Pennsylvania
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Sealed: 1985
Access Status: Restricted
- No OBC released; only type-written summary of information from it
- Adoptees must be 18 years of age, a high school graduate/ hold GED./ have legally dropped out of school to receive identifying information from summary
- Birth parent redacation of information from summary
Through a special arrangement with the Adoptee Rights Law Center [2], 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 and about current OBC access.
Read about current OBC access legislation with links to current and past years’ bills at our”Keep Informed” legislative pages (middle sidebar.)
- 2023 Legislation: SB736 (OBC)
- Access law and extended summary [3]
- Pennsylvania General Assembly [4]
- Sealing the Records in Pennsylvania [5] by Cynthia Bertrand Holub
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This is what passes for adoptee equality and records access in Pennsylvania: Starting November 3, 2017 some Pennsylvania adoptees became eligible to receive a copy of their original birth certificates. Scratch that! Some adoptees became eligible to receive a quaint summary of information taken from their OBC. Here is what you get”
[6]If we find a plain paper copy we ill post it here.
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LINKS
- Adoption Searches as Humanitarian Intervention: An adoption industry cash cow [7], Daily Bastardtette, November 3, 2015
- Bastard Nation Action Alert, [8]September 15, 2015
- Bastard Nation Action Alert on amended bill. [9]. June 27, 2015
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- Pennsylvania: Justice once more denied [10], Daily Bastardette, September 16, 2014
- Personal Testimony in Support by Marley Greiner, Exe.Chair, Bastard Nation [11], March 28, 2014
- Pennsylvania: “Creating another generation of victims is not the answer.” Letter to the PA Coalition AOrdergainst Rape from Kristi Lado, [12]March 19, 2014
- PA NOW Joins Catholic Bishops; opposes OBC acces [13]s, March 17, 2014
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- Audio: July 17, 2013 hearing in CYC [14]
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- Pennsylvania: Bastard Nation Letter to Rep. Oliver: Please schedule hearings on HB1978 [15], August 16, 2010
Updated July 4, 2023
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