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Connecticut Senate passes HB6105! On to the Governor!
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.
Continue readingArizona: Bad News and Updated Action Alert. Act Now!
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?
Continue readingSpeech at Rally for Adoptee Equality, Texas Statehouse, by Marley Greiner, Exe. Chair of Bastard Nation,May 20, 2021
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.
Continue readingAction Alert: Arizona HB2070 pulled from death. Kill it now!
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!
Continue readingAction 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.
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