This should take about 15-20 minutes in total.We need to flood the Senate Health Committee phone lines with calls of support from Monday morning @9am through Tuesday morning at 11am.The following committee members are NOT co-sponsors of S3419. Please call and politely ask that they cast a “DO PASS” vote on Tuesday, May 14th in the Health Committee. The staff may ask for your zip code. If you are a constituent be sure to mention that. If you aren’t feel free to give themyour current zip code but let them know how this bill would directly impact you or someone you love.
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New York: Action Alert. S3419 Senate Health Committee. Vote Do Pass!
We are on a roll and making history in our fight for the NY Legislature to #GetItRightand #MakeItEqual. We need to put some serious pressure on the Senate Health Committee. #S3419 is on the Senate Health Agenda for Tuesday, May 14th at 11:30. Can you take 3 minutes to email the members of the committee urging them to Pass S3419 out of their Committee? A sample text can be found below but we strongly urge you to personalize the message. If you are a constituent of one of these senators please be sure to indicate that in your email
Continue readingNew York: S3419 scheduled for Senate Health Committee Hearing!
For the first time in the history of Adoptee Rights in NY – an Adoptee Rights Bill will be heard in the Senate Health Committee
Continue readingTexas: TXARC Statement and Action Alert on HB2725
The Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition continues to advocate for passage of HB2725 as it is currently written and as reported favorably from the Public Health committee, without discriminatory amendments. Our work is difficult because of amendments that have already been drafted and presented to legislative staff and legislators. We will not throw up our hands and accept a legislative outcome that may include inequality. Discriminatory amendments are intentional and planned, and our focus is, has, and will always be equality for all Texas adult adopted people.
Continue readingBastard Nation Letter to Texas House. HB 2725 – Restore right of Original Birth Certificates to Adoptees—Please Vote Do Pass AS WRITTEN
HB2725, an inclusive bill. It restores the right of all Texas-born adoptees (and other qualified and designated family if the adoptee is deceased), at age 18, to obtain non-certified copies of their own original birth certificates upon request. It also contains a genuine contact preference form (CPF) that allows birthparents to voluntarily submit a statement of preference regarding contact, but does not veto the release of the OBC or permit redaction or other clerical changes or alterations to the OBC
Continue readingTexas HB2725 and Sub Bill are dead
We are happy to say that HB2725, the good- bill-gone-bad, is dead. Officially dead. Our sources in the Texas Statehouse informed us late last week that a deformed substitute HB2725 was being prepared to be …
Continue readingGood News from New York
Monday (April 30) the New York House Health Committee voted A5497/S3419, the Weprin/Montgomery bill, out of committee with a Do Pass recommendation 24-2 with two absences. The bill has over 100 sponsors with more signing on weekly. This is a huge first step in the decades-long campaign to restore OBC rights in New York. The bill now goes to Codes.
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Cuba Search and Support: unknown (see Operation Pedro Pan below) Links Inside a Cuban Orphanage, Here is Havana, July 31, 2018 Operation Pedro Pan Operation Pedro Pan, Wikipedia Official Pedro Pan webpage (includes links …
Continue readingBastard Nation Letter: Texas: HB2725 Substitute Bill. Please kill it!–Restricted Original Birth Certificate access for adoptees
These amendments ignore genuine access and continue to gut the rights of an estimated half million Texas adoptees to their own OBCs. These numbers (the size of the population of Corpus Christi or Arlington) include newborn, older foster care, and step-parent adoptions. These supposed amendments are an insult to every Texas adoptee They perpetuate the assumption that adult adoptees are untrustworthy and even dangerous and cannot be trusted to handle ownership of their own state-generated and held birth records or even their own histories. These amendments represent Big Government supervision over adoptees’ own publicly-held legal records and their personal relationships.
Continue readingAction Alert: Texas HB2725. Contact Public Health Committee Members: No to Inequality
Contact committee members today to request that they do not consider the substitute bill and to reject discriminatory amendments.
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