Take that, Judie Brown! I believe I have discovered a second secret message subliminally broadcast by Krispy Kreme in its insidious attempt to undermine American values through abortion doughnuts. 0 grams. Clearly a code word for orgasms. As an American, I object!
Thursday, Judie Brown, founder of the American Life League, launched herself boldly where no woman has gone before. Krispy Kreme Celebrates Obama With Pro-Abortion Doughnuts. While we pause for a moment to scratch our heads and ruminate over that headline, I’ll remind readers that in the 1990s, the American Life League attempted to block the implementation of Tennessee’s semi records access law by signing on as an amicus in Doe v Sunquist. Adoptees scare her. Every time an adoptee gets her obc, a woman has an abortion. Most recently ALL made an appearance in the Daily Bastardette when Mrs. Brown evinced disgust disguised as moral confusion over Pope Benedict’s Dignitas personae in which her leader called for a halt to the creation of human embryos and hence embryo adoption. Earlier, Bastardette reported on Mrs. Brown’s angst over a study that indicated that birth control pills encourage women to have sex with men they are compatible with, rather than with men they don’t particularly find attractive or interesting, but whose love juice would strengthen the gene pool. Now. Back to the present and Mrs. Brown’s Krispy Kreme conundrum. According to Mrs. Brown: The next time you stare down a conveyor belt Continue Reading →
Yay! The University of Michigan Press has just released the 3rd ed. of Betty Jean Lifton’s classic Lost and Found: the Adoption Experience, the book that launched the contemporary adoptee rights movement. From the UMP webpage: The first edition of Betty Jean Lifton’s Lost and Found advanced the adoption rights movement in this country in 1979, challenging many states’ policies of maintaining closed birth records… This expanded and updated edition, with new material on the controversies concerning adoption, artificial insemination, and newer reproductive technologies, continues to add to the discussion on this important topic. A new preface and afterword by the author have been added, as well as a greatly expanded resources section that in addition to relevant organizations now lists useful Web sites. The UMP site also includes a long list of online adoption resources–including Bastard Nation. Congratulations BJ! Here is BJ’s webpage.
Does this creep you out as much as it does me: Embracing the Birthmother: a day run by birthmothers for birthmothers to talk with each other, share stories, healing and empowerment. It’s being thrown by A Full Circle Adoptions in Mt. Holyoake, Massachusetts. I don’t know anything about this doo or the agency other than what’s found on the linked page. But the language…Mama Mia! Let’s see how many ways we can depersonalize, dehumanize, patronize, paternalize, infantilize and deminunize women in the name of empowerment and do-goodism. How long for the days when the adoption industry just said don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out instead self-serving “post-adoption services.” I have this squicky image of “birth mother” attachment therapy. Grown women entangled in the arms of social workers; wrapped up in a flannel blanket and sat on by overweight female therapists imported from Colorado. Colorado Attachment Disorder sitters Connell Watkins and Julie Ponder
Here are the lyrics to two songs reportedly played to teenage girls in L-d-S youth groups. Obviously the church expects girls to go bad and is pre-empting the expected fruit of the womb crisis. The first song, From God’s Arms to My Arms… is just plain traditionally bad. You know, like the bad adoption poetry on adoption.com (Actually, it appears there.) The song makes Butterfly Kisses sound like Mozart’s Requiem. From God’s Arms To My Arms To YoursWords and music by Michael McLean With so many wrong decisions in my past, I’m not quite sureIf I can ever hope to trust my judgment anymore.But lately I’ve been thinking, ’cause it’s all I’ve had to do.And in my heart I feel that I should give this child to you. (Chorus:)And maybe you can tell your baby,When you love him so, that he’s been loved before;By someone who delivered your sonFrom God’s arms, to my arms, to yours. If you choose to tell him, and if he wants to know,How the one who gave him life could bear to let him go;Just tell him there were sleepless nights; I prayed and paced the floorsAnd knew the only peace I’d find is if Continue Reading →
I’m working on a couple things, but in the meantime, here’s some new blog entries from our partners in crime you might find interesting: Musings of the Lame. Claud is back Yes, that’s right! Our beloved Claud has returned to the keyboard after a way too-long hiatus. Bonus: we can now watch at our leisure Montel’s how can-I-get-me-a-baybee meltdown moment with Claud. It’s right up there with the adoptaTV classics, The Dr. Laura Love Fest with Ron Morgan, Troy Dunn and Bill Pierce and the Brian Willilams Show with Joe Soll driving Bill Pierce off the set of a live broadcast. “Tell the truth, Bill! Tell the truth!” Unfortunately, the latter two are no longer on line, though I have hard copy transcript of the Bill’s humiliation. Mia’s Saving Grace. Christopher Durang wrote a neat little one act, The Actor’s Nightmare. Mia has posted her own special adoptee nightmare, simply called, Nightmare.” It starts: The ancient office chair I am sitting on is hard and uncomfortable. I keep switching positions uncomfortably. The woman sitting behind the desk has a stoic and drawn look to her face. She is frowning intently and her eyes seem to be boring holes so deep Continue Reading →
Here is a collection of recent news articles in chronological order on the restoration of adoptee rights on Maine. I’m not making many comments on them, just putting them up here as a source of information. I’ll add more if they show up later. Once again! Congratulations Maine! Kennebec Journal, December 28, 2008Adoptees await more informationAbout three-quarters of the House supported the bill, and two-thirds of the Senate, according to Bobbi Beavers of South Berwick. A co-founder of Original Birth Certificates for Maine, Beavers called the legislation “a human rights bill.” “No one should ever be denied their original identity,” said Beavers. Cathy Robishaw of Falmouth, another group co-founder and an adoptee herself, said a friend helped her find her birth mother’s name in the mid-1990s. But getting her original birth certificate Friday will be a “huge deal,” and not just because she pushed for the law for four years. “I will just feel like everyone else at that point,” she explained. “It will just mean I’m not discriminated against, I’m treated like an adult.” Belfast Village Soup, December 29, 2008Adoptees may obtain their original birth certificatesThe first two adoptees receiving their original birth certificates will be Catherine Robishaw, co-founder Continue Reading →
Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization congratulates Maine adoptees on the restoration of their right to records and identity. Continue Reading →
NO! CHILDREN OF THE CORN ISN’T GOING AWAY! From the same folks who last fall brought us at least 50 abandoned and traumatized teens and pre-teens via their “unique safe haven law” comes the news that the majority of Nebraska senators responding to a pre-session poll by the Associated Press, would support a measure to ban abortion in the state. Most support an exception for rape, incest, or the health of the woman, but four reject all exceptions. According to an article in the December 31 Beatrice Daily Sun: 23 Nebraska state senators [out of the 40 who responded] said they would back such a ban. That’s despite the precedence of Roe vs. Wade, the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s right to have an abortion. The full AP survey has not been released. According to a commenter named “Eric” on Kyle Michaelis’ New Nebraska Network blog The Coat Hanger Caucus: Almost 1/2 of senators support abortion ban (December 30) Senators Adams, Carlson, Coash, Cornett, Flood, Fulton, Gay, Gloor, Hadley, Hansen, Harms, Heidemann, Janssen, Karpisek, Langemeier, McCoy, Nelson, Pankonin, Pirsch, Schilz, Stuthman, Utter, and Wightman indicated they would support a ban on abortion. “Eric” speculates from Continue Reading →
For Bastardette’s special New Year message scroll below this entry. ****** It’s 12:01 AM and obcs are officially open in Maine! Happy New Year! It’s been a long wait from June 25, 2007 when LD 1084 was signed into law to today when the restoration of our rights in Maine went into effect officially. Bastard Nation salutes Mainers and sends many happy returns of the day. Of course, no celebration is complete without a Grinch, even if it’s not Christmas. The Grinch in Maine comes in the lumbering form of the Portland Press Herald editorial board. On the prowl for something to spoilsport at the end of the holiday season, the paper pounced on the dead issue of records and identity rights for the state’s adopted class. Adoption records should be accessed with caution/People seeking information about themselves should also respect the privacy of others. The editorial warns of the dire consequences snoopy adopted folks pose to the stability of Maine’s apparent fragile family infrastructure which will collapse without the studied discretion and good manners of the newly-loosed adopted class on closet-cringing parents. Boo! Here’s what the paper says about the imminent danger: Birth parents, who were promised anonymity when Continue Reading →