Day 10 of Adoption Activism; NAAM2013 – Help Adoptee Rights in Ohio

10. Day 10 of Adoption Activism; NAAM2013 - Help Adoptee Rights in Ohio

Adoptee Rights in Ohio Let’s Do it This Year!!

http://www.adoptionequityohio.org/

10.	Day 10 of Adoption Activism; NAAM2013 - Help Adoptee Rights in OhioAfter passing the Senate Medicaid, Health and Human Services Committee unanimously, SB-23 was held over as the Senate finished its difficult work on the massive state budget bill. The ROAR leadership team worked throughout the summer with our Senate sponsors to strategize our approach for the upcoming Senate session, which begins mid-September. We want to thank all of ROAR’s grassroots proponents for staying engaged throughout these slow summer months and not losing your momentum. Your passion helped pass HB-61 in the House and it will be a critical factor in the success of SB-23 in the Senate!

Adoption Equity Ohio has grassroots proponents in 97% of Ohio’s Senate districts.

As a proponent YOU need to take Action NOW!

Our first priority is to get SB-23 passed through the Senate. To do this, we must encourage Senate leadership to bring the bill for a vote and continue to drum up support for the bill from all 33 Senators. We need all ROAR grassroots proponents to ACT NOW and complete the following actions:

  1. Send a letter to the editor of your local newspaper
  2. Contact your Senator
  3. Send a Thank You Postcard to Senators Beagle and Burke

About the Author

Claudia Corrigan DArcy
Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy has been online and involved in the adoption community since early in 2001. Blogging since 2005, her website Musings of the Lame has become a much needed road map for many mothers who relinquished, adoptees who long to be heard, and adoptive parents who seek understanding. She is also an activist and avid supporter of Adoptee Rights and fights for nationwide birth certificate access for all adoptees with the Adoptee Rights Coalition. Besides here on Musings of the Lame, her writings on adoption issue have been published in The New York Times, BlogHer, Divine Caroline, Adoption Today Magazine, Adoption Constellation Magazine, Adopt-a-tude.com, Lost Mothers, Grown in my Heart, Adoption Voice Magazine, and many others. She has been interviewed by Dan Rather, Montel Williams and appeared on Huffington Post regarding adoption as well as presented at various adoption conferences, other radio and print interviews over the years. She resides in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband, Rye, children, and various pets.