Virginia Archives | Bastard Nation https://bastards.org/tag/virginia/ The Adoptee Rights Organization Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:57:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://bastards.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/8/files/2015/12/cropped-bASTARD-BOUTIQUE-32x32.jpg Virginia Archives | Bastard Nation https://bastards.org/tag/virginia/ 32 32 158542501 Virginia HB301: Bastard National Letter of Support to Senate Rehab and Social Services Committee http://bastards.org/15161-2/ http://bastards.org/15161-2/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:55:40 +0000 https://bastards.org/?p=15161 There is no state interest in keeping original birth certificates sealed from adult adoptees to whom they pertain nor does the state have a right or duty to mediate and oversee the personal relationships of adults. The debate on the release of OBCs to its adopted citizens is small v large government issue. Small government should win this one.

Adopted people in 16 states have unrestricted access to their OBCs, including all of New England and 3 deep South conservative states (Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia). Not a single negative report about unsealing has been published. OBC access, through the efforts of policy and lawmakers is being normalized. Adoptees are beginning to be treated just like the Not Adopted.

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]]> http://bastards.org/15161-2/feed/ 0 15161 Virginia: Bastard Nation Letter of Support to the House HHS Committee for HB 2093. Clean OBC bill http://bastards.org/virginia-bastard-nation-letter-of-support-to-the-house-hhs-committee-for-hb-2093-clean-obc-bill/ http://bastards.org/virginia-bastard-nation-letter-of-support-to-the-house-hhs-committee-for-hb-2093-clean-obc-bill/#respond Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:52:14 +0000 https://bastards.org/?p=13717 Current Virginia law severely limits adopted people from obtaining their OBCs and other adoption information. Adoptees must petition a court for release of the information for “good cause” or a state agency can release it, again for “good cause.” “Good cause,” however, is not defined by law and is left up to individual interpretation. Both processes are humiliating, time-consuming, infantilizing, and rarely successful. They can also be expensive. The Not Adopted, of course, do not have to stand bureaucratic scrutiny to receive their birth certificates

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]]> http://bastards.org/virginia-bastard-nation-letter-of-support-to-the-house-hhs-committee-for-hb-2093-clean-obc-bill/feed/ 0 13717 Capitol Coalition for Adoptee Rights Formed http://bastards.org/capitol-coalition-for-adoptee-rights-formed-working-to-secure-equal-rights-for-all-adult-adopted-people-who-were-born-or-adopted-in-the-region/ http://bastards.org/capitol-coalition-for-adoptee-rights-formed-working-to-secure-equal-rights-for-all-adult-adopted-people-who-were-born-or-adopted-in-the-region/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2020 01:34:20 +0000 http://bastards.org/?p=7536 We are happy to announce the formation of the Capitol Coalition for Adoptee Rights a coalition of organizations and allies in the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland, working to secure equal rights for all adult adopted people who were born or adopted in the region.

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