Connecticut

Unsealed July 1, 2021

Current Access Unsealed

• • All Connecticut-born adoptees can obtain their OBC without restrictions or conditions.
  • Genuine Contact Preference Form which does not affect the release of OBC

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• Through a special arrangement with the Adoptee Rights Law Center, Bastard Nation is linking our individual state pages to ARLC state access law links and summaries. In addition. our state pages include information specific to Bastard Nation actions and activities in each state.

Read about current OBC access legislation with links to current and past years bills at our”Keep Informed” legislative pages (middle sidebar.)

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• Connecticut Access Law and Extended Summary
• Connecticut General Assembly

 

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• Proposed Bill 343
• Proposed Bill 530
• SB972
•  Searchable database of SB972 300+ testimonies

 

• Happy Connecticut Day! OBCS for all starts today! Bastard Nation, July 1, 2021
• CT adoptees can rejoice: it’s now the 10th state to guarantee birth certificate access, CTMirror, June 9, 2021
• Congratulations Connecticut! Welcome to The Top 10. OBC Rights Restored for All! Bastard Nation, June 7, 2021
• Birth certificate bill championed by Cassano becomes law, Manchester Journal-Inquirer, June 3, 2021
• Connecticut: Bastard Nation Letter to Gov. Ned Lamont, Please sign HB 6105; restore OBC right to all, May 31, 2021
• Birth mothers say a bill granting adoptees access to their original birth records is a key step toward healing, Hartford Courant, May 31, 2021
• Connecticut Senate makes it easier for 38,000 adult adoptees to obtain original birth certificates  Hartford Courant, May 25, 2021
• Connecticut Senate passes HB6105! On to the Governor! Bastard Nation, May 25, 2021
• Adoptees Seeking Birth Certificates Try Again, CT News Junkie, February 3, 2021
• Lifting the Veil of Secrecy: Adoptees Push to Make Birth Certificates Accessible. CTLive, February 12, 2021
• Catholic birthmothers to legislators: Help us heal, CT Mirror, May 12, 2021

• Action Alert. Connecticut SB113. Level the playing field. Submit your testimony today., Bastard Nation, February 14, 2020
• Bastard Nation Testimony in Joint Committee for Planning and Development, February 21, 2020  (video)

• Should all Connecticut adoptees have unrestricted access to their original birth certificates?, Hartford Courant, February 24, 2020

• Adoptee birth certificates bill passes committee muster, Manchester Journal-Inquirer, March 2, 2020

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• Greenwich woman’s long quest leads to birthparents. Associated Press, May 15, 2019

• Bastard Nation Testimony in support of SB972–Joint Judiciary Committee, March 15, 2019
• Bastard Nation Action Alert: DO Pass SB972–Joint Judiciary Committee, March 8, 2019

The Presence of a Man, Greg Luce, Adoptee RIghts Law Center, May 29, 2019

• Connecticut Amendment Goes Down in Flames: Legitimate bastard have a right to their OBCs; illegitimate bastards don’t, Bastard Nation, May 30, 2019

Connecticut Has the Chance to Advance Women’s Rights—They Shouldn’t Let It Pass, Ms Magazine, May 31, 2019

• Repeal this archaic law sealing birth records, Connecticut Mirror, June 1, 2019

Bill to allow adoptees full access to birth records expires, Middletown Press, June  5, 2019

• Adoptee access to birth certificate bill dies, Hartford Journal-Inquirer, June 6, 2019

• Bill would allow adoptees access to birth certificates, Milford Mirror, March 20, 2018
• 2018:  HB5408 testimony (various)
• 2018: Bastard Nation Testimony in Support of HB5408, March 7, 2018

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• • Bad News out of Connecticut: SB977 dies at end of session, June 9, 2017
  • Give her and other Connecticut adoptees back their identities, Connecticut Mirror, May 12, 2017
  • 2017: Sub SB977 Bastard Nation Letter of Support, April 19, 2017
  • 2017: Sub SB977 testimony (various)

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• 2015:  HB5144/PA14-133:  ENACTED
• 2015: HB5144/PA14-133 Judicial Probate Summary

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• 2014: Sub 5144  testimony (various)

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•  Connecticut Magazine. Adult adoptees in Connecticut trying to gain access to their birth certificates and own identities,  August 2013
• 2013:  SB59 testimony (various)
• Bastard Nation Letter in Opposition to HB 890, February 8, 2013

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• The Daily Bastardette. The UConn “Daily Campus” projects and protects first moms, April 24, 2007The Daily Bastardette.
• Busted by NCFA: Adventures in DinoLand, July 6, 2006
• The Daily Bastardette. Bastardette’s Letter to Governor Rell, April 29, 2006
• Bastard Nation Action Alert – SB0004–Veto Connecticut!, April 26, 2006

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• Bastard Nation’s letter to Connecticut Law Revision Commission responding to their Report on Sealed Adoption Records. (1999)
• Sealed Adoption Records: Report of the Law Revision Commission of the Judiciary Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly by David Biklen, February 17, 1999

Video

Our Voices: Words that hurt. Words that heal. from Catholic Mothers for Truth on Vimeo.

Updated July 2, 2021

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