Why would an adoptee want access to their OBC, birth, and adoption records?
For the same reason a non-adopted person would. (a) The OBC and other documents give the adoptee specific details of their birth and is the only record and link to their true heritage. To deny an adoptee their heritage also affects their offspring. (b) In some cases, there have been problems with adoptees obtaining passports and high security clearance jobs because the ABC looks fake. In many cases, the ABC doesn’t look like the birth certificates that everyone else has. (c) Most importantly, adoptees feel that since the adult non-adopted person can access this information, if they choose to, adult adoptees should have equal access to the same information concerning their own birth. To do otherwise is discriminatory.
