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Bastard Nation Action Alert: Utah HB129 Clean OBC Bill, House Vote on February 4, 2025

Marley Greiner — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:07:09 +0000

Tomorrow is the big day in Utah! (February 4, 2025)

The House floor will vote on HB 129, a bill to restore the right of all Utah-born adoptees to obtain their Original Birth Certificates and other material without restrictions of conditions. Yes, you read that right: UTAH! The bill passed the House Judiciary Commitee 9-1-1.

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Utah continues to deform

Marley Greiner — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 19:52:07 +0000

This week Utah Governor Gary R. Herbert signed two bills that continue to abrogate the rights of Utah--born adoptees.

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Utah HB345: Bastard Nation Asks Gov. Herbert to Veto/ Action Alert

Marley Greiner — Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:14:59 +0000

Not only were adoptees and their rights trivialized, but their hope of equal treatment under law, due process, and right to “personal records” (words from the bill) were played with. HB345 is no only bad politics, but cruel politics. Due to HB 345, real people, with real faces, real names, real families, real records, and real hopes were hung out to dry apparently to get “something passed” at the end of the session that legislators didn’t even care enough about to discuss in public. The outcome of HB345 suggests that the purpose of records access is personal reunion rather than political rights. The result will be the increased use of “outing” mechanisms such as social media and online DNA tests, which often involve public exposure of the names and other private information of adoptee and birthparents, rather than the quiet release of a state-held document to adoptees.

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Bastard Nation Action Alert: Utah H345 restricted bill goes to Senate. Kill it now!

Marley Greiner — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 01:36:15 +0000

Please drop a line to Utah Senators and ask them to oppose HB 345. .There is no state interest in 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 adults. Those who claim a statutory right to parental anonymity through sealed records, as found in HB 345, promote statutory privilege and state favoritism. This is not a bill adoptees want or need. Only unrestricted, unconditional OBC access is acceptable.

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