Clean bills have made it out of the first legislative “funnel”—a deadline in Iowa for bills to be voted out of committee.
Essential FAQ About the New York Bills
Quick and honest answers to questions you may have about the Weprin/Montgomery Bill, a clean adoptee rights bill in New York that I support.
Florida Bill: Reunion Required to Get Your OBC
Florida HB597 requires reunion with a birthparent before an adult adoptee can even apply for the OBC. That’s not at all a “small step” forward.
Can You Crowdsource Equal Rights Legislation?
Help draft a clean Minnesota bill that provides an unrestricted right for all adult adoptees to obtain their own original birth records upon request.
What We Overlook
We is almost always exclusive, and it is defined by those who speak it. Who are “we” overlooking in adoptee rights?
A Year of Donated DNA Test Kits
Whatever identity you have worn or celebrated or endured during this past November of “adoption” awareness, please consider donating a bit to assist adult adoptees with DNA.
Midterms and Adoptee Rights
As part of an upcoming gathering of national and local adoptee rights advocates in Austin, Texas, I am putting together resources on what to expect from key states after upcoming midterm elections.
Open Letter to Florida Representative Richard Stark
I ask that you support this proposed legislation and that you decline to introduce legislation that fails to provide adult adoptees with the unrestricted right to obtain their own OBCs.
Me and States and Stuff
Where we stand with state OBC laws, what I’m seeing and working on, and where things may be going from here.
Getting an Arkansas Original Birth Certificate
Discussion, questions, and a flow chart to help people understand how the new Arkansas OBC law works as well as its discriminatory limitations.