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Loretta Lies (Again), This Time About the Effect of S799
| March 8, 2010 State Senator Loretta Weinberg (D-Bergen) sits on the Senate Health, Human Services & Senior Citizens Committee. We all suffer for it on a regular basis, Save Jerseyans!
The latest example? Her committee approved S799 last week, a bill that would make it impossible for young pregnant women that have to choose between abortion and adoption to enter into an anonymous adoption process. You can read more about S799 by clicking here. There's no getting around the fact that this is a pro-abortion bill. Removing one of key elements that makes adoption palatable will inevitably result in more otherwise preventable abortions.
In a Blue Jersey post from earlier this morning, Weinberg rationalized her rabid support for S799 by arguing that women can simply "opt out" if they choose to remain anonymous:
Nice try, Loretta, but I wasn't born yesterday.
Let's get the facts straight. Under S799, the birth certificate would not be sealed for adoptions occurring after the legislation's passage. Senator Weinberg is correct to say that birth parents could choose to submit a document of contact preference to Trenton and, in the document, indicate their unwillingness to be contacted by the adopted child. Unfortunately, the legislation's other wrinkles render the birth parent's preference document completely meaningless! Even if the parent selects "no contact" on the contact preference document, the State of New Jersey will still provide the adoptee with the "long form" version of his or her birth certificate. For those of you unfamiliar with this particular bureaucratic process, the long form contains all necessary identifying information including the birth mother’s actual contact preference form. Stupidity or deceit by the drafters?
And it gets better. If this new law is approved by the Legislature, birth parents would be required to update their medical history information every ten years until they reach age 40 and every five years following their 40th birthday. Hence, nothing protects the birth parent's identity save the adopted person's willingness to honor the birth parent's original preference.
Whether or not you support this bill, Save Jerseyans, it's distressing that Senator Weinberg has once again chosen to deceive New Jersey residents regarding the true effect of her votes. S799 does not give birth mothers a choice in the adoption process. Loretta's insistence on lying about it validates my initial assumption: that this is a camouflaged pro-abortion bill championed by some of the Senate's most socially liberal radicals.
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