Today, July 1, is Connecticut’s Day!
Welcome to the Golden Circle! The Big Ten! The 10th State to acknowledge and restore the right of all its state-born adoptees to their Original Birth Certificates.
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Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has signed HB 6105, a bill that restores the right of all Connecticut-born adoptees to obtain their original birth certificates upon request without restrictions or conditions. The law goes into effect on July 1, 2021.
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Tonight (May 25) the Connecticut Senate passed HB 6105, a bill that obliterates the state’s black hole where more than 38,000 Original Birth Certificates were tosssed into suspended animation. because the people they belonged to were born on the wrong day. Under a deform law passed over 15 years ago, those adopted on or after October 1, 1983 were granted full unretricted OBC access; those born before were forced to throw themselves on the mercy of a judge to maybe get a court order. Since then several attempts were made to right this wrong, and tonight Connecticut adoptees won.
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Bastard Nation and its members in Maryland have worked in Maryland since the late 1990s to secure a change in OBC/adoption record access laws that restore the right of all the state’s adoptees ,not just the select few as under current law who are currently forced to navigate a cumbersome, difficult, and insulting gauntlet of restrictions, arbitrary procedures, and naysayers, to receive their own OBC,s which are rightfully theirs, without restriction.
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The passage in 2015 of Public Act 14-133 which restored the right of OBC access to Connecticut adopted persons whose adoptions were finalized after October 1, 1983, shows that the legislature understands the justice in OBC access. Unfortunately, 30,000 of the state’s adoptees were left behind in that limited law—their records remaining sealed and available only through a court order. SB 113 finishes the job making all Connecticut adoptees subject to the same right of access and due process.
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During Tueday’s floor debate Somers introduced an amendment that guts the bill. Not only that but takes away, for all intents and purposes. the already established right of adoptees eligible to access their OBCs. Sen Somers wants to require a father’s man’s name to be on the original birth certificate before being released to an adult adoptee. Ironically Sen Somers, says that the current law is “anti-woman.” Showing her adopteephobia, Somers added that the current law “opens wounds from the past, implying we are runny sores.
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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