Bad things happening in MA…

OBC for MA

December 28, 2006

The Massachusettes Open records bill has become a complete travisty of justice and the ideas of which it was created. It wouldn;t be so bad that the dern thing seemed to have no movement after the hearings etc, excpet that now it is ready to be law.
Senate bill 2690 amended version of 959:
INSTATRAC BILL SUMMARY
SB-2690 of 2005-2006

By the Senate Committee on Ways and Means: Directs the state registrar of vital records and statistics to provide adopted persons over the age of eighteen who were born in the commonwealth on or before July 14, 1974 or on or after January 1, 2008, or the adoptive parents of said persons, to provide access and/or copies of birth certificates of said persons from before their adoption which indicate prior legal parents; classifies evidence contained in the adoption record of a birth parent’s willingness to reveal their identity to the adopted person as sufficient evidence to warrant the release of said information; directs the registry of vital records and statistics to establish and maintain a contact information registry for the purpose of connecting birth parents with their biological children who were adopted; classifies participation with said registry as voluntary.

So what is the issue? The HUGE black out period….July 1974 to January 1 2008…so really any ADULT adoptee who is not over 33 years old or born retroactivly is shit out of luck. Why are some adoptes fvored with their OBC and others not. And prsonally, it means my own son’s OBC is still forevermore under lock and key.
The officialy MA link for the above is here
With the sad history of this travisty is here.

It was enacted apreantly on the 26th…merry fucking christmas….bend over so we can screw you! It is being laid beofre the governor to sign. Worse yet, the bill was “engrossed” on July 27, 2006 which means that it cannot be changed, added to, nor amended.

One signature before an awful piece of law is on the books!!!

What you can do: CALL THEM..beg Governor Mitt to NOT SIGN this peice of crap! I don;t care if ou live in MA or have any contact about it or not..if you know adoption and know this is WRONG, then CALL!!!
State House
Office of the Governor
Room 360
Boston, MA 02133
Phone: (617) 725-4005
(888) 870-7770 (instate use only)
FAX: (617) 727-9725
TTY: (617) 727-3666

It is NOT hard!! I am on hold with them right now!

And please…spread the word..this is bad adoption business and can hurt thousnads of moms and adoptees for years to come!

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Musings of the Lame was started in 2005 primarily as a simple blog recording the feelings of a birthmother as she struggled to understand how the act of relinquishing her first newborn so to adoption in 1987 continued to be a major force in her life. Built from the knowledge gained in the adoption community, it records the search for her son and the adoption reunion as it happened. Since then, it has grown as an adoption forum encompassing the complexity of the adoption industry, the fight to free her sons adoption records and the need for Adoptee Rights, and a growing community of other birthmothers, adoptive parents and adopted persons who are able to see that so much what we want to believe about adoption is wrong.

1 Comment on "Bad things happening in MA…"

  1. Marley Greiner | January 5, 2007 at 10:59 pm |

    Thanks for spreading the word on the abominable SB 2690. I suspect Romeny pocket vetoed it for all the wrong reasons. The whole legislative campaign has been a nightmare for those of who fight for real records access. I know some of the back story, but not all. As Bastardette wrote, all communication was shut down. For the last year it’s been impossible to get the least bit of information from lawmakers on the status of the bill–much less what the bill actually said. There is something very rotten in Massachusetts.

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