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Arizona Under the Bridge

Marley Greiner — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 21:10:29 +0000

The bills from the beginning were pimped by the fake adoptee advocacy group Arizona Heritage (HA!) headed by adoptee-not-born-in Arizona-no-skin-in-the-game Britany Luna, MSW. The group went silent in public after the fix was in. Its Facebook page is now private, secret, or dead. Even more interesting the HA website hasn't hype-hype horrayed their "victory!" The politically influential right-wing anti-abortion (and anti-queer) “traditional family values” crowd at the Center for Arizona Policy (CAP) joined them in their adopteephobic scheme. CAP is funded in large part by the National Christian Charitable Foundation, an organization unded with money from Hobby Lobby.

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Marley Greiner — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 17:46:00 +0000

Let's finish the job! The Adoptee Rights Law Center has compiled a short update and pre-assembled tweets to send to Arizona lawmakers.

Go to: Tweet to Arizona Legislators,

Copy, Paste. Send.

We win when we work together!

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Arizona: Please sign Joint Letter to Arizona lawmakers to reject SB1831/HB2921; guts adoptee rights

Marley Greiner — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 17:16:28 +0000

Bastard Nation has joined The Adoptee Rights Law Center call for adoptees and allies from across the country to stop the Arizona legislature from destroying the OBC rights of the majority of the state's adopted class.

The proposed law black-holes all Arizona adoptees born between 1968-2021 from obtaining their original birth certificates without a court order.

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Arizona: Bastard Nation Letter to Senate Rules Committee. Bad bill could be reintroduced. Vote NO!

Marley Greiner — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:54:27 +0000

With extremely short notice, the Arizona Senate, called back to session due to failure to pass a budget bill for the coming FY, scheduled a meeting today in Senate Rules to approve the introduction of ...

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The Arizona Surprise! HB 2070 Vetoed

Marley Greiner — Sun, 30 May 2021 23:37:18 +0000

Although an identical bill sailed through the Arizona House in 2020, this time it was amended down, quickly, with the consent of the fake adoptee advocacy group, Heritage Arizona (aka HA! ) and the sponsor Rep. Bret Roberts to cover only those born in 2022 and beyond; thus, leaving the majority of Arizona-born adoptees behind. In practical terms, the HB 2070 law could not have been utilized by Arizona adoptees until 2040!

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Arizona: Bad News and Updated Action Alert. Act Now!

Marley Greiner — Tue, 25 May 2021 00:28:34 +0000

Senator Quezada asked if the bill was Constitutionally sound because of its tiered access/doughnut hole/black hole specification that would keep the OBCs of adoptees born in Arizona between 1968-January 1, 2022 sealed. The Senate Rules Counsel assured him that tiered access is about maintaining an "expectation of privacy" in adoption whether or not there was any "official" expectation, and that OBC access is a matter of "policy" not a Constitutional issue. Policy? Seriously? Equal protection is a policy issue, devoid of Constitutional merit?

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Action Alert: Arizona HB2070 pulled from death. Kill it now!

Marley Greiner — Sat, 22 May 2021 23:51:15 +0000

This horrible bill, at the last moment, has been pulled from the jaws of death and is scheduled to be heard before the Senate Rules Committee on Monday, May 24, 2021. It will most likely pass and be sent to the Senate Floor. It has already passed the House. Help us stop passage!

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Bastard Nation Action Alert: Arizona HB 2070. Do Not Pass

Marley Greiner — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 07:16:47 +0000

The once clean HB 2070 has been gutted and corrupted. It no longer addresses the rights and needs of Arizona-born adoptees. The bill has is now

(1) prospective-only starting in 2022

(2) specifically bars the vast majority of the state’s adoptees–those adopted between 1968-2021– from obtaining the state-held record of their births that belongs to them.

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Not with a Bang! Not with a Whimper! Arizona HB 2070 Gets Ripped While “Activists” Go Quiet

Marley Greiner — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 07:07:53 +0000

t was amended down. A lot. Instead of unrestricted unsealing, the Committee decided to keep records closed for those born between 1968-2021. That's well over half of Arizona adoptees who will (if the bill passes) remain sealed and secret, An amendment was also offered but rejected to add a Disclosure Veto. Oh, and another politician is worried about protecting the “DNA rights “ of birthparents. What's he want to do? Ban adoptees from owning Ancestry accounts? Perhaps he was channeling Bill Pierce who long ago declared that it should be illegal for adoptees to use phone books to look for first parents. This is the kind of nonsense Class Bastard is subjected to daily by legos and lawmakers.

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Arizona: Unrestricted HB2600 passes House; on to Senate

Marley Greiner — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:18:57 +0000

Arizona has a long,curious and confusing history of adoptee records access. Before 1945 OBCs were open to the adoptee and the general public. In 1952 OBCs were closed to the public but still open to the adoptee. In 1967 OBCs were sealed to all adoptees. In 1997 OBCs were unsealed to a select few adoptees whose adoptions had been finalized 75 years ago or longer(!) Then in 2004 OBCs were again sealed to all adoptees This jumble of yes, no maybe, and no again makes no sense, especially now in an era of openness and transparency in adoption and the unsealing of adoption records around the country

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