Below is the action alert our friends at The Adoptee Rights Law Center sent out over the weekend. Join us in killing this horrible horrible horrible bill that is scheduled to be heard in the Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee on Monday, March 11.The action alert is self-explanatory.
Continue readingBastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization PO Box 4607 New Windsor, New York 12553-7845 bastards.org 614-795-6819 bastardnation3@gmail.com TO: Honorable Members of the West Virginia House of Representatives and Senate FROM: …
Continue readingBastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization PO Box 4607 New Windsor, New York 12553-7845 bastards.org 614-795-6819 bastardnation3@gmail.com Submitted Testimony/Comments HB 550 Subcommittee on Health, Welfare, and Institutions Virginia House of Representatives January 18, …
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The outrage is that we must respect the righs of the adoptive parents and the birth parents. What about the rights of the adut adoptee being conditional on the whims of other people?
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On July 1, 2023, Vermont and South Dakota became the latest states to unseal without condition or restriction, the Original Birth Certificates of their state-born adoptees. And there’s more to come!
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AB 1302 would create a clumsy, cumbersome, and unduly burdensome TRIPLE notification procedure in the hands of the Department of Health. While no fiscal note is yet attached to the bill, I can imagine the cost in millions will fall on adoptees and other voters in California.
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SB64 should have passed the House. The bill was a shoo-in. It had no organized opposition. Even traditional opponents agreed to remain neutral. The bill zipped through the Senate and the House Judiciary Committee unanimously. But then something happened. A small group of politicians found the right of their own state’s adopted people to obtain their own Original Birth Certificates “troublesome.” and “problematic,” or something worse. I don’t know their objections (I can guess) or who they are, though it is likely that House Speaker Jon Burns was among them. Did at least some of them have “a little something” to hide? Whatever was going on, they decided to keep Class Bastard Georgia in line. If SB64 isn’t heard and doesn’t exist on the agenda then adoptees don’t.
Continue readingBastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization P.O. Box 4607 New Windsor, New York 12553-7845 bastards.org 614-795-6819 @BastardsUnite FROM Marley Greiner Executive Chair RE: SB64—Original Birth Certificates. Letter in SUPPORT. VOTE DO …
Continue readingBastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization PO Box 4607 New Windsor, New York 12553-7845 614-795-6819 bastards.org bastards3@gmail.com @BastardsUnite __________ TO: Senate Health Policy Committee FROM: …
Continue readingBastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization PO Box 4607 New Windsor, New York 12553-7845 bastards.org 614-795-6819 @BastardsUnite bastardnation3@gmail.com Submitted Comments HB 1231 South Dakota Senate Health and Human Services Committee February 27, 2023 Marley E. …
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