Begging for Scraps: Wisconsin Adds DV to Already Bad Bill. Silence Ensues

Well ,surprise! Wisconsin adoptees woke up to the news this morning that Rep Paul Tittl did just like he said he would. Yesterday, Tittl introduced an amendment to his AB 579 to add a birthparent Disclosure Veto to his already bad bill. Here’s the relevant part:

the state registrar shall issue, if available, to the
14requester an unredacted copy of any report of adoption form or similar form
15developed by the department relating to the requester’s adoption if all of the
16following apply:

17(a) The requester’s birth parent’s rights have been terminated in this state; the
18requester has been adopted in this state with the consent of his or her birth parent
19or parents before February 1, 1982; or the requester was born to a surrogate mother
20and a court determined parental rights over the requester, as provided in s. 69.14 (1)
21(h).

22(b) Neither birth parent of the requester has indicated that he or she does not
23want identifying information released regarding the birth parents.

So now Wisconsin adoptees are the object not only of a bad bill but a worse bill than they started with this session.

The original bill called for the release of one routine court document containing identifying information No OBC access was included since previous experience has shown that Wisconsin politicians are more interested in maintaining a birthparent comfort zone over the civil rights of the state’s adopted class. Since that is the case, why even bother with this transparently work-around monstrosity. bound to lose and add one more layer of adoptee defeat to the record.. This isn’t even good conspiracy theory. It’s stupid.

As of this writing Taskforce for Adoptee Equal Rights Taskforce Wisconsin, The Adoptee Rights Coalition, and anti-adoptee deformers such as Rich Urlaub, who support AB 579 as introduced remain silent on the amendment.

As I wrote a few weeks ago:

Rights are not reunions. Continued deformist “baby steps’ endorsements hinder the restoration of rights and OBC unsealing and make the movement a laughing stock

While politicians continue to snicker at the gullibility and inability of so-called adoptee rightsactivists to ask and fight for what they want, I trust that thoughtful Wisconson adoptees and allies are not laughing at this pandering bill and its insulting amendment. I trust they will refuse to accept this scrap thrown at them because baby step idealogues continue to manipulate and disempower them by insisting that baby steps need to return to the movement. It’s a good thing that if woman suffrage or Voting Rights Act of 1964 advocates didn’t use that rationale.

The amendment hasn’t passed yet, but Tittl says wants it.

Heres’s a little bit of inspiration: Craig Hickman’s “Letter to a Wisconsin Bureaucact, first published in his award-winning memoir Fuumbling Through Divinity: the Adoption Scripture and reprinted, with Craig’s permission, in the Daily Bastardette. Craig went on to fight for adoptee rights in Maine where he now lives and is currently a third-term member of the Maine House. Of his search in experience Wisconsin, he writes:

This madness must end.,, Wisconsin bureaucrats treat adult adoptees as second-class citizens who have no right to know anything about their genesis, and this must change even if I die trying to change it.

I look forward to receiving a true clean copy of my adoption file. No more secrets and cover-ups and fear and paranoia. I’m all done with that. Your policies are not founded in ethics, morality, or the law. Furthermore, they protect no one, and they need to be reviewed and changed sooner rather than later.

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