Connecticut Senate passes HB6105! On to the Governor!

May 26, 2021

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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Arizona: Bad News and Updated Action Alert. Act Now!

May 24, 2021

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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Bastard Nation Action Alert: Massachusetts H2294/S1440 – Contact Joint Committee on Public Health, Vote Do Pass

May 6, 2021

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. 

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Maryland: SB 331 Defeat: Adoptee Civil Rights is “A Bad Idea”

March 31, 2021

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? 

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