
Bastard Nation Action Alert Emergency Action Needed Today. A909a/S2490B are NOT adoptee right bills Don’t let New York become another Ohio or New Jersey Let them die! New York State’s A909 and S2490, until a …
Continue readingJoin us for Tweet Up Day, June 3
JUNE 3 is Tweet Up Day! Show your opposition to #chiff by retweeting or sharing the truth about the bill USE hashtag do not #SupportCHIFF If you need copies of critical writing, commentaries and analyses …
Continue readingHAPPY MAY DAY! Bastards of the world unite, You have nothing to lose but your shame!
In honor of May Day, here’s some Bastard Nation chants. You can find more here. Our records, our rights! Sealed records are secrets and lies/Adoptee rights are civil right!s No more secr3ets, no more lies/Bastards …
Continue readingNew Jersey. When is OBC access not? What kind of right denies itself?
On April 28, much of AdoptionLand donned party hats, tooted their horns and celebrated the enactment of New Jersey’s long-flogged Adoptee Rights Birthright Bill. The only problem is that Governor Chris Christie, a long-time opponent …
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