Sara’s Bastards: Feigenholtz Continues to Lie about her "law"

The Ungrateful Bastard received no apology, even though the email was widely distributed.

Listen to Sara:

I am always a true believer in restoring rights to people, and I feel that the sealing of adoption records was a very barbaric thing to do.

Yet, this is exactly what Sara the Barbarian and her HB 5428 do: allows the state to seal records via disclosure vetoes.

Listen to Sara:

21 birth parents have exercised the option of anonymity, according to Feigenholtz, who doesn’t anticipate a dramatic spike in that number.

Calling Private Ryan! Calling Private Ryan! 21 people whom she declares have a human right to their own obc don’t thanks to her. Not even a condolence.

Listen to Sara:

Illinois is the 10th and largest state in the nation to enact such a law, according to Feigenholtz.

Only six states, Kansas, Alaska, Oregon, Alabama, New Hampshire, and Maine recognize the right, without restriction, of all their adoptees to their own birth records. Deformers such as Feigenholtz float Tennessese (as I wrote the other day) and Delaware as open states although obcs are sealed with disclosure vetoes. Tennessee also has a contact veto criminalizing bastards who contact first family members without parental permission. Feigenholtz, who can’t tell the difference between an “open” and closed” records state, is hardly an expert witnesses–or pusher- for records access.

Listen to Sara:

If the “eyes” of the country want to see how legislation pans out, they have only to look to the six states that are open, not to Illinois and its fake bill and incompetent sponsor.

Sara Feigenholtz and her underboss Melilsha Mitchell have never heard of the concept of Simplicity of Language. Oregon’s ballot initiative read:

Successful bills in other states are only a few pages long. The Feigenholtz/Mitchell 80 page bloviation isn’t a bill to be read, much less be enacted.

For 15 years or more Sara Feigenholtz has crawled over the backs of bastards in the trenches who have spent their lives and treasure restoring our rights. Feigenholtz has used adoptee rights superficially to aggrandize herself and help build her so-called prog political career, while those in the movement have denounced her and her bills repeatedly. Outside of Melisha Mitchell, who makes money off of adoption secrecy, no one involved seriously in adoptee rights or adoption reform will go near her. The media is forced, then, to find outsider innocents unaware of the history of the fight for adoptee rights in Illinois, the bill’s contentiousness, or Sara’s mendacity to stand with her. (Look out liberal LGBT and feminist base!)

There is nothing progressive about Sarah Feigenholtz. Or even remotely liberal. She has no ideology but power. She’s old-style Chicago politics. Feigenholtz has ignored, rejected, and betrayed adopted people in Illinois and throughout the country with her disregard for the people she claims she represents. She couldn’t even be bothered to respond to emails she solicited for records access input a few years ago, except to hit up the writers for money when she ran for Rahm Emmanuel’s’ seat in Congress–and lost.

HB 5428 is a slap in the face of every bastard, every parent , every sister and brother and friend, every legislator who believes our rights are sacrosanct and not to be compromised. HB 5428 is especially a spit in the face of legislators who shepherded good bills through, and with heavy heart, killed bad bills out of respect and solildarity for the movement and their personal belief that no one should be left behind. Sara Feigenholtz is no Bastard Goddess.

Corrosion. Corruption. Decay

Rust never sleeps.

And neither do bastards. Sara, you are obsolete. Your rust, corrosion, corruption, and decay have eaten you.

Addenda: Go to Bastard Granny Annie for Don’t Copy Illinois