Article I. Name of Organization The name of the organization shall be Bastard Nation the Adoptee Rights Organization. Article II. Purpose Bastard Nation is dedicated to the recognition of the full human and civil rights …
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Good News from Missouri: Reclaim the Records takes down bureaucratic secret keepers
In 2016 Reclaim the Records, using the Missouri Sunshine Law, requested a simple database extraction of state birth and death listings from January 1, 1910-December 31, 2015. According to Reclaim the Records attorney, Bernie Rhodes, the extraction should “take only a few keystrokes” to complete. DHSS , however, for reasons unknown, responded with a “backdoor denial.” It first demanded $1.49 million to fulfill the request, crazy-claiming compilation would take over 35,000 staff hours at $42.50 per hour (!) When Reclaim the Records balked, the fee was lowered mysteriously to a still high $5000. Then, DHSS rejected the request in full and ran to former Missouri Registrar Garland Land for advice on how to keep the birth and death indices from public perusal.
Continue readingPut Yourself in History! Times Change–Except for Bastards: Bastard Nation’s Sealed Records State-by State Timeline
Use our timeline for amusement and education. Imagine the fun you’ll have telling your state legislators that your records were sealed before Pearl Harbor was bombed; Babe Ruth retired and Jackie Robinson broke the color line; school segregation was illegal; Social Security and the CIA existed; Watergate, Elizabeth was Queen; Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were assassinated….and before most of those lawmakers were born.
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Political, Search and Reunion Kradjabeba (Return the Children (Serbian, Bosnian, English) kradjabeba.org (Facebook) Links Zorica Jovanovic v. Serbia, Global Health and Human Rights Database, 2013 Serbia: Missing Babies, DW.com, February 18, 2015 …
Continue readingBastard Nation Action Alert and Letter: Kentucky HB447 Baby Drop Box Bill. Do Not Pass
The Kentucky Legislature has been closed down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it is scheduled to re-open (as of this writing) on April 14, 2020. We don’t know if that will happen, but now …
Continue readingUtah continues to deform
This week Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert signed two bills that continue to abrogate the rights of Utah–born adoptees.
Continue readingUtah HB345: Bastard Nation Asks Gov. Herbert to Veto/ Action Alert
Not only were adoptees and their rights trivialized, but their hope of equal treatment under law, due process, and right to “personal records” (words from the bill) were played with. HB345 is no only bad politics, but cruel politics. Due to HB 345, real people, with real faces, real names, real families, real records, and real hopes were hung out to dry apparently to get “something passed” at the end of the session that legislators didn’t even care enough about to discuss in public. The outcome of HB345 suggests that the purpose of records access is personal reunion rather than political rights. The result will be the increased use of “outing” mechanisms such as social media and online DNA tests, which often involve public exposure of the names and other private information of adoptee and birthparents, rather than the quiet release of a state-held document to adoptees.
Continue readingThings for Homebound Bastards to Do During COVID-19 Lockdown
Stuck at home with “nothing to do?” Don’t be a bored bastard. Here are some ideas.
Continue readingHB1039 passes Maryland House overwhelmingly. Now on to Senate! Help us!
From Capitol Coalition for Adoptee Rights: Maryland’s HB1039 has passed the House, 130-8, with adoptee delegates stepping up to support the bill’s passage! On to the Senate. Keep up with efforts, join us, and …
Continue readingBastard Nation Action Alert: Utah H345 restricted bill goes to Senate. Kill it now!
Please drop a line to Utah Senators and ask them to oppose HB 345. .There is no state interest in keeping original birth certificates sealed from adult adoptees to which they pertain. Nor does the state have a right or duty to mediate and oversee the personal relationships of adults. Those who claim a statutory right to parental anonymity through sealed records, as found in HB 345, promote statutory privilege and state favoritism. This is not a bill adoptees want or need. Only unrestricted, unconditional OBC access is acceptable.
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