To: NY State Legislators
Stolen Families Project
End adoption secrecy. Allow adult adoptees access to their original birth certificates so that they can re-connect with their original parents and families.
Why is this important?
In most of the U.S. adult adoptees are legally discriminated against. Outdated laws governing adoption make it virtually impossible for an adult adoptee or birth parent to connect with family. I'm an adoptee who found out late in life that I was adopted. It threw me for a loop but when I found out the state of NY prevented me from seeing my original birth certificate, denying my human right to know my family and ethnic origins, I was stunned.