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Congratulations Louisiana-born adoptees!  Today your right to your original birth certificate is officially restored after 45 years of sealing. Have at it! Let us know when you get it,l send stories, comments, Here is how to obtain your Louisiana Original Birth Certificate. 

This afternoon the Massachusetts Senate by a vote of 40-0 passed he measure passed the House last year and has been held up in the Senate Rules committee since then.  Earlier today it was released from the committee and sent to the Senate floor for an immediate vote. There is no reason to think that Governor Charlie Baker will not sign on.  In effect, the days of segregated Original Birth Certificate access are about to end in Massachusets.

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.