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Terminally Ill Rally for their Lives

Question:

Attention Bastards/FOBs/Birthpeople/paps/and people Everywhere: Sign an organ donor card. Let your next of kin know of your wishes. (And you can always donate blood or bone marrow while you’re still alive. The Red Cross needs minority bone marrow donors!) Politically correct speaking aside, it may be the ultimate reunification–or A SINGLE WAY to put a good spin on a lousy world where we are denied "Mortal Kontakt" with our biological families. Dave "Can anyone spare their Pancreas" Sipley Baastard Nation Dan Quayle Spelling Scholarship Committee Chairman – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release:     Contact:  Deb Schwarz 415-931-0844 Terminally Ill Adult Adoptees Denied Medical Information Rally For  "No More Secrets and Lies"

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PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release:     Contact:  Deb Schwarz 415-931-0844 Terminally Ill Adult Adoptees Denied Medical Information Rally For  "No More Secrets and Lies" Bastard Nation is pleased to announce T.I.E.S., the Terminal Illness Emergency Search program.  Bastard Nation has assembled a team of professional and volunteer Internet searchers across the nation who have donated their time and expertise to searching for birthfamily members of those with a terminal illness.  In the last month, there have been several reunions as a result of the program-last week a terminally ill adoptee in San Francisco was just happily reunited with his father after being separated for 33 years.  He will be at the open records rally on Saturday, March 1 (see below) and is available for interview. The T.I.E.S program is in response to the need for adult adoptees (ill and otherwise) to have direct access to their original birth certificates.  In all but two states in the U.S. (Kansas and Alaska), adult adoptees are forbidden from accessing their birth certificate (and thus vital medical, heritage and identity information) thanks to archaic depression-era laws which mandated that adoptee birth certificates be falsified and sealed, allegedly to protect the adoptee from the shame of their "illegitimate" heritage. Until these archaic laws are changed, TIES (and its network of searchers), is helping terminally ill adult adoptees who need vital medical history information and a sense of their identity-before it’s too late. To help generate public awareness of TIES and the sealed records travesty, an Open Records Rally will be held outside the showing of the Oscar nominated film "Secrets and Lies". When:  Saturday, March 1,  from noon to 4 pm.                     (3 blocks west of Masonic) Bastard Nation is the fastest-growing international adoptee-rights movement in the adoption reform movement today. Visit our website at http://www.bastards.org/ for information on our mission and services to the adoptee community, including the Terminal Illness Emergency Search (TIES) program, Internet Activism Workshops, RegDay involvement and more.

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