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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.

Bastards in the Room

First published on June 5, 2017 • Last updated on March 2, 2019

Elephant in the Room

It is through the emptiness of an answer that we sometimes obtain the truth.

And Then There Were Four

First published on May 24, 2017 • Last updated on May 28, 2019

With legislative sessions winding down, four states are still active with OBC access bills. Three bills are clean. One, in North Carolina, is simply bizarre.

What’s the Adoption Institute Up To?

First published on May 23, 2017 • Last updated on May 23, 2017

Four figures in various poses

With its newly announced OBC2020 “organized advocacy campaign,” why won’t the Donaldson Adoption Institute commit to unrestricted OBC access for all adult adoptees, unequivocally and without compromise?

The Nutso World of New York Adoptee Rights

First published on May 12, 2017 • Last updated on May 12, 2017

Not only does New York purport to seal adoption records and OBCs forever, but it also relies upon an archaic, punitive, and expensive court process to access anything remotely identifying.

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