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Who Else Gets Your OBC?

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

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

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

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

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

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

First published on March 12, 2019 • Last updated on January 29, 2020

An amended Florida bill does absolutely nothing and, in doing nothing, actually makes things worse.

First published on March 9, 2019 • Last updated on March 13, 2019

Take action today. Contact members of a Florida subcommittee to request a “NO” vote on HB597.

First published on March 6, 2019 • Last updated on April 23, 2019

Clean bills have made it out of the first legislative “funnel”—a deadline in Iowa for bills to be voted out of committee.

First published on February 26, 2019 • Last updated on February 26, 2019

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.

First published on January 31, 2019 • Last updated on March 13, 2019

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.

First published on December 27, 2018 • Last updated on May 22, 2023

Help draft a clean Minnesota bill that provides an unrestricted right for all adult adoptees to obtain their own original birth records upon request.

First published on December 26, 2018 • Last updated on December 26, 2018

We is almost always exclusive, and it is defined by those who speak it. Who are “we” overlooking in adoptee rights?