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Oregon Measure 58: 25 Years Later

Marley Greiner — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:12:51 +0000

25 years have passed since Helen Hill and Bastard Nation launched the 3rd wave of the adoptee rights movement with our successful Oregon Ballot Measure 58....We've wondered how many certs Oregon has released since then. Here's the latest report straight from the state:

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Bastard Nation Action Alert: Massachusetts H1892/S1267. Contact MA Senate Today! Vote Do Pass

Marley Greiner — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:32:22 +0000

The bill needs to be brought to the Senate floor for a vote.

We urge you to:

1) Write, e-mail or call members of the Senate and urge them to bring the bill to the floor and to vote DO PASS!

2) Ask friends and family in Massachusetts to contact the Senate. The more legislators hear from constituents, the greater the chance of success!

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What in the World is Wisconsin Doing?

Marley Greiner — Sat, 21 Dec 2019 06:56:04 +0000

If passed, instead of receiving their Original Birth Certificates upon request, Lucky Bastards will receive a court -generated document-- a copy of their Report of Adoption.form, The form is routinely sent by the court to the Wisconsin Office of Vital Statistics after an adoption is finalized, to request the Amended Birth Certificate be issued–if the adoptive parents have requested a new certificate. It includes the names of the child, birth and adoptive parents and other OBC information.

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AdoptionLand Loses Another One: RIP Kate Cleary

Marley Greiner — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:19:43 +0000

Kate was an adoptee rights pioneer. She served as the president of the American Adoption Congress in the late 1980s and early '90s when it was.one of the few rights organizations around.. In 1999 she founded the Consortium for Children in San Rafael. California. to provide support and technical assistance to both public and private child welfare agencies.to create. positive outcomes for children and their families. thrown into "the system."

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Bastard Nation Letter to PEI Assembly: Reject Bill No 29

Marley Greiner — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 07:21:51 +0000

Bill No. 29 clearly holds PEI’s adopted citizens to a greater set of birth record access requirements than the not-adopted who can access their record for the asking, Disclosure and contact vetoes, fines and jails cells all go against best practice adoption standards. These provisions are not only insulting to PEI’s adoptees, but are cruel and ugly. They pathologize adoptees and adoption as social institution. They make adoption and adoptees shameful and suggests to the public that we are dangerous.

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