NOTE: Problem with spacing on webpage.) Dear Sen.— I write today as the Executive Chair of Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization. We are the largest adoptee civil rights organization in North America with members …
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UPDATE. Bastard Nation Action Alert: Stop Louisiana HB 1028 from being heard in the Senate
This is a quickie action alert. Please distribute freely! Last week the Louisiana House passed 98-0 HB 1028 a very very very bad and confusing bill. So bad, that in all my years of …
Continue readingWelcome to the Battle: Green Party Adoption Reform
Our friend James Lane has some good news! You may remember that last year James ran for New York City Advocate on the Green Party ticket (and here).. He is also active in the New …
Continue readingPersonal testimony of BN Executive Chair Marley Greiner in support of PA 162
Below is my personal testimony I submitted today in support of Pennsylvania HB 162. The bill has already passed the House and is scheduled for a hearing tomorrow in the Senate Committee on Aging and …
Continue readingPennsylvania: “Creating another generation of victims is not the answer.” A letter to PA Coalition Against Rape from Kristi Lado
This weekend I wrote about “liberal” opposition to Pennsylvania HB 162, a bill that will restore OBC access, without condition, restriction, to adults adopted in Pennsylvania. OBC ‘s were sealed retroactively there only in 1985! …
Continue readingPennsylvania: PA-NOW Joins Catholic Bishops. Opposes OBC Access
Late Thursday night I learned that Pennsylvania HB 162, a clean bill to restore the right of OBC access to Pennsylvania adoptees, may be in trouble. Last October the bill passed the House 197-0 and …
Continue readingSTOP CHIFF: The Children in Families First Act, 2013-2014
Children In Families First (CHIFF) and the Evangelical Adoption Movement by Shea Grimm
Bastard Nation Introduction: Over the next few weeks Bastard Nation will be publishing information and commentary on CHIFF: The Children in Families First , a bill introduced last Congredssional session by Sen. Mary Landrieu(D-LA). The …
Continue readingMinnesota: Attention OBC activists! Help needed!
Any Minnesotans interested in working on records legislation this session, please contact Jim Hamilton a note. He informs us there are three committees to focus on: House Health and Human Services Policy, House Civil Law, …
Continue readingGeorgia: HB 524 Update and Action Alert
Forward Freely! Georgia adoptees need your help today! On Monday, January 27, HB 524 was heard in the Welch Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice. Due to the enormous amount of contact to committee members from …
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