Oklahoma clean bill HB 2634 passed the House yesterday with a 93-0 Vote. It now goes to the Senate. For more information go to the Oklahoma Open blog and Facebook. Thanks to all those Oklahomans who contacted House members! And …
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The United States According to Bastard Nation
The BASTARDIZED states of Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, aVermon, nd Virginia are the only U.S. states where adult adoptees have unrestricted access to their own original birth records.
Continue readingWashington SUB 2211: Still dead. What happens next year?
It’s official. As we reported SaturdayWashington SUB HB 2211 is dead for this session. Although it’s still in the hopper, perennial bill killer, and bastard baiter Sen. Jim Hargrove, told 2211’s sponsor Rep. Tina Orwall that …
Continue readingWashington SUB HB 2211: The testimony Bastard Nation would have submitted
TESTIMONY SUB HB 2211: Adoptee access to their own original birth certificates Washington Senate Human Services and Corrections Committee xxxx, 2012 OPPOSE Privilege is the opposite of rights Our Washington representative may not be able …
Continue readingMother and Child Reunion
This letter appears on pp 21-22 of the Sept/Oct 2000 Offspring: MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION We found it a matter of great regret that your article featuring our organization, Bastard Nation, and Marley Greiner, its …
Continue readingConstitution: A Way to Save Unwanted Newborns
Mona Charen Mona Charen – Special Wednesday * February 23 Our prosperous, lively, comfortable nation is facing a sudden upsurge in a pmblem as ancient as leprosy — baby abandonment and murder. Tales of high-school …
Continue readingGroups seek to unite adoptees, birth parents
Monday, June 28, 1999Adoption Search Fair provides assistance to adopted children By Doug Margeson Journal Reporter BELLEVUE — Julie Dennis set up a table in Factoria Mall yesterday, offering information to adopted children who wanted …
Continue readingReunited mother and daughter enjoying their time together
By LORI MARTIN Staff Writer Together again. it’s a refrain Susan Thompson and her daughter, Betsy, are singing these days. Ever since they reunited July 10, after being separated for 32 years. The last time …
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Adoptees demand right to past Activists fight for access to their birth records, but mothers say they were promised anonymity. Now, two sides take battle to Ore. court. By Patrick McMahon USA TODAY MANZANITA, Ore. …
Continue readingIllegitimate Complaints
Washington CityPaper Washington’s Free Weekly Vol. 19, No. 20 May 21-27, 1999 Illegitimate Complaints Veterans of a D.C. home for unwed pregnant women demonstrate for open adoption records. By Susan Gervasi In 1966, after two …
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