ETHICS CONFERENCE: BASTARDETTE LEAVES NO ONE BEHIND AND SMASHES THE TRIAD IN THE PROCESS
As one of the “official bloggers” at the Ethics and Accountability conference in Arlington, VA today and tomorrow, I need to send dispatches to the adoption-deficient. I’m really tired and will post more tomorrow probably, but what better, or easier thing to blog about than…Bastardette herself! Below is my 10 minute presentation. Do you have any idea how hard it is to craft a 10 minute presentation? Not that you care, so I won’t get into the pain of snipping away cleaverisms and to stick to the bare bones message. At the left is a picture of my panel, “Adoption Access to Records and History Adopted People and the “Right to Know.” Fred Greenman, General Counsel, American Adoption Congress; Pam Hasegawa, moderator, Trish Maskew, president of Ethica (not on panel), Bastardette, Elizabeth Sammuels, professor of law, U. of Baltimore and records access legal scholar). * * * * * * INTRODUCTION There are a number of reasons why the original birth certificates of adoptees remain sealed in all but a handful of states. Well-funded adoption industry lobbies such as the National Council for Adoption; powerful tangential lobbies such as the National Right to Life Committee, the Family Research Council, the Continue Reading →