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Jacobin. McConnell, Carolyn. “Safe Haven” Laws Are Key to the Right’s Push to End Women’s Right to Abortion, May 7, 2022
The New Yorker. Talbot, Margaret. Amy Coney Barrett’s Long Game, February 14, 2022
Chronicle of Social Change. New York Set Adoptees’ Birth Certificates Free Last Week, Advocates See Path for Other States, November 19, 2019
Associated Press, “Adoptees bid for access to birth certificates stirs debate” by David Crary. July 8, 2017
USA TODAY: “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 Oregon court.” By Patrick McMahon: June 25, 1999
The Washington Times: “Adoptees gaining birth records as mothers fret about privacy” by Cheryl Wetzstein: May 23, 1999
The Washington Times 11/98 (M58)
The Washington Times 11/98 (Nat. Reg.)
NetGuide: April 13, 1999
San Francisco Examiner: Fight over adoption secrecy: Adoptees’ drive for right to identify birth parents can conflict with elders’ need for privacy” by Examiner Editorial writer, February 22, 1999
Letters to the Editor: 2/24/99;
More Letters to the Editor: 3/1/99
More Letters to the Editor: 3/10/99
Newsweek: “Haunted by a Painful History: In Oregon, adoptees and birthmothers square off in a battle over secrecy” by Lynette Clemetson: February 22, 1999
Letters: March 15, 1999
Time: “Tracking Down Mom: Should adopted children have the right to uncover their birthparents? More states are trying to open records”, by John Cloud: February 22, 1999
Letters: March 15, 1999
The Los Angeles Times: “Open-Adoption Initiative Is Facing Voters in Oregon”, by Kim Murphy, November 3, 1998
GEORGE Magazine: “Ballot Initiatives” November 1998
The Boston Globe: “Oregon voters could open door to adoptees’ past” by Adam Pertman October 2, 1998
POZ: “I Want my Mommy” Bastard Nation and TIES (Terminal Illness Emergenecy Search): January, 1998
Newspaper & Magazine Press Archives
The New York Times: “Where Adoption Is Suddenly an Open Book” by Jim Robbins, May 17, 2001
Rolling Stone: “The Bastard Chronicles” By Randall Sullivan, January 15, 2001
Associated Press: “Adoptees Battle Secrecy of Records” By David Crary, November 11, 2000
Seventeen Magazine: ” Are you my mother? Adopted teens search for their families, their histories and their identities.” by Gayle Forman, November 2000
USA Today: “Adoptees’ rights group gets support in Washington” By Patrick McMahon, September 11, 2000
Weekly Standard: “The Rise of ‘Bastard Nation’ And the threat to Adoption”, By Ira Carnahan, September 11, 2000
Offspring Magazine: “This Woman Wants you to Call her a Bastard”, by Jonathan Eig: June/July 2000; Letter to Editor from BN ExecCom: Sep/Oct 2000
Chicago Tribune: “Opening Adoption Files Worries Birth Parents, Some Say their Privacy Outsptrips Kids’ Interests”, by Vincent J. Schodolski: April 16, 2000
Boston Globe: “Politicians push for legalized baby abandonment at safe sites” by Adam Pertman: March 10, 2000
Jewish World Review: “Constitution: A way to save unwanted newborns” by Mona Charen, nationally syndicated columnist: February 24, 2000
Glamour Magazine: “The Great Debate: Do adopted children have the right to know about their birth parents?”, By Jessica Branch: July 1999
MSNBC Cinemania: “No more Secrets & Lies” By Kris Kaiyala, March 17, 1997
Newsweek: “Family Secrets: From hidden adoptions to hushed-up romances, that which you don’t know still has the power to hurt you.” by David Gelman and Debra Rosenberg, February 24, 1997
Self Magazine: “Mother and Child Reunions: The Internet is helping to link up adults who have lost someone through adoption” by Elizabeth Kadetsky, December, 1996
Local Press
AL:
Montgomery Advertiser – 1/24/00
CA:
San Diego Union Tribune – 9/1/99
Contra Costa Times – 4/25/99
San Jose Mercury News – 12/6/98
New Times: 3/27/97
L.A. Daily News: 3/25/97
La Opinion: 3/25/97
The Cambrian: 3/20/97
SF Bay Guardian: 3/19/97
San Jose Mercury News: 3/10/97
Daily Californian (UC-Berkeley paper): 2/ 3/97
Oakland Tribune: 2/3/97
CT:
The New Haven Advocate – 11/ 26/98
Milford Mirror, 3/20/18
Washington DC:
Washington CityPaper – 5/21/99
DE:
Mary-Lee Lutz on the UAA4/26/98
GA:
Macon Telegraph 12/4/98
KS:
Coffeyville Journal 6/18/99
MN:
Pioneer Press – 7/20/98
NH:
Foster’s Daily Democrat: 11/28/99
NJ:
Ashbury Park Press: 2/3/97
Bergen Record: February 3, 1997
NY:
Newsday– 1/30/99
The Daily Mail– 12/3/98
Adoptee Advocates Fighting for Birth Certificates, Spectrum News, Albany, May 2, 2019
Montgomery and Adoptee Advocates Push for Vote on Adoptee Rights Bill, King County Politics, Brooklyn, May 2, 2019
News York adoptees say access to birth certificates is a right, WXXI-TV, Rochester, May 1, 2019
Weprin and Adoptee Activists Push for Vote om Adoptee Rights Bill, Queens Gazette, May 15, 2019
NY Senate passes historic bill for adoptee rights, Hudson Valley News, June 4, 2019
OK:
The Tulsa World – 2/4/01
The Edmond Sun – 4/25/00
The Edmond Sun– 3/14/99
The Tulsa World – 12/4/98
OH:
The Beacon Journal – 11/4/2000
The Canton Repository – 10/31/2000
The Oakland Press – 3/29/00
The Columbus Dispatch – 10/4/98
Columbus Alive wireD – 9/30/97
Columbus Dispatch (OH): 3/7/97
OR:
The Oregonian – 12/10/99
The Willamette Weekly – 10/13/99
The Willamette Weekly – 9/22/99
The Oregonian – 12/6/98
The Willamette Weekly – 8/26/98
The Willamette Weekly – 7/22/98
Flux Magazine University of OR School of Journalism: Spring 1997
PA:
Philadelphia City Paper 1/27/00
Philadelphia City Paper 4/22/99
Philadelphia City Paper 12/10/98
The Philadelphia City Paper – 9/25/98
The Philadelphia Enquirer 8/27/98
TX:Daily Texan University of TX: 4/29/97
Seattle Times 4/3
Seattle Times 9/1/00
South County Journal 6/28/99
Updated May 16, 2022
