Bastard Nation Press Release May 15, 2000 For Immediate Release – May 15, 2000 Contact: Bastard Nation 415-704-3166 ALABAMA OPENS BIRTH AND ADOPTION RECORDS TO ADULT ADOPTEES Bastard Nation, the Adoptee Rights Organization, is extremely …
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Newspaper & Magazine Press Archives
Many of our news archives were lost in the transition to this website. We are trying to recover them. If you have any articles which are not listed here, please forward them to marleygreiner@gmail.com and we will …
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Alabama Sealed: 1991 Unsealed in 2000 Current Access Status: Unsealed OBC available without restriction or condition to adoptees age 19 and older Through a special arrangement with the Adoptee Rights Law Center, Bastard Nation is …
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VII. The Model State Act,the NCFA and the UAA For a brief historical moment in the late 1970s, it looked as though the tide might turn in the direction of open records. In 1978 President …
Continue readingLegal Abandonment Laws Open the Door to Fraud
Action Alert: Legal Abandonment Laws Open the Door to Fraud, Don’t Save Lives July, 2000 Many states around the US have jumped on the Baby Dump Bandwagon by drafting ill-conceived laws to legalize and even …
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Fun for Bastards and Adoptees! Kick back and have a laugh. Some things you have to live to appreciate. 🙂 The BN Calendar!: 365 reasons you can’t have your birth records Legendary Bastards Bastard Verse …
Continue readingDebate on birth records goes to court
Published on April 25, 1999 Debate on birth records goes to court Adoption activists say it’s their constitutional right to find out where they’re from By Gayle Vassar Melvin TIMES STAFF WRITER Adoption activists say …
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Pennsylvania already denies adoptees access to their birth records. Now activists are fighting a proposed law that would make it a crime to search for birth parents. by Frank Lewis The meeting occurred almost 20 …
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By Suzanne Curley. STAFF WRITER A FORTY-something friend of mine brought me to tears a few years back when, gazing at the face of her newborn child, she said, “It’s the first time in my …
Continue readingAdoptees seek state’s help to ease their hunt
Published Sunday, December 6, 1998, in the San Jose Mercury News Adoptees seek state’s help to ease their hunt Open-records law urged BY STEVE JOHNSON Mercury News Staff Writer She was adopted 22 years ago when …
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State Partner Organizations
Proud NYARC Partner
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
Proud TXARC Partner
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