California passed a bill last week that may ultimately fail to address the need to finalize some intercountry adoptions in the United States
A Better Place for the Adoptee DNA Project
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
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
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?
Will Texas HB2725 continue to defy expectations? That’s less and less clear.
The Kafkaesque Case of James Christian Werthmann
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
Clean should always be the default, while dirty is the defined term, the aberration.
Who Else Gets Your OBC?
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
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
A new report on Texas laws related to original birth certificates, published by the Texas Adoptee Rights Coalition.