Join Adoptees United, Gregory Luce, and many others each week to bemoan and bemuse the state of adoptee rights. We’ll make it fun, though the bottom line is always about equality for all adopted people around the globe.

Adoptee United's Gregory Luce launches the new podcast and talks with Marley Greiner about the origins of Bastard Nation, the history of adoptee rights, and the growing threat of Safe Haven Baby Boxes

Can a person really be born in two different places? Yep, if you were adopted in Georgia. Greg talks with Jamie Weiss about her backstory and about a new story moving forward: changing the law in Georgia through her work with the Georgia Alliance for Adoptee Rights (GARR).

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Greg travels to Wisconsin for a legislative hearing and meets Diana Higgenbottom Anagnostopoulos and other advocates, legislative staffers, and legislators.

Diana's remarkable story is highlighted in this week's episode, and we talk about the documentary film being produced about her life, the hard work of showing up for adoptee rights advocacy, and what it takes to keep moving forward in the face of adversity. Plus, what she means by the three-egg omelette of adoption.

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Greg talks with Claire McGettrick and Mari Steed about Ireland's history of adoption and original birth records---which have always been public records---and the decades-long fight for Irish-born adopted people to secure the right to obtain all records related to their own identities and history.

You can read more about this issue and Claire and Mari's work at Adoption Rights Alliance, which is also a partner in the rights-based research work of the CLANN Project.

And check out Claire and Mari's (and others') recent book, Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries: A Campaign for Justice, which provides "an overview of the social, cultural and political contexts of institutional survivor activism, the Irish State's response culminating in the McAleese Report, and the formation of the Justice for Magdalenes campaign, a volunteer-run survivor advocacy group."

Do bad bills ever go good? Rarely, if ever. But that may change with Vermont this session, as House Bill 629 is being redrafted and is expected to be cleaned up, all through the efforts of local and national advocates, including the Vermont Adoptee Rights Working Group.

Greg talks to Rebekah Henson, Ellie Lane, Rebecca Dragon, and Mary Anna King about their efforts and work in Vermont, about the New England Adoptee Rights Coalition, and about working to educate legislators about adoptee rights and original birth records.

Get more information about the New England Adoptee Rights Coalition here, as well as the Vermont Adoptee Rights Working Group here. And you can watch the latest testimony in the Vermont House Judiciary Committee on its YouTube channel here, including live testimony on March 9 for House Bill 629.