Category Archives: Adoption

Adoption and Abortion: “Heartbeat” bills are an adoption pipeline. Forced birthers undermine and exploit adoptees and our rights

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 Adoption is the through-line in any forced-birth/ “Heartbeat” Bill discussion, on the legislative floor or online where verbal brawls between anti-aborts and adopted people are common with anti-aborts telling adoptees to STFU if they support abortion rights and reproductive justice. (Twenty years ago Pat Robertson told his 700 Club audience that the adoptee rights movement was a shill for abortion rights.) And woe to the adoptee who declares she’d prefer to have been aborted. Adoptees are God’s gifts until we aren’t. (See @@LilaGraceRose on Twitter if you can stomach it.) 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 →

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 →

Karma Bites Back: Keith Ablow and his problem with adoptees and women

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Ablow, like most narcissists, trolls individuals and even whole classes he perceives as vulnerable–in the cases above,  women, queers, and adoptees and their families.  He worships the hyper-masculine and feminizes, in a class sense, those who don’t measure up to the man in the mirror, or should I say the man he thinks he sees in the mirror. Continue Reading →

Frank Pavone: Adoptees are not your agitprop

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Now, when I was doing oppositional research at clinics on a regular basis, I saw a lot of this. Often the sign-holder was a toddler or a little older, (presumably an adoptive acquisition) telling us, “my mommy didn’t kill me”  or demanding “don’t kill the babies”  or preaching  “abortion kills children.”  They were accompanied by the usual adult wannabe pleader advertising their desire to adopt a stranger’s fetus. 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 →

New York Ball of Confusion: Setting things straight

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As you can see, it’s only the beginning of February, and already there are plenty of screwy bills up and running to screw over adoptees. New York A2691/S2492  (aka the  Benedetto bill after House sponsor Michael Benedetto) is by far the screwiest. It mandates unrestricted certified OBC access all right, –but there’s a catch.  The OBC would contain the “circumstances of the adoption,” which translated means (according to the bill’s pimps) that the name(s) of your adoptive parent(s) and the date of your adoption would appear on your ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE. This fake OBC would include the disclaimer that it could not be used for identification purposes. So, you’ll get a special second fake “Amended Birth Certificate”  to add to your original fake Amended Birth Certificate instead of your genuine OBC, adding one more link to the chain of abuse.  This scheme, which we are all supposed to be grateful for (again!)  not only defaces the OBC, but de-centers adoptees by giving adoptive parents a documentary role in our birth, and upends one of th core principle of the adoptee rights movement–access to a clean, unaltered OBC. Continue Reading →