During Tueday’s floor debate Somers introduced an amendment that guts the bill. Not only that but takes away, for all intents and purposes. the already established right of adoptees eligible to access their OBCs. Sen Somers wants to require a father’s man’s name to be on the original birth certificate before being released to an adult adoptee. Ironically Sen Somers, says that the current law is “anti-woman.” Showing her adopteephobia, Somers added that the current law “opens wounds from the past, implying we are runny sores.
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Speaker Heastie: Bring AB5494 to the Codes Committee agenda as soon as possible.
lease bring this bill to the Codes Committee agenda as soon as possible. The bill has overwhelming bipartisan support in the Assembly and is awaiting a floor vote in the Senate where it is expected to pass. This bill is a direct result of the Governor’s veto of regressive legislation in December of 2017 and his subsequent mandated workgroup.
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Bastard Nation is a proud member of the New York Adoptee Rights Coalition Action Alert for the Week of May 27 Assembly Bill A5494 passed out of the Health Committee on April 30 and …
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Activist, Search, Support Birthlink Movement for an Adoption Apology National Records of Scotland Links ‘APOLOGY MEANS NOTHING’ : Scots rape survivor blasts Quarriers for dumping orphans overseas to be molested, The Sun, December 7. …
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Activist, Search,Support Laws UK Adoption Records Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 Adoption Agencies (Scotland) Regulations 1996 Links Bosnia adoptions could force UK babies to back of queue: The Government wants to speed adoption by …
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Activist, Search, Support Adoptee Rights Council (formerly CRIB) Adoptee Rights Council – Facebook Links Adopted child, deported adult: The ‘American’ living in India without an ID for 9 yrs, News Minute, February 14 …
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Activist, Search, Support Filipino Adoption Network (English) Filipino Adoption Network Facebook Links Found My Birth Mother. It Didn’t Rock My Life — And That’s OK, NPR, October 28, 2018 Congress expected to ratify bill …
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Activist, Search, Reunion Chinese Adult Adoptee Worldwide Reunion Links NA helping Chinese adoptees do what was once impossible: Locate blood relatives in this country, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 15, 2019 ‘We have never abandoned you’: A …
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Activist, Search, Reunion Links Adoptee wins right to know mother’s identity, swissinfo.ch, March 19, 2002 Switzerland: Revision of adoption law enters into force, Global Legal Monitor, Library of Congress, January 2018 Is adoption …
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Activist, Search, Support German Birth Register.com Black German Cultural Society Links WW2 GI Babies: Children of the Enemy, Der Speigel, January 2, 2007 Germany’s war children scramble to find their GI fathers, collected …
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