We have the votes for passage of A5494/S3419; the #WeprinMontgomeryBill. Equality should be an easy ask.
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New York History Made! S3419/A5494 passes Senate 53-6! On to the Assembly!
Bastard Nation, the Adoptee Rights Organization is delighted that the New York Senate has passed. The 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 New York adoptees.
Continue readingSpeaker Heastie: Bring AB5494 to the Codes Committee agenda as soon as possible.
lease bring this bill to the Codes Committee agenda as soon as possible. The bill has overwhelming bipartisan support in the Assembly and is awaiting a floor vote in the Senate where it is expected to pass. This bill is a direct result of the Governor’s veto of regressive legislation in December of 2017 and his subsequent mandated workgroup.
Continue readingNew York A5494: Speaker Heastie: Let’s Move A5494 Forward
Bastard Nation is a proud member of the New York Adoptee Rights Coalition Action Alert for the Week of May 27 Assembly Bill A5494 passed out of the Health Committee on April 30 and …
Continue readingNew York: S3419 Makes History: Passes out of Senate Health Committee!
BULLETIN: Bastards made history this morning! S3419, the Senate version of the Weprin/.Montgomery bill passed out of the Senate Health Committee with flying colors and a shout out from Sen Gustavo Rivera (D-33). This is …
Continue readingNew York S3419: Bastard Nation’s letter to the Senate Health Committee. Please vote Do Pass!
S3419 treats the state’s adoptees as equal with the not-adopted. It stops the humiliating onerous legal (and often costly) process for adoptees simply to get their own birth certificates.Moreover, there is no state interest in segregating adoptees and keeping original birth certificates sealed from adult adoptees to which they pertain. Nor does the state have a right or duty to mediate and oversee the personal relationships of its citizens.
Continue readingMaine LD1688. Bastard Nation Testimony to House Judiciary Committee. Do Not Pass!
What adoptees want is the government held-copy of our birth. We want an us-centric birth certificate, not one that features other players. We do not want the names of adoptive parents who had nothing to do with the birth on the birth certificate. That doesn’t even make any sense. We do not want add-ons or amendments. We do not want a whackadoodle certificate that singles us out and might not even be legal by federal standards.We are not a footnote to our own births, We are not Comments.
Continue readingNew York S3419: NYARC Urgent 26 Hour Action Alert. Senate Health Committee
This should take about 15-20 minutes in total.We need to flood the Senate Health Committee phone lines with calls of support from Monday morning @9am through Tuesday morning at 11am.The following committee members are NOT co-sponsors of S3419. Please call and politely ask that they cast a “DO PASS” vote on Tuesday, May 14th in the Health Committee. The staff may ask for your zip code. If you are a constituent be sure to mention that. If you aren’t feel free to give themyour current zip code but let them know how this bill would directly impact you or someone you love.
Continue readingNew York: Action Alert. S3419 Senate Health Committee. Vote Do Pass!
We are on a roll and making history in our fight for the NY Legislature to #GetItRightand #MakeItEqual. We need to put some serious pressure on the Senate Health Committee. #S3419 is on the Senate Health Agenda for Tuesday, May 14th at 11:30. Can you take 3 minutes to email the members of the committee urging them to Pass S3419 out of their Committee? A sample text can be found below but we strongly urge you to personalize the message. If you are a constituent of one of these senators please be sure to indicate that in your email
Continue readingNew York: S3419 scheduled for Senate Health Committee Hearing!
For the first time in the history of Adoptee Rights in NY – an Adoptee Rights Bill will be heard in the Senate Health Committee
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