Friends of “CLEAN” adoption reform, Happy Sunday! If you are reading this, then tonight (6/18) and tomorrow morning (6/19) join us in our e-mail action to help the legislature understand why the unacceptable policy of sealing adoption records happened in New York! And why, tomorrow, the Assembly must reject A5036-B / S4845-B and support our “clean” A6821-A / S5169-A! MUST READ! http://nypost.com/2017/06/17/this-woman-stole-children-from-the-poor-to-give-to-the-rich/ STATUS: 1. Legislative session ends this week on Wednesday 6/21. 2. Our “Clean” bill (A6821-A / S5169-A) is alive, but remains in Senate and Assembly Health Committees (thanks to all who assisted our recent call to action!) 3. The unacceptable, regressive proposal (A5036-B / S4845-B), which would discriminate against all New York adult adoptees, is on the Assembly floor calendar and, sadly, for the third year in a row, may be voted on as early as tomorrow. LET’S ALL WRITE THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW (SEE CUT AND PASTE E-MAIL ADDRESSES BELOW TOO)! SUGGESTED E-MAIL TITLE: Adoptee Human Rights! Reject A5036-B / S4845-B! Cosponsor A6821-A / S5169-A! SUGGESTED NOTE AND / OR PHONE SCRIPT (ADD YOUR STORY!): Hello. My name is ________ and I am contacting you from ________. I am one of over two thousand eight hundred supporters of the “Citizens Petition to Restore, and Advance, a ‘Clean’ New York Bill of Adoptee Rights.” We respectfully ask the following: 1. Please reject A5036-B / S4845-B 2. Please cosponsor and advance A6821-A / S5169-A A new article from the New York Post helps to explain why the unacceptable policy of sealed adoption records in New York took place, and why bills that discriminate against adoptees today (A5036-B) must be rejected. We hope you will take a moment to read this chilling account of how a woman named Georgia Tann, and even our own former Governor, Herbert Lehman, helped usher in the failed experiment of adoptee discrimination laws like we have now, and are proposed in the unacceptable A5036-B / S4845-B: http://nypost.com/2017/06/17/this-woman-stole-children-from-the-poor-to-give-to-the-rich/ We respectfully ask that the New York Assembly reject the bill on the current floor calendar which would NOT honor adoptee human and civil rights (A5036-B / S4845-B). Instead, as on February 10, 2015, when the Health Committee voted 23 – 2 in favor of “clean” adoption reform, it’s time to advance the new, New York Bill of Adoptee Rights (A6821-A / S5169-A). “Clean” reform, for unrestricted, equal access to original birth certificates for adult adoptees works in nine others states and will (1) protect health by making access to medical history quicker, (2) save taxpayer funds compared to other proposals, (3) demonstrate that New York is serious about bipartisan efforts for human and civil rights and (4) save time to avoid other incremental, or regressive proposals (A5036-B), that would require additional legislative action. Our cause is supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) and the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC), just to name a few. Please reject A5036-B / S4845-B and co-sponsor, and call for advancement, of A6821-A / S5169-A. Thank you! 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brooks@nysenate.gov, comrie@nysenate.gov, We thank you for your continued support and will update you again very soon! Our voices will continue to be heard for true New York adoption reform! Onward! Tim, Doris and Jennifer