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 the attend the hearing so we are submitting this testimony/letter via email. Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization is the largest adoptee civil rights organization in the United States. We support full, unrestricted access for all adopted persons, to their original birth certificates. (OBC). Bastard Nation’s roots are in Washington State, and we would like nothing more than to support SUB HB 2211. Unfortunately we cannot. The sticking point is SUB HB 2211’s “affidavit of non-disclosure,” otherwise known as a Disclosure Veto. This veto creates a special third party privilege for birth parents that no one, parent or otherwise, possesses:  to bypass state law and to personally bar the state from releasing another person’s birth certificate to the person to whom it pertains. This onerous and discriminatory veto privilege, already in place for Washington adoptions finalized on and after October 1 1993, is extended in SUB HB 2211 to cover adoptions finalized before October 1, 1993;. The bill expands the pool of adoptees unable to Continue Reading →

Get this straight. Washington HB 2211/Sub HB 2211 is not an adoptee rights bill.  It does not restore the right of Washington State’s Class Bastard to their original birth certificates. HB 2211/Sub HB 2211 expands the already-in-place October 1, 1993 disclosure veto backward to include all adoptions. HB 2211/Sub HB 2211 creates a new and unique tiered DV system that not only retains the current segregation of the adopted from the non-adopted, but creates two tiers of black-holed adoptees segregated from the non-vetoed adopted and from each other.This miscreation of the bureaucratic mind  is supported by naive deformers who believe that something is better than nothing, even as they claim to abhor the something. Tina Orwall THE STORYEarlier this session WA-Care  (and on Facebook) the latest iteration  Washington’s Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight, got  a bill,  HB 2211 introduced, that would  open  the original birth certificates of the state’s adoptees, except when it didn’t.  Promoted as an “adoptee rights bill” the proposal, sponsored by adoptee Rep. Tina Orwall, (D-DesMoines) would not only keep the current October 1, 1993 disclosure veto in place, but extend it backwards to blackhole  those adopted anytime in the past; thus, expanding the pool of those whose Continue Reading →

I’ve got a lot to say about what’s going on in Washington State. Unfortunately, I’m very backed up tonight, with among other things-updating Bastard Nation’s opposition testimony. In the meantime, though, please go over here and leave your opinion about some grossly inaccurate information spreading the bill. To make a long story short (which I’ll be making long, of course, in my blog) HB 2211 passed the House on Saturday.  The bill, which already expanded the Disclosure Veto, now has been amended to create a tiered system of DVs. One set of timeframe rules for one group of adoptees; a second set for another group.  Just how legalistic and lunatic can these guys get? Now, HB 2211 is being compared to Oregon’s clean law with no vetoes, no restrictions, no conditions. Please go over here and let your opinion be heard.  HB22211 is anti-adoptee and anti-adoptee rights.