BASTARD NATION ACTION ALERT! NEW JERSEY S1087/A2557
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(See previous post for BN's letter to the NJ Senate)
STOP DISCLOSURE VETO/WHITE OUT LEGISLATION IN NEW JERSEY!!!
ASK THE NEW JERSEY SENATE TO VOTE NO ON S1087/A2557! DON'T LET PASSAGE OF BAD LEGISLATION IN NEW JERSEY THREATEN EFFORTS IN OTHER STATES FOR TRUE EQUAL ACCESS FOR ADULT ADOPTEES!!
IT'S BACK!
S1087/A2557, (formerly S1093/A 3237) is due for a floor vote in the New Jersey Senate on Monday December 4. Please email or call the New Jersey Senators immediately and urge them to VOTE NO ON S1087/A2557. Please see contact information below.
The bill contains a birthparent disclosure veto provision. It also provides for a one year period following bill passage in which birthparents can file a veto to prohibit their names from being disclosed on the original birth certificates.
Bastard Nation: The Adoptee Rights Organization opposes legislation that denies any adult adoptees access to their own original birth records on par with all other citizens. Please let the Senate know that this issue is not about relationships between adoptees and their birthparents. It is about basic human and civil rights and the relationship between adoptees and the STATE of NEW JERSEY. The New Jersey state government should not be in the business of denying adult adoptees access to their own birth certificates in a misguided attempt to appease a mythical adversarial standoff between adoptees and birthparents.
Inclusion of a disclosure veto in this bill perpetuates the violation of adoptee rights by making unaltered birth certificate access a privilege bestowed at the whim of birthparents.Passage of bad legislation is New Jersey could easily undermine efforts of dedicate d reformers who are holding the line for adoptee rights in other states. What happens in one state impacts what other legislatures will consider.
New Jersey's S1087/A2557 is an abomination in light of the restoration of the right of all records access to all persons adopted in Oregon, Alabama, and New Hampshire. Adult adoptees and all who support adoptee rights should stand united for unrestricted access laws and not sell out just to get a bill passed! Disclosure veto legislation is unethical and unjust!Please e-mail, call, and write the New Jersey Senators and urge them to VOTE NO ON S1087/A2557!
READ THE FULL TEXT AT:
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2006/Bills/S1500/1087_R1.PDF
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2004/Bills/S1500/1093_R2.HTM
CONTACT INFORMATION: NEW JERSEY STATE SENATORS
SenAdler@njleg.org, SenAsselta@njleg.org, SenAllen@njleg.org, SenAsselta@njleg.org,SenBark@njleg.org, SenBryant@njleg.org, SenBucco@njleg.org,SenBuono@njleg.org,SenCardinale@njleg.org,SenCiesla@njleg.org,SenCodey@njleg.org,SenConiglio@njleg.org, SenConnors@njleg.org, SenDoria@njleg.org,SenGill@njleg.org, SenGirgenti@njleg.org,SenGormley@njleg.org,SenInverso@njleg.org,SenJames@njleg.org,SenKarcher@njleg.org,SenKavanaugh@njleg.org,SenKean@njleg.org,SenKenny@njleg.org,SenKyrillos@njleg.org,SenLance@njleg.org,SenLesniak@njleg.org,SenLittell@njleg.org,SenMadden@njleg.org,SenMartin@njleg.org,SenMcNamara@njleg.org,SenPalaia@njleg.org,SenRice@njleg.org,SenSacco@njleg.org,SenSarlo@njleg.org,SenScutari@njleg.org,SenSinger@njleg.org,SenSmith@njleg.org,SenSweeney@njleg.org,SenTurner@njleg.org, SenVitale@njleg.org, SenWeinberg@njleg.org
FULL SENATE CONTACT INFORMATION:
Senator John H. Adler
District Office: 1916 Route 70 East, Suite 3, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
(856)-489-3442
SenAdler@njleg.org
Senator Diane B. Allen
District Office: 2313 Burlington-Mt. Holly Road, Burlington, NJ 08016
(609)-239-2800
SenAllen@njleg.org
Senator Nicholas Asselta
District Office: Main Tree Commons, 1450 East Chestnut Avenue, Building 1,
Suite B, Vineland, NJ 08361
(856)-691-3004
SenAsselta@njleg.org
Senator Martha W. Bark
District Office: 3000 Midlantic Drive, Suite 103, Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
(856)-234-8080
SenBark@njleg.org
Senator Wayne R. Bryant
District Office: 501 Cooper Street, Camden, NJ 08102
(856)-757-0552
SenBryant@njleg.org
Senator Anthony R. Bucco
District Office: 75 Bloomfield Ave., 3rd Floor, Denville, NJ 07834
(973)-627-9700
SenBucco@njleg.org
Senator Barbara Buono
District Office: 100 Plainfield Ave., Suite 1, Edison, NJ 08817
(732)-819-8141
SenBuono@njleg.org
Senator Gerald Cardinale
District Office: 350 Madison Avenue, Cresskill, NJ 07626
(201)-567-2324
SenCardinale@njleg.org
Senator Andrew R. Ciesla
District Office: 852 Highway 70, Brick, NJ 08724
(732)-840-9028
SenCiesla@njleg.org
Senator Richard J. Codey
District Office: 449 Mount Pleasant Avenue, West Orange, NJ 07052
(973)-731-6770
SenCodey@njleg.org
Senator Joseph Coniglio
District Office: 205 Robin Road, Suite 216, Paramus, NJ 07652
(201)-576-9199
SenConiglio@njleg.org
Senator Leonard T. Connors
District Office: 620 West Lacey Road, Forked River, NJ 08731
(609)-693-6700
SenConnors@njleg.org
Senator Joseph V. Doria
SenDoria@njleg.org
Senator Nia H. Gill
District Office: 425 Bloomfield Avenue, 2nd Floor, Montclair, NJ 07042
(973)-509-0388
SenGill@njleg.org
Senator John A. Girgenti
District Office: 507 Lafayette Avenue, Hawthorne, NJ 07506
(973)-427-1229
SenGirgenti@njleg.org
Senator William L. Gormley
District Office: Hamilton Mall, Suite 108, Black Horse Pike, Mays Landing,
NJ 08330
(609)-646-3500
SenGormley@njleg.org
Senator Peter A. Inverso
District Office: 3691A Nottingham Way, Hamilton Square, NJ 08690
(609)-586-1330
SenInverso@njleg.org
Senator Sharpe James
District Office: 50 Park Place, Suite 1535, Newark, NJ 07102
(973)-622-0007
SenJames@njleg.org
Senator Ellen Karcher
District Office: 400 West Main Street, 3rd Floor, Freehold, NJ 07728
(732)-462-8883
SenKarcher@njleg.org
Senator Walter J. Kavanaugh
District Office: 76 North Bridge Street, Somerville, NJ 08876
(908)-526-4222
SenKavanaugh@njleg.org
Senator Thomas H. Kean
District Office: 203 Elm Street, 1st Floor, Westfield, NJ 07090
(908)-232-3673
District Office: 57 Union Place, Suite 310, Summit, NJ 07901
(908)-918-0414
SenKean@njleg.org
Senator Bernard F. Kenny
District Office: 235 Hudson Street, Suite 1, Hoboken, NJ 07030
(201)-653-1466
SenKenny@njleg.org
Senator Joseph M. Kyrillos
District Office: One Arin Park Building, Suite 303, 1715 Highway 35,
Middletown, NJ 07748
(732)-671-3206
SenKyrillos@njleg.org
Senator Leonard Lance
District Office: 119 Main Street, Flemington, NJ 08822
(908)-788-6900
SenLance@njleg.org
Senator Raymond J. Lesniak
District Office: 985 Stuyvesant Ave., Union, NJ 07083
(908)-624-0880
SenLesniak@njleg.org
Senator Robert E. Littell
District Office: P.O. Box 328, 25 Route 23 South, Franklin, NJ 07416
(973)-827-2900
SenLittell@njleg.org
Senator Fred H. Madden
District Office: 18 Somerdale Road, Blackwood, NJ 08012
(856)-227-5900
District Office: 129 Johnson Road, Suite 1, Turnersville, NJ 08012
(856)-232-6700
SenMadden@njleg.org
Senator Robert J. Martin
District Office: 101 Gibraltar Dr., Suite 1-A, Morris Plains, NJ 07950
(973)-984-0922
SenMartin@njleg.org
Senator Henry P. McNamara
District Office: 191 Godwin Ave., 2nd Floor, P.O. Box 68, Wyckoff, NJ 07481
(201)-848-9600
SenMcNamara@njleg.org
Senator Joseph A. Palaia
District Office: 290 Norwood Ave., Suite 204, Deal, NJ 07723
(732)-531-1303
SenPalaia@njleg.org
Senator Ronald L. Rice
District Office: 1044 South Orange Ave., Newark, NJ 07106
(973)-371-5665
SenRice@njleg.org
Senator Nicholas J. Sacco
District Office: 9060 Palisade Ave., North Bergen, NJ 07047
(201)-295-0200
SenSacco@njleg.org
Senator Paul A. Sarlo
District Office: Fleet Bank Building, 2nd Floor, 207 Hackensack St.,
Wood-Ridge, NJ 07075
(201)-804-8118
SenSarlo@njleg.org
Senator Nicholas P. Scutari
District Office: 1514 E. Saint Georges Ave., 2nd Floor, Linden, NJ 07036
(908)-587-0404
SenScutari@njleg.org
Senator Robert W. Singer
District Office: 2110 W. County Line Rd., Jackson, NJ 08527
(732)-901-0702
SenSinger@njleg.org
Senator Bob Smith
District Office: 216 Stelton Rd., Suite E-5, Piscataway, NJ 08854
(732)-752-0770
SenSmith@njleg.org
Senator Stephen M. Sweeney
District Office: Kingsway Commons, 935 Kings Highway, Suite 400, Thorofare,
NJ 08086
(856)-251-9801
District Office: 14 East Commerce St., 3rd Floor, Bridgeton, NJ 08302
(856)-455-1011
District Office: 1 New Market St., Salem, NJ 08079
(856)-339-0808
SenSweeney@njleg.org
Senator Shirley K. Turner
District Office: 1440 Pennington Rd., 1st Floor, Ewing, NJ 08618
(609)-530-3277
SenTurner@njleg.org
Senator Joseph F. Vitale
District Office: 87 Main St., Woodbridge, NJ 07095
(732)-855-7441
SenVitale@njleg.org
Senator Loretta Weinberg
545 Cedar Lane
Teaneck, NJ 07666
(201) 928-0100
SenWeinberg@njleg.org
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