Activist, Search,Support Ethiopia Adoption Connection/Beteseb Felega Ethiopia Adoption Connection/Beteseb Felega (Facebook) Ethiopian Adoptees of the Diaspora(Facebook) Hana Alemu Befekadu/Hana Williams Death of Hana Grace-Rose Williams, Wiki Light of Day Stories has several pieces …
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Activist, Search,Support Arierang: Dutch Association of Korean Adoptees (Dutch) Links Do internationally adopted children in the Netherlands use more medication than their non-adopted peers?, European Journal of Pediatrics, February 5, 2016 Half a century of …
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Activist, Search,Support Adopterade Koreaners Forening (Adopted Koreans Association) Sweden) (Swedish) Adoption Policy and Reform (USA) Not about Korea per se, but tied to Korean concerns Belgian Adoptees from Korea Facebook (English) Dongari (Switzerland) (English) International Korea Adoptee Associations (Korea) (English) …
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Continue readingAction Alert New York Senate: Vote Do Pass S3419. No restrictions
We made history last week. The New York Senate Health Committee voted S3419 out of committee with a recommendation for Senate passage. This was the first time an adoptee rights bill was even considered in committee in the Senate. Our leaders and representatives have been walking the halls lobbying and speaking with your staff for months. We need YOUR help now to get us across the finish line.
Continue readingNew York: S3419 Makes History: Passes out of Senate Health Committee!
BULLETIN: Bastards made history this morning! S3419, the Senate version of the Weprin/.Montgomery bill passed out of the Senate Health Committee with flying colors and a shout out from Sen Gustavo Rivera (D-33). This is …
Continue readingNew York S3419: Bastard Nation’s letter to the Senate Health Committee. Please vote Do Pass!
S3419 treats the state’s adoptees as equal with the not-adopted. It stops the humiliating onerous legal (and often costly) process for adoptees simply to get their own birth certificates.Moreover, there is no state interest in segregating adoptees and keeping original birth certificates sealed from adult adoptees to which they pertain. Nor does the state have a right or duty to mediate and oversee the personal relationships of its citizens.
Continue readingMaine LD1688. Bastard Nation Testimony to House Judiciary Committee. Do Not Pass!
What adoptees want is the government held-copy of our birth. We want an us-centric birth certificate, not one that features other players. We do not want the names of adoptive parents who had nothing to do with the birth on the birth certificate. That doesn’t even make any sense. We do not want add-ons or amendments. We do not want a whackadoodle certificate that singles us out and might not even be legal by federal standards.We are not a footnote to our own births, We are not Comments.
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Bastard Nation is a proud partner organization in the New York Adoptee Rights Coalition, along with the Adoptee Rights Law Center and the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York. Plus strategic partner Reclaim the Records
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Bastard Nation is a proud partner in the Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition, along with Equality for Adoption, Gladney Adoptees for Rights and Equality, and the Adoptee Rights Law Center. Plus strategic partner Reclaim the Records