This horrible bill, at the last moment, has been pulled from the jaws of death and is scheduled to be heard before the Senate Rules Committee on Monday, May 24, 2021. It will most likely pass and be sent to the Senate Floor. It has already passed the House. Help us stop passage!
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Action Alert: Rally for Adoptee Equality, Austin, Texas, May 21, Noon
Rally for Adoptee Equality Join Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition as well as representatives of Support Texas Adoptee Rights and the American Adoption Congress for a Rally for Adoptee Equality, Friday, May 21, 2021, at 12:00pm. We are …
Continue readingACTION ALERT: Texas HB1386/SB1877! URGENT: Contact Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick
The 87th Texas legislative session ends soon and HB1386/SB1877 has not yet been scheduled for hearing in the Jurisprudence Committee. It is urgent that we all call Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and request that he bring the bill out of committee and to the Senate floor for a vote.
Office of Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
Phone Number: (512) 463-0001
Bastard Nation Action Alert: Massachusetts H2294/S1440 – Contact Joint Committee on Public Health, Vote Do Pass
We urge you to:
(1) Submit or present live testimony, email letters of support or call members of the committee and urge them to vote Do Pass and move the measure to a floor vote.
(2) Ask friends and family in Massachusetts to contact the committee. The more legislators hear from constituents, the greater the chance of success.
Below is the Action Alert distributed by Access Massachusetts with details on the bill and testimony information.
Continue readingDallas Morning News Editorial Board Endorses HB1386/SB1877, April 30, 2021
In recent years, lawmakers in several states have made birth certificates more accessible. Texas should do the same this session.
Continue readingHow to Box Your Inconvenient Baby: It only takes 20 seconds
I’ve been following the Safe Haven Baby Box campaign for several years, and this video totally creeps me out.
This is why I stay in the War for Bastard Justice.
Continue readingMaryland: SB 331 Defeat: Adoptee Civil Rights is “A Bad Idea”
Once it hit the Senate floor, however, adoption imperialist warlords and ladies pushed their panic buttons. They were so aggrieved at us lifting our collective leg on them that they attempted to erase us from our own narratives and records (and thus their own minds) by hacking away with that old rusty saw of “birthmother privacy” and (gasp!) “broken government promises.” As if the government has never broken a real promise or spouted a fake one!
This, Fellow Bastards, is some of the worst dehumanizing and outlandish misinformation about adoption and Class Bastard that I’ve heard in years. Did Bill Pierce, the late founding president of the National Council for Adoption, rise from the dead and channel himself through Senator Michael Hough (R ) and his gang of merry bigoted bipartisan busybodies?
Continue readingAction Alert: HR 1593 Adoptee Citizenship Act 2021. Tweet today!
On March 4, 2021, Washington Representative Adam Smith and Utah Representative John Curtis introduced the bipartisan HR1593 Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2021 to provide U.S. citizenship to international adoptees who were brought to the U.S. as children but never granted citizenship. The following members of Congress have co-sponsored this legislation in the past. Let’s get them on board again!
Continue readingTexas HB 1386: Bastard Nation Oral Testimony in Support–Clean OBC Bill
Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization PO Box 4607 New Windsor, New York 12553-7845 614-795-6819 bastards.org bastardnation3@gmail.com @BastardsUnite ____________ HB 1386: Restoration of the Right of Adoptees to Obtain Their Original Birth Certificates House Public …
Continue readingTexas HB 683 Seeks to Expand Baby Moses Abandonment Age to 1-year. Why we oppose
HB 683 posits that anonymously and legally abandoning into the Baby Moses system, an older child up to the age of 1 year–a child with an established identity, family, personal relationships, social and medical history, and ties to the community is necessary, much less ethical. While family counseling, respite care, temporary foster care, and even adoption can be solutions to parental child-rearing problems, anonymously dumping a child of any age—especially an older child–should never be seen and urged as a solution, particularly by the state.
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