Track Legislation
Position color key: Support Monitor Oppose
State
AZ HB 2070 introduced
CT HB 5130 proposed
FL HB 89, SB 302 signed
MN SF 2606/HF 2906 - not heard in committee in 2020
MS SB 2092 introduced
SB 2205 introduced
HB190 introduced
UT HB 345 signed
WI SB 521, AB 579 dead
WV SB 25
Image: Billy Hathorn, SC State Senate Chamber
Federal
HR 2731, S 1554 - Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2019 (Died in committee without hearing.)
HR 1952, S 938 - Intercountry Adoption Information Act of 2019
Image: Luis Velasquez
The law must be consonant with life. It cannot and should not ignore broad historical currents of history. Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old questions: “Who am I” “Why am I?” Even now the sands and ashes of the continents are being sifted to find where we made our first step as man. Religions of mankind often include ancestor worship in one way or another. For many the future is blind without a sight of the past.
Those emotions and anxieties that generate our thirst to know the past are not superficial and whimsical. They are real and they are 'good cause' under the law of man and God.
The petition is conditionally granted.
IT IS SO ORDERED
April 9, 1979
[Signed]
WADE S. WEATHERFORD, JR.
Resident Judge, Seventh Judicial
Circuit Court, South Carolina