Why are Adoptees Denied Their Rights?
Adult adoptees should have the rights to records and birth certificates that concern themselves without having to have permission from anyone. Adoptees deserve the right to know SOMETHING about their background as adults. I do not want to obtain my original birth certificate for the purpose of finding my birth mother. I’ve already done that without the help of state or government agencies. Keeping records and birth certificates from adoptees is not going to keep us from locating and contacting our birth parents. However, supporting open records will allow adult adoptees the right to information that all non-adoptees considers their BIRTH RIGHT and they don’t require parental permission to get it! It will allow adult adoptees to gain the tools needed to obtain important medical information – information that is withheld to any adoptees not adopted at the exact moment they came into this world. This situation, however, simply does not happen. I was not legally adopted until I was thirtee
