An incredibly important  Supreme Court decision has come out of India on Monday!
I have no real time to write about it all at the moment, so instead, I’m going to pull a variety of quotes out of some of the articles from the past day or so to lay out the outlines of what has [...]

Sunday, August 15, 2010
BASTARD NATION ACTION ALERT: Monday is “Contact Chairman Oliver Day” (Pennsylvania)
Please distribute freely!
BASTARD NATION ACTION ALERT
Give Pennsylvania unrestricted HB 1978 a hearing!
Monday, August 16, 2010:
“Contact Chairman Oliver Day for Adoptee Rights”
HB 1978 is a short, simply written bill to restore the right of all Pennsylvania adoptees to their original birth [...]

If you don’t know about the Magdalene Asylums/Magdalene Laundries you should.
They form a crucial chapter in the flesh and blood consequences of what can and has happened to women and children when the Catholic church gains control over a woman’s reproductive capacity and her life.
Visit  Justice for Magdalenes.
Then the memorial statue in Galway, while you [...]

Another day, another closure due to an ongoing pattern of falsified documents.
Today the U.S. closed off adoptions of children classified as “abandoned” or foundlings in Nepal after finding an ongoing pattern in previous American adoptions of children labeled “abandoned in Nepal, the “documents presented in support of the abandonment of these children in Nepal have [...]

“Americans for African Adoptions”, widely credited as the first agency to facilitate adoptions from Ethiopia, sits squarely at the center of a latest round of  lawsuits in relation to yet another Ugandan adoption scandal.
Uganda has an ongoing history of adoption corruption, even as the number of kids being imported to the US continues to rise, [...]

Many people assume that the intentional stripping of parental rights for Indigenous peoples ended with the closure of the American and Canadian “Indian Residential Schools” or with the Indian Child Welfare Act (or ICWA, here in the States back in 1978,)   or even by the signing of Public Law 110-351, (link opens a pdf) which [...]

(A continuation of my parody from part 1, about the adoption related aftermath of the worst earthquakes to strike Maryland in 252 years.)

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Day 7
As the first week after the quakes came to a close, America’s most important disaster relief workers, adoption agencies, shifted into high gear.
80 young survivors were loaded onto a plane bound [...]

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Day 1
I am fortunate to count myself among the living after this morning’s early morning earthquakes rocked the Maryland region.
The initial 3.6 quake, followed soon thereafter by the 2.0 that devastated Germantown, Maryland, hit just after 5 this morning.
While other parts of the country may dismiss these as “small,” the 3.6 was the highest [...]

For those of you arriving here by way of my comment on the Huffington Post piece, or this article on RH Reality Check, my post in question can be found here:
Adoption in relation to Abortion provision, notes on clinics that embrace adoption marketing
As time allows I hope to write a response to these two pieces [...]

New Jersey
There is a significant possibility that New Jersey’s botched legislation, SCS1406  (SCS799/1399)  has been pulled for this session.
But this is no time to become complacent.
We must keep the pressure on: keep educating, keep communicating with lawmakers and the Governor, and keep working for nothing short of restored equality.

Those advocating in support for this [...]