With extremely short notice, the Arizona Senate, called back to session due to failure to pass a budget bill for the coming FY, scheduled a meeting today in Senate Rules to approve the introduction of …
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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has signed HB 6105, a bill that restores the right of all Connecticut-born adoptees to obtain their original birth certificates upon request without restrictions or conditions. The law goes into effect on July 1, 2021.
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On May 13, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed HF 855* a bill that restores the right of Iowa-born adoptees to their Original Birth Certificates. Only it doesn’t. The bill contains a redaction provision, cleverly and erroneously called a Contact Preference Form. This corrupt CPF ignores the “preference” part of its title, and acts as a Disclosure Veto that can allow biological parents to order the state to black out their names and other identifying information—possibly including the adoptee’s original name–on the document before it is released to “their” pesky bastard. In other words, the state is mandated to mutilate its own generated and held record to ease the comfort zone of a small subset of biological parents who just aren’t up to owning their parenthood.
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Although an identical bill sailed through the Arizona House in 2020, this time it was amended down, quickly, with the consent of the fake adoptee advocacy group, Heritage Arizona (aka HA! ) and the sponsor Rep. Bret Roberts to cover only those born in 2022 and beyond; thus, leaving the majority of Arizona-born adoptees behind. In practical terms, the HB 2070 law could not have been utilized by Arizona adoptees until 2040!
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Tonight (May 25) the Connecticut Senate passed HB 6105, a bill that obliterates the state’s black hole where more than 38,000 Original Birth Certificates were tosssed into suspended animation. because the people they belonged to were born on the wrong day. Under a deform law passed over 15 years ago, those adopted on or after October 1, 1983 were granted full unretricted OBC access; those born before were forced to throw themselves on the mercy of a judge to maybe get a court order. Since then several attempts were made to right this wrong, and tonight Connecticut adoptees won.
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Senator Quezada asked if the bill was Constitutionally sound because of its tiered access/doughnut hole/black hole specification that would keep the OBCs of adoptees born in Arizona between 1968-January 1, 2022 sealed. The Senate Rules Counsel assured him that tiered access is about maintaining an “expectation of privacy” in adoption whether or not there was any “official” expectation, and that OBC access is a matter of “policy” not a Constitutional issue. Policy? Seriously? Equal protection is a policy issue, devoid of Constitutional merit?
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The State of Texas must stop keeping adopted people secret and hidden. Free our birth certificates. Normalize bastardy. Make Texas a pioneer in the restoration of our rights. When Texas cracks its locked adoption vault open, states will crack, too.
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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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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 …
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Bastard Nation is a proud partner organization in the New York Adoptee Rights Coalition, along with the Adoptee Rights Law Center and the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York. Plus strategic partner Reclaim the Records
Bastard Nation is a proud partner in the Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition, along with Equality for Adoption, Gladney Adoptees for Rights and Equality, and the Adoptee Rights Law Center. Plus strategic partner Reclaim the Records