In recent years, lawmakers in several states have made birth certificates more accessible. Texas should do the same this session.
Continue readingDallas Morning News Editorial Board Endorses HB1386/SB1877, April 30, 2021
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How 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.
Continue readingBastard Nation Testimony in Support of Texas HB 1386, March 17, 2021
Currently, Texas-born adoptees are subjected to serious discriminatory practices hindering their ability to obtain their Original Birth Certificates. Since 2005 the state has released OBCs upon request only to adoptees, who know the name(s) of the parent(s) listed on the document. These OBCs are released without the knowledge or consent of those parents.
The vast majority of everyone else is forced to navigate a cumbersome, difficult, humiliating, and insulting gauntlet of restrictions, arbitrary legal procedures, and naysayers,. and are almost always unsuccessful in their quest. The result of this discrimination is that adoptees are left to their own devices to obtain their own information through inexpensive DNA testing, social media, volunteer search angels, paid searchers. or their own sheer perseverance. I have known adoptees who have spent 30 years or more digging up information and spent over $50,000 in the process
Continue readingBastard Nation Action Alert: Arizona HB 2070. Do Not Pass
The once clean HB 2070 has been gutted and corrupted. It no longer addresses the rights and needs of Arizona-born adoptees. The bill has is now
(1) prospective-only starting in 2022
(2) specifically bars the vast majority of the state’s adoptees–those adopted between 1968-2021– from obtaining the state-held record of their births that belongs to them.
Continue readingLegislative Updates and Bastard Nation Testimony, March 7, 2021
The latest Bastard Nation Legislative page is now up. There are lots of changes since last week, including the movement forward of bad bills in Idaho and Iowa. On the federal level, we have the introduction of the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2021.a re-introduction of the Adoptee Citizenship Act, 2019-2020.
Continue readingBastard Nation Testimony in Support of Maryland SB 331. Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee
Current Maryland law let’s adopted people at the age of 21 years or older whose adoptions were finalized on or after January 1, 2000 to receive their OBC on request, subject to disclosure veto filings; thus, granting a favor for some adoptees but not others depending upon date of birth, adoption and third-person approval. Until all adoptees have a right to unrestricted ownership of their original birth certificates none enjoy that right. It is only a discriminatory favor and privilege.
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