Category: Action Alert

Bastard Nation has joined The Adoptee Rights Law Center call for adoptees and allies from across the country to stop the Arizona legislature from destroying the OBC rights of the majority of the state’s adopted class.

The proposed law black-holes all Arizona adoptees born between 1968-2021 from obtaining their original birth certificates without a court order.

Senator Quezada asked if the bill was Constitutionally sound because of its tiered access/doughnut hole/black hole specification that would keep the OBCs of adoptees born in Arizona between 1968-January 1, 2022 sealed. The Senate Rules Counsel assured him that tiered access is about maintaining an “expectation of privacy” in adoption whether or not there was any “official” expectation, and that OBC access is a matter of “policy” not a Constitutional issue.  Policy? Seriously?  Equal protection is a policy issue, devoid of Constitutional merit?

This horrible bill, at the last moment, has been pulled from the jaws of death and is scheduled to be heard before the Senate Rules Committee on Monday, May 24, 2021.  It will most likely pass and be sent to the Senate Floor. It has already passed the House. Help us stop passage!