Minnesota Archives | Bastard Nation https://bastards.org/tag/minnesota-adoptee-rights/ The Adoptee Rights Organization Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:05:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://bastards.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/8/files/2015/12/cropped-bASTARD-BOUTIQUE-32x32.jpg Minnesota Archives | Bastard Nation https://bastards.org/tag/minnesota-adoptee-rights/ 32 32 158542501 James Hamilton: Rest in Peace http://bastards.org/james-hamilton-rest-in-peace/ http://bastards.org/james-hamilton-rest-in-peace/#comments Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:51:20 +0000 https://bastards.org/?p=13496 James M. Hamilton, after a heroic battle with cancer, passed peacefully at his home in St. Paul, Minnesota on Tuesday, June 18.  Jim was our friend and ally, a husband and father, a lawyer, a world traveler, and adoptee rights and adoption reform soldier. An honorary Bastard God...Jim was our friend. He always had time to talk to people . He opened his home and his heart to his extended adoption-related family and to us.  He believed in us. His friendship, support, and work gives the lie to the "evil adopter" trope that a certain band of online adopted people carry. He loved us and we loved him. Hopefully, we are all a little smarter and even nicer because of Jim.

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]]> http://bastards.org/james-hamilton-rest-in-peace/feed/ 2 13496 Minnesota: OBCs Open on July 1. Join the Run-up Events! http://bastards.org/13489-2/ http://bastards.org/13489-2/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:34:50 +0000 https://bastards.org/?p=13489 July 1 is just around the corner --and Minnesota adoptees will be able to obtain their Original Birth Certificates.  No exceptions. No conditions. This has been a long time coming . The law that kept OBCs  sealed was the most complicated convoluted secret and sealed records system in the US. Minnesota-based Greg Luce, founder and director of the Adoptee Rights Law Center and the Minnesota Coalition for Adoptee Rights navigated the 2023 campaign that cracked the vault. Two events are scheduled to explain, educate, and celebrate the new law.

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]]> http://bastards.org/13489-2/feed/ 2 13489 July 1, 2023: 2 New States Join the Bastard States of America! http://bastards.org/july-1-2023-2-new-states-join-the-bastard-states-of-america/ http://bastards.org/july-1-2023-2-new-states-join-the-bastard-states-of-america/#comments Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:39:12 +0000 http://bastards.org/?p=12954 On July 1, 2023, Vermont and South Dakota became the latest states to unseal without condition or restriction, the Original Birth Certificates of their state-born adoptees. And there's more to come! 

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]]> http://bastards.org/july-1-2023-2-new-states-join-the-bastard-states-of-america/feed/ 3 12954 Minnesota Becomes 15th State to Acknowledge Adoptee Birth Record Equality http://bastards.org/minnesota-becomes-15th-state-to-acknowledge-adoptee-birth-record-equality/ http://bastards.org/minnesota-becomes-15th-state-to-acknowledge-adoptee-birth-record-equality/#comments Fri, 26 May 2023 02:38:56 +0000 http://bastards.org/?p=12866 Minnesota's long history of sealed records and complicated, confusing, convoluted "rules," including an incomprehensible intermediary system that made it nearly impossible for adoptees to obtain their Original Birth Certificates, ended Wednesday when Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz signed  SF2995 an omnibus health bill that contained OBC access provisions. Those provisions came from the earlier stand-alone SF279 stuck in the Senate Health and Human Services Committee for carryover to the next session. The Minnesota Coalition for Adoption Reform (MCAR)  and the Adoptee Rights Law Center directed by Minneapolis attorney Gregory Luce, negotiated with legislative leaders to get the provisions added and onto the floor of both Houses which passed the bill on May 22, 2023, the last day of the session. (Senate: 34-32; House 69-64) 

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]]> http://bastards.org/minnesota-becomes-15th-state-to-acknowledge-adoptee-birth-record-equality/feed/ 4 12866 Minnesota SF1279 Moves Along! http://bastards.org/minnesota-sf1279-moves-along/ http://bastards.org/minnesota-sf1279-moves-along/#comments Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:39:53 +0000 http://bastards.org/?p=12700 Yesterday Minnesota SF1279 was voted favorable out of the Senate Judiciary and Public Health Committee. We thought the bill would be held over until 2024, but due to the vagaries of legislation, it was suddently put on the agenda. Bastards are on a roll!

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]]> http://bastards.org/minnesota-sf1279-moves-along/feed/ 10 12700 Minnesota: Attention OBC activists! Help needed! http://bastards.org/minnesota-attention-obc-activists/ http://bastards.org/minnesota-attention-obc-activists/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2014 21:28:24 +0000 http://www.bastards.org/?p=5046 Any Minnesotans interested in working on records legislation this session, please contact Jim Hamilton a note.  He informs us there are  three committees to focus on: House Health and Human Services Policy, House Civil Law, ...

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