Category Archives: Adoption legislation

Bastard Nation Letter to PEI Assembly: Reject Bill No, 29

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Bill No. 29 clearly holds PEI’s adopted citizens to a greater set of birth record access requirements than the not-adopted who can access their record for the asking, Disclosure and contact vetoes, fines and jails cells all go against best practice adoption standards. These provisions are not only insulting to PEI’s adoptees but are cruel and ugly. They pathologize adoptees and adoption as a social institution. They make adoption and adoptees shameful and suggest to the public that we are dangerous. Continue Reading →

Action Alert URGENT! Prince Edward Island Bill 29. Contains veto and criminalizes contact. Vote No!

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In the name of “adoption reform, the Prince Edward Assembly is attempting to sneak a bill through that will continue to abrogate the right of the province’s adoptees to access their Original Birth Certificate, without restriction or conditions. Assembly Bill No. 29 was introduced and received the first reading on November 20 and received a second reading the following day. A final vote can take place as early as this coming Tuesday, November 26. Continue Reading →

Prince Edward Island: New bill contains vetoes and criminalizes contact

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If you think your state or province is bad, try this on for size.  The bill contains the following provisions:

*disclosure veto
*criminally enforceable contact veto with a threat of a $5,000 fine and 1-year jail term
*prohibits adoptees from “publishing any identifying information about the person who provided the content preference.” Continue Reading →

New York S3419: Action Alert and my Personal Email to Gov Cuomo

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It’s been almost four months since passage of S3419, New York’s historic equal rights legislation. Yet one critical step remains: making sure Governor Andrew Cuomo signs S3419 into law. While the bill is not yet on his desk, we have continued to let him know how important this bill is for all of us. That’s where you also come in, likely again. Continue Reading →

STAR? Which Side Are You On?

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Bastard Nation called you out on April 19. Here it is April 26, and you still haven’t indicated if you will join the real adoptee rights movement or continue to compromise the rights of Texas Class Bastard to their own Original Birth Certificates. All we get is prevarication and vague pronouncements. Continue Reading →

Texas: Twinkle Twinkle Little STAR

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STAR has gone dark. Its leaders have been contacted privately and asked publicly where they stand on HB2725.  They have refused to respond. No Facebook, no Twitter, no web page updates. We hope STAR’s members and social media followers get their news elsewhere; otherwise, they are still wondering what happened. Continue Reading →

Gladney’s Adoptive Parents Bill of Rights: What does it mean for adoptee rights?

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This brings up a couple of questions:Is Gladney saying, with the save-face caveat (or warning?) that disclosure “may” be dependent on state laws–which of course, Gladney can influence in Texas and perhaps in other states?While making adoptive parents the domestic gatekeeper, is Gladney saying that it is OK for adoptees (usually) 18 and over to get access to the OBC, court records, and other recordsIs Gladney back-door endorsing the QuadA endorsement of record access?Then there is this weird statement: Continue Reading →

Blossoms Awards 2019: Gladney awards itelf for its good work

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Now, we know that the adoption industry is shrinking, making the circle jerk tighter.  Nonetheless, we were surprised to read that all the awards went either to Gladney itself or close fellow travelers. (OK. One is actually set aside for a Gladney volunteer) . Continue Reading →

West Virginia SB300 restrictive OBC access: Bastardette’s personal letter to Senate Judiciary–please vote NO!

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SB300 is currently in the West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee. This is a restrictive OBC access bill that mandates adoptee educational requirements to receive their OBC. It also contains redaction language that authorizes the state, upon request of a birthparent, to black-out their identifying information, before it is released to the adoptee. Continue Reading →

llinois: Bastard Nation Testimony in support of HJR24–Adoptee Citizenship

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Unfortunately, many adoptive parents did not check citizenship status at the time of adoption or follow through on the citizenship process. Some say they were unaware of naturalization requirements and believed citizenship was automatic upon adoption finalization. Some claim to have been misled by their adoption agencies, courts, lawyers, or federal immigration authorities. Some believed that it was up to the adoptee, at the age of majority, to choose their citizenship status. In some cases, adoptive parents disrupted the adoption, and either “rehomed” the children they brought to the US or turned them over to the state foster care system where they lingered with no legal closure or permanent citizenship status. Continue Reading →