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ILLINOIS: TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALLGAME SARA FEIGENHOLTZ STYLE

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Been wondering what our favorite Illinois adoptacrat Sara Feigenholtz has been up to? If you’re as curious as an adoptee rummaging through her parents’ desk, take a peek at Mary Fuller’s latest Rights of Adoptee blog (and be sure to check out the hilarious comments.) Rep. Feigenholtz recently spammed out a campaign fundraising letter inviting her fans–for a recommended donation–to an evening with her at 3609 Sheffield Rooftop–the in-crowd place to watch the Cubs Chaos ensued. Seems that Our Sarah (or an underling she can blame) misconfigured the list. Instead of a one-time announcement list, it’s now a discussion list–and boy are people discussing! Reportedly those spammed (the ones who stuck around and didn’t demand to be removed) included at least some of those adoptees and friends who at Sara’s request sent emails to her months ago about her “open records bill” that she never bothered to answer. (NOTE: her plea for letters is still up) STEALING HOMEThis is a perfect protest event. The only problem is local adoptees would probably have to ante up the “recommended donation” to get in. First base seats (the cheapest) are $150, but since they couldn’t even make it to there with Sara, they Continue Reading →

ILLINOIS: MITCHELL-FEIGENHOLTZ SPIN MACHINE GOES INTO ACTION! WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID OF?

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On March 31, Melisha Mitchell, putative author of Sara Feigenholtz’s notorious 77-page monster HB 4623 sent a mass mailing to AdoptionLand constituents asking for support. In this letter, Ms. Mitchell plays games with numbers, flogs the Illinois Registry, and claims that the only “real” opposition to the bill comes from “right-to-life” groups and “obscure internet entities.” The “obscure internet entities” she forgets to mention include Illinois Open, Bastard Nation, the Green Ribbons, Ethica, A Day for Adoptee Rights, BJ Lifton, Carol Schaefer, Sandra White Hawk, Maine Senator Paula Benoit, and New Hampshire Representative Janet Allen. “Obscure” indeed! Scroll down to my entry “Illinois Adoption Reform Coalition Urges: Reject HB 4623” for the Illinois Adoption Reform letter these and other prominent adoption reformers and activists signed and sent to the Illinois Legislature and the media last week. The Mitchell-Feigenholtz spin machine thought the rest of us would roll over. We have not and will not. Mitchell’s letter raises all sorts of questions: How “simple” can a 77-page procedure be? Why are some adoptees more deserving than others? Why are birthparents and other relatives (!) given 5 disclosure “choices”? How, ethically, can a birthparent for the cost of $40 wipe out their Continue Reading →

ILLINOIS OPEN’S ANITA FIELD: "…FEIGENHOLTZ FOLLOWED HER OWN PATH – ONE OF COMPROMISE…"

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Here are some recent comments from Illinois Open’s Anita Field. “Curiously,” we only learned of the impending March 12 introduction of Amendment 1 (aka a re-write of the bill) on Monday March 10 in an article in the Chicago Trib. Tuesday, March 11 Anita entered the hospital for scheduled surgery. We were told by Feigenholtz’s office that the vote on Wednesday would be on the “new language only” not the bill itself. On Wednesday, the bill passed out of committee after a show hearing whlie Anita was in surgery. See previous entry for Reform Coalition statement on HB 4623.We aren’t going away! Dear Illinois Open Friends, Thank you all for your support during the days when Representative Feigenholtz was preparing her bill. I tried my hardest to let her know that adoptees don’t want restrictions put upon them by the state. She countered by saying I’m living in a dream world and don’t understand the underbelly of politics. I worked very hard to persuade Representative Feigenholtz that the time was right for a clean bill, one that would help all adoptees equally. I know many of you wrote to her not once, but several times, without ever receiving a reply. Continue Reading →