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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BULLETIN: Bastards made history this morning! S3419, the Senate version of the Weprin/.Montgomery bill passed out of the Senate Health Committee with flying colors and a shout out from Sen Gustavo Rivera (D-33). This is …
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S3419 treats the state’s adoptees as equal with the not-adopted. It stops the humiliating onerous legal (and often costly) process for adoptees simply to get their own birth certificates.Moreover, there is no state interest in segregating adoptees and keeping original birth certificates sealed from adult adoptees to which they pertain. Nor does the state have a right or duty to mediate and oversee the personal relationships of its citizens.
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What adoptees want is the government held-copy of our birth. We want an us-centric birth certificate, not one that features other players. We do not want the names of adoptive parents who had nothing to do with the birth on the birth certificate. That doesn’t even make any sense. We do not want add-ons or amendments. We do not want a whackadoodle certificate that singles us out and might not even be legal by federal standards.We are not a footnote to our own births, We are not Comments.
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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
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For the first time in the history of Adoptee Rights in NY – an Adoptee Rights Bill will be heard in the Senate Health Committee
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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.
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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
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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 …
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Bastard Nation is a proud partner organization in the New York Adoptee Rights Coalition, along with the Adoptee Rights Law Center and the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York. Plus strategic partner Reclaim the Records
Bastard Nation is a proud partner in the Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition, along with Equality for Adoption, Gladney Adoptees for Rights and Equality, and the Adoptee Rights Law Center. Plus strategic partner Reclaim the Records