California AB1302: Bastard Nation Letter of Opposition to House Health Committee

April 18, 2023

AB1302 is clearly adopteephobic, discriminatory, and frankly bigoted– and it clearly was written with no adoptee input. It has no support from any adoptee rights, adoption reform, or child welfare organization in the country. If this bill were about any other marginalized group and written without any input from them–African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asians, women, queers, trans, Jews, Muslims, disabled, it would never see the light of day.

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California AB1302: 2nd Bastard Nation Letter of Opposition

March 20, 2023

I really have no idea what the purpose of this bill is or why it has been brought forward, but it is clearly adopteephobic, discriminatory, and frankly bigoted– and it clearly was written with no adoptee input. It has no support from any adoptee rights, adoption reform, or child welfare organization in the country. If this bill were about any other marginalized group and written without any input from them–African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asians, women, queers, trans, Jews, Muslims, disabled, it would never see the light of day.

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California AB1302: Already restrictive adds more restrictions and massive burreaucracy. Act Now!

March 18, 2023

In other words, in order to protect the “privacy” (don’t they mean anonymity?)  of biological parents from their own offspring, the State of California, upon receipt of an adoptee request for their OBC, would send to the parents at “the best available address” a  Registered or Certified letter with restricted receipt requiring a signature, enclosing a notice of the request and a birthparent permission slip. A “reminder notice” will be sent 150 days later, if the original letter generates no response.

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California AB1302. Bastard Nation Letter of Opposition. Reactionary and Old School

March 15, 2023

The California House Judiciary Committee is set to hold a hearing on AB1302 on March 21.. This is a terrible reactionary bill,that includes biological parent redactions and maintains a complicated court procedure to obtain OBCs. California is the crown jewel. Passage of this bill would not only mean a defeat for the adopted people and the adoptee rights movement but probably make access worse in the state than it is now. It would be impossible to revisit for years.

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