States: Mass

Massachusetts

 

Sealed: 1964

 Access Status:  Insealed November 3, 2022

 

  • Available to all Massachusetts-born adoptees 18 and older.

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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2019 Legislation. All held over for 2020

Records

Medical

 

  • Hearing: Massachusetts Committee on Public Health, May 10, 2021. Witnesses and committee members. Committee wondered why the current law was written the way it is: “What were they thinking?”

    Some of the testimony presented at the hearing. Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy Mass. first mom/ Associate Executive Director of Communications at Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York), Marley Greiner (Executive Chair of Bastard Nation) and Greg Luce (Director and Founder of the Adoptee Rights Law Center/Adoptees United)

     

LINKS

 

House Passes Bill Opening Access To Adoptee Birth Certificates, WBZ-AM, November 4, 2021

Bastard Nation Links

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  • Massachusetts Timeline: Chronology of a Sell-out as Published by The Daily Bastardetette, September 13, 2007 (Guide to over 2 dozen blogs written by Bastard Nation Exe. Chair Marley Greiner on the 2005-2007 OBC access campaign and how Massachusetts adoptees were set up and sold down the river by friends and enemies alike.
Bastard Nation on Beacon Hill, October 27, 2005. Janet Allen, Fred Rust, Marley Greiner,, and Carla McBrine: Truth, Justice, and the American Way for Adoptees, too!
Bastard Nation on Beacon Hill, October 27, 2005. Janet Allen, Fred Rust, Marley Greiner,, and Carla McBrine: Truth, Justice, and the American Way for Adoptees, too!

Janet Allen, Nina Greeley. Marley Greiner, Beacon Hill, October 27, 2005

 

Videos
2019

Representative Garballey, Sponsor of H. 1892 from Jean A. S. Strauss on Vimeo.

 

March 13, 2019-

 

Updated November 3, 2022

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