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National Press

The New York Times<: "Where Adoption Is Suddenly an Open Book" by Jim Robbins, May 17, 2001

Rolling Stone: "The Bastard Chronicles" By Randall Sullivan, January 15, 2001

Associated Press: "Adoptees Battle Secrecy of Records" By David Crary, November 11, 2000

Seventeen Magazine: " Are you my mother? Adopted teens search for their families, their histories and their identities." by Gayle Forman, November 2000

USA Today: "Adoptees' rights group gets support in Washington" By Patrick McMahon, September 11, 2000

Weekly Standard: "The Rise of 'Bastard Nation' And the threat to Adoption", By Ira Carnahan, September 11, 2000

Offspring Magazine: "This Woman Wants you to Call her a Bastard", by Jonathan Eig: June/July 2000; Letter to Editor from BN ExecCom: Sep/Oct 2000

Chicago Tribune: "Opening Adoption Files Worries Birth Parents, Some Say their Privacy Outsptrips Kids' Interests", by Vincent J. Schodolski: April 16, 2000

Boston Globe: "Politicians push for legalized baby abandonment at safe sites" by Adam Pertman: March 10, 2000

Jewish World Review: "Constitution: A way to save unwanted newborns" by Mona Charen, nationally syndicated columnist: February 24, 2000

Glamour Magazine: "The Great Debate: Do adopted children have the right to know about their birth parents?", By Jessica Branch: July 1999

USA TODAY: "Adoptees demand right to past: Activists fight for access to their birth records, but mothers say they were promised anonymity. Now, two sides take battle to Oregon court." By Patrick McMahon: June 25, 1999

The Washington Times: "Adoptees gaining birth records as mothers fret about privacy" by Cheryl Wetzstein: May 23, 1999

NetGuide: April 13, 1999

San Francisco Examiner: Fight over adoption secrecy: Adoptees' drive for right to identify birth parents can conflict with elders' need for privacy" by Examiner Editorial writer, February 22, 1999
Letters to the Editor: 2/24/99;
More Letters to the Editor: 3/1/99

More Letters to the Editor: 3/10/99

Newsweek: "Haunted by a Painful History: In Oregon, adoptees and birthmothers square off in a battle over secrecy" by Lynette Clemetson: February 22, 1999
Letters: March 15, 1999

Time: "Tracking Down Mom: Should adopted children have the right to uncover their birthparents? More states are trying to open records", by John Cloud: February 22, 1999
Letters: March 15, 1999

The Los Angeles Times: "Open-Adoption Initiative Is Facing Voters in Oregon", by Kim Murphy, November 3, 1998

GEORGE Magazine: "Ballot Initiatives" November 1998

The Boston Globe: "Oregon voters could open door to adoptees' past" by Adam Pertman October 2, 1998

POZ: "I Want my Mommy" Bastard Nation and TIES (Terminal Illness Emergenecy Search): January, 1998

HotWired: "Keyword: Mom" by Simson Garfinkel: Sept. 8, 1997

Yahoo! Internet Life: "Once Lost Now Found" by David Rothman: May, 1997

MSNBC's The Site: "Parent Search": April 2, 1997

MSNBC Cinemania: "No more Secrets & Lies" By Kris Kaiyala, March 17, 1997

Newsweek: "Family Secrets: From hidden adoptions to hushed-up romances, that which you don't know still has the power to hurt you." by David Gelman and Debra Rosenberg, February 24, 1997

Self Magazine: "Mother and Child Reunions: The Internet is helping to link up adults who have lost someone through adoption" by Elizabeth Kadetsky, December, 1996


Local Press

AL:
Montgomery Advertiser - 1/24/00

CA:
San Diego Union Tribune - 9/1/99
Contra Costa Times - 4/25/99
San Jose Mercury News - 12/6/98
New Times: 3/27/97
L.A. Daily News: 3/25/97
La Opinion: 3/25/97
The Cambrian: 3/20/97
SF Bay Guardian: 3/19/97
San Jose Mercury News: 3/10/97
Daily Californian (UC-Berkeley paper): 2/ 3/97
Oakland Tribune: 2/3/97

CT:
The New Haven Advocate - 11/ 26/98

Washington DC:
Washington CityPaper - 5/21/99

DE:
Mary-Lee Lutz on the UAA4/26/98

GA:
Macon Telegraph 12/4/98

HI:
Honolulu Weekly 5/23/01

KS:
Coffeyville Journal 6/18/99

MN:
Pioneer Press - 7/20/98

NH:
Foster's Daily Democrat: 11/28/99

NJ:
Ashbury Park Press: 2/3/97
Bergen Record: February 3, 1997

NY:
Newsday- 1/30/99
The Daily Mail- 12/3/98

OK:
The Tulsa World - 2/4/01
The Edmond Sun
- 4/25/00
The Edmond Sun- 3/14/99
The Tulsa World - 12/4/98

OH:
The Beacon Journal - 11/4/2000
The Canton Repository - 10/31/2000
The Oakland Press - 3/29/00
The Columbus Dispatch - 10/4/98
Columbus Alive wireD - 9/30/97
Columbus Dispatch (OH): 3/7/97

OR:
The Oregonian - 12/10/99
The Willamette Weekly - 10/13/99
The Willamette Weekly - 9/22/99
The Oregonian - 12/6/98
The Willamette Weekly - 8/26/98
The Willamette Weekly - 7/22/98
Flux Magazine University of OR School of Journalism: Spring 1997

PA:
Philadelphia City Paper 1/27/00
Philadelphia City Paper 4/22/99
Philadelphia City Paper 12/10/98
The Philadelphia City Paper - 9/25/98
The Philadelphia Enquirer 8/27/98

TX:
Daily Texan University of TX: 4/29/97

WA:
Seattle Times 9/1/00
South County Journal 6/28/99
Washington Times 11/98 (M58)
Washington Times 11/98 (Nat. Reg.)



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