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Action Alert: Urgent! Join the Adoptee Citizenship Act Virtual Rally, September 23. Here’s how!

Marley Greiner — Sun, 20 Sep 2020 23:44:18 +0000

Big news! We’ve hit a key milestone with the Adoptee Citizenship Act and we need YOU to speak up for citizenship for ALL adoptees. Join us for a Virtual Rally on Twitter this Wednesday to demand that lawmakers pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act, H.R. 2731, and ensure citizenship for ALL adoptees.

On Wednesday, September 23rd, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration & Citizenship will discuss and listen to evidence regarding “Immigrants as Essential Workers During COVID-19.” During this time, a statement by Adoptees for Justice will be submitted to the Subcommittee. If the statement is accepted, H.R. 2731 will move onto markup, the next step in the legislative process.

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New York Adoptees: The Countdown is Over– OBCs Officially Open

Marley Greiner — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 01:35:54 +0000

Now the day has arrived--January 15, 2020--and you can receive your OBC and related documents without restriction, without condition, without groveling.

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The Application Process for OBCs in New York STATE is online.

Marley Greiner — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 17:32:30 +0000

The New York State Department of Health has released information as well as a FAQ for how it will handle applications for OBCs. Submissions will not be accepted until January 15, 3030, the effective date of the law. Please read this information especially the FAQ carefully .

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Update: New York Release of OBCs

Marley Greiner — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 02:49:08 +0000

We are ten days away from the effective date of historic legislation that allows any and all New York born adult adoptees to apply for and receive a certified copy of their own original birth certificates.

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Massachusetts: Bastard Nation Testimony in support of H1892/S1267–unrestricted access for all

Marley Greiner — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 19:46:43 +0000

Since then Maine, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Colorado, and New York, (one of the tightest sealed states in the US) have unsealed OBC s, and in some cases related records to their adoptees wthout restriction. With the overturning of sealed records laws, changed social and cultural mores, inexpensive DNA tests, social, media, and a large corps of “search angels,” the days of secret and sealed adoption are over, Massachusetts has no state interest in keeping its adoptees and their records segregated and divided by age and adoption date.

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Action Alert: Massachusetts H1892/S1267 Fill the gap. All MA adoptees deserve their OBCs

Marley Greiner — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 01:34:30 +0000

H1892 and S1267 are currently in the Joint Committee on Public Health. These companion bills are clean and probably the shortest OBC access bill in history. When enacted the gap between the haves and have nots, the worthies and the unworthies, will be closed, and the right of all Massachusetts adoptees, without restriction, to their own OBCs will be restored.

Bastard Nation has supported these bills and similar bills for years. Unfortunately, they are a low priority and are left to die at the end of each 2-year session. This discrimination has got to stop.

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Action Alert URGENT! Prince Edward Island Bill 29. Contains veto and criminalizes contact. Vote No!

Marley Greiner — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 03:20:09 +0000

In the name of "adoption reform, the Prince Edward Assembly is attempting to sneak a bill through that will continue to abrogate the right of the province's adoptees to access their Original Birth Certificate, without restriction or conditions. A final vote can take place as early as this coming Tuesday, November 26.

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Bastard Nation Statement: Cuomo Signs Historic Adoptee Rights Bill. Leaves No One Behind!

Marley Greiner — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 05:22:41 +0000

Bastard Nation, the Adoptee Rights Organization is delighted that New York governor Andrew Cuomo today signed S3419. This historic bill restores the right, of Original Birth Certificate (OBC) access to all the state’s adoptees without restriction or condition-- a right once held by all New York adoptees. It passed both Houses in June, and although we were confident that Gov. Cuomo would sign the bill, it was a long, nail-biting wait.

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Marley Greiner — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:15:55 +0000

t’s been almost four months since passage of S3419, New York’s historic equal rights legislation. Yet one critical step remains: making sure Governor Andrew Cuomo signs S3419 into law. While the bill is not yet on his desk, we have continued to let him know how important this bill is for all of us. That’s where you also come in, likely again.

Even if you have done so already, contact Governor Cuomo once more to request that he sign S3419 into law. The bill will end more than eight decades of secrecy surrounding adoptees’ original birth certificates. It’s important for all of us to contact him. It’s important now whether you have contacted him before or whether have never contacted him at all. Your voice has made a difference in the past and it continues to make a difference today.

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Marley Greiner — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 19:33:38 +0000

We've been assured by top officials in New York that there is zero confusion between S3419, our adoptee rights bill, and another bill related to termination of parental rights.

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