What is Bastard Nation? by Damsel Plum Bastard Nation was born in early 1996 on the Internet Usenet newsgroup, alt.adoption. Our founder, Marley Greiner, coined the term “Bastard Nation” and started signing her posts with …
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Bastard Nation Action Alert: West Virginia HB4815 and SB153. DO NOT PASS. Reactionary and Dangerous
HB4815 is a confusing bill that requires adult adoptees to apply UNSUCCESSFULLY to the West Virginia Mutual Consent Registry for their identifying information BEFORE they can apply for their OBC.SB153 is another nonsensical bill that redacts by default, all identifying information on the OBC unless a biological parent specifically authorizes, via a Department of Health consent form, the release of the genuine unredacted document. The bill restricts OBC access and will set a reactionary legal precedent: no other state redacts OBCs by default.
Continue readingWest Virginia HB4815 and B153: Bastard Letter of Opposition, January 20, 2024
Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization PO Box 4607 New Windsor, New York 12553-7845 bastards.org 614-795-6819 bastardnation3@gmail.com TO: Honorable Members of the West Virginia House of Representatives and Senate FROM: …
Continue readingFlorence Fisher, 1928–2023. We Stand on Her Shoulders!
The outrage is that we must respect the righs of the adoptive parents and the birth parents. What about the rights of the adut adoptee being conditional on the whims of other people?
Continue readingSB64: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, March 29, 2023
SB64 should have passed the House. The bill was a shoo-in. It had no organized opposition. Even traditional opponents agreed to remain neutral. The bill zipped through the Senate and the House Judiciary Committee unanimously. But then something happened. A small group of politicians found the right of their own state’s adopted people to obtain their own Original Birth Certificates “troublesome.” and “problematic,” or something worse. I don’t know their objections (I can guess) or who they are, though it is likely that House Speaker Jon Burns was among them. Did at least some of them have “a little something” to hide? Whatever was going on, they decided to keep Class Bastard Georgia in line. If SB64 isn’t heard and doesn’t exist on the agenda then adoptees don’t.
Continue readingBastard Nation Letter of Opposition to West Virginia SB470. VOTE DO NOT PASS!
We urge you to reject SB470 a bill that seriously restricts the right of West Virginia-born adoptees to obtain their Original Birth Certificates. The bill appears to have been written without the input of adopted persons and passed in the Senate without at least one public hearing.
The bill, pertains only to OBCs and not adoption files. It redacts by default, all identifying information on the birth record, unless a biological parent specifically authorizes the release of the document with that information via submission of consent forms to the Department of Health.
In effect, this means that barely anyone would qualify for a true copy of their OBC.
Continue readingEmergency Action Alert: West Virginia SB470. Kill the bill. Reactionary & Adopteephobic
CONTACT WEST VIRGINIA LAWMAKERS TODAY! The West Virginia legislature is attempting to sneak through SB470, a reactionary and adopteephobic “OBC/adoptee rights bill” that would (1) By default, redact all Original Birth Certificates of identifying information unless a biological parent specifically authorizes the release of the document via submission of consent forms to the Department of Health and (2) Require adoptees to have a high school diploma, GED or have withdrawn “officially” from school to receive the document in any form–redacted or unredacted.
Continue readingHB470. Letter to the West Virginia House Judiciary Committee from Barbara Flaherty Fuller: Kill the Bill!
I am writing to you concerning SB470, I am humbly asking you to kill this bill. I will outline my reasoning below As written this bill violates human decency, currently the …
Continue readingWest Virginia SB470: You’re Redacted!
But a couple of days ago, the unthinkable happened. SB470, the latest OBC travesty, started to move, and yesterday (March 1, 2023) the West Virginia Senate Judiciary Committee rendered this already silly bill useless, abhorrent, and adopteephobic with an amendment that makes the OBCs of all West Virginia-born adoptees redacted by default.
Continue readingMontana HB200: Bastard Nation Letter to Senate Public Health, Welfare, and Safety Committee, February 13, 2022. OPPOSE
Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization PO Box 4607 New Windsor, New York 12553-7845 614-795-6819 bastards.org bastards3 @gmail.com @BastardsUnite __________ _ Montana Senate Public Health, Welfare, and Safety Committee HB 200 Newborn …
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