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Gregory D. Luce

Contact Governor Cuomo Today

First published on December 20, 2017 • Last updated on December 31, 2017

You can tweet, post, yell, pray, or fill out an online form. But it’s now best to call. Tell Gov. Cuomo to veto A53036B.

The Truth About Florida

First published on December 6, 2017 • Last updated on January 31, 2019

HB821 and HB357 Florida

The truth about Florida is this: no OBC access bill will get through the Florida legislature this session without legislators adding crippling and discriminatory restrictions. Ask questions. But insist on true answers.

What You (Don’t) Get in Pennsylvania

First published on November 21, 2017 • Last updated on November 21, 2017

Melted Rainbow Ice Cream Cone

Far from a copy of an original birth certificate, the document Pennsylvania adoptees actually receive today is so disappointing as to be laughable.

Fact-Checking Florida HB357

First published on November 20, 2017 • Last updated on January 31, 2019

When you fact-check claims of anonymous people who tell adoptees to swallow inequality, the decision is easy. No to HB357. It’s yet another disaster.

Donate DNA Kits for #AdopteeRightsAwareness

First published on November 7, 2017 • Last updated on October 17, 2019

DNA Donate Kits

I want to do two things in November: 1) celebrate my birthday; and 2) help adoptees who cannot afford DNA test kits. Come celebrate with us.

Opposition Mounts Against Florida ‘Adoptee Rights’ Bill

First published on October 30, 2017 • Last updated on November 3, 2018

Adoptees and more than two dozen state and national organizations oppose Florida’s HB357, a badly flawed anti-equality bill

When Something is Nothing and Nothing is Something

First published on October 24, 2017 • Last updated on November 3, 2018

Florida’s HB357 creates an inequitable two-class system of OBC access that requires a forty year period to pass after an adoption before most adoptees can obtain original birth certificates upon request.

What’s at Stake: Florida

First published on September 27, 2017 • Last updated on February 28, 2021

If proposed legislation in Florida does not preserve a clean and unrestricted right to an OBC, then it will strip away rights from those who have already held them for decades.

Let’s Do Some New York Math

First published on June 28, 2017 • Last updated on June 28, 2017

Do the New York Math for A5036B

I preface this by saying, “My God, New York legislators, did you not even think to determine the financial impact of this terrible bill?”

New York’s Bad Bill

First published on June 25, 2017 • Last updated on December 31, 2017

People working in 1970s office

With questions about New York’s not-an-OBC access bill, I thought I’d set out what the bill actually does—or actually fails to do for adoptee rights.

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