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Gregory D. Luce

A Better Place for the Adoptee DNA Project

First published on August 2, 2019 • Last updated on August 2, 2019

As of August 1, 2019, the DNA Kit Donation program and its current funds have been transferred to Adoptees United, a national charitable nonprofit organization.

Updated Info about New York’s Equal Rights Bill

First published on June 22, 2019 • Last updated on June 24, 2019

New York Assembly

An updated list of questions and answers about the Weprin/Montgomery Bill, which was finally passed in the New York Assembly on June 20, 2019

The Presence of a Man

First published on May 29, 2019 • Last updated on May 29, 2019

No to CT Amendments

Demand that Connecticut Senators reject the “Somers Amendment,” a backwards approach that literally requires the presence of a man to release an adoptee’s own vital record.

Texas Has Defied Expectations. Or Has It?

First published on May 8, 2019 • Last updated on May 8, 2019

Will Texas HB2725 continue to defy expectations? That’s less and less clear.

The Kafkaesque Case of James Christian Werthmann

First published on May 5, 2019 • Last updated on November 15, 2022

I’m not the first person to conjure up Kafka as a way to describe James Werthmann’s case. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recognized the absurdity immediately.

What I Mean When I Mean Clean

First published on May 1, 2019 • Last updated on September 12, 2023

Bug splattered on an otherwise clean car windshield

Clean should always be the default, while dirty is the defined term, the aberration.

Tell Iowa Reps: NO on SF621

First published on April 22, 2019 • Last updated on April 25, 2019

Circular sign above railroad tracks with white letters stating derail

Contact members of the Iowa House of Representatives. Tell them to vote NO on SF621

Who Else Gets Your OBC?

First published on April 21, 2019 • Last updated on April 21, 2019

Butcher chart for cuts of pork. Yellow hog with numbers on it

An Iowa bill has another problem: who actually gets the OBC? Everyone in the family, including the family dog? And which “family?”

Toeing the Bottom Line

First published on April 18, 2019 • Last updated on April 18, 2019

Legs of a couple standing opposite each other divided by the yellow asphalt line top view

With pressure to amend a Texas bill to add discriminatory provisions, it’s unclear if STAR will now “wink” and let it happen.

Texas: Setting the Records Straight

First published on March 27, 2019 • Last updated on March 27, 2019

Texas: Setting the Records Straight

A new report on Texas laws related to original birth certificates, published by the Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition.

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