No Longer Denied
Today I want to share with you something that is very close to my heart. This is my story. It's about being an adoptee and finally having my rights restored. I was born in a state which denied adult adoptees access to their original birth certificate. Since 1944 adoptees in my state have not been allowed to see or have a copy of their original birth certificate. Once an adoption is finalized, the original birth certificate is sealed and a new one replaces it. For the past three years I have been involved in a legislative initiative to change that. My friends and I testified before our state legislators. Our adoptive parents came and tesitifed in support of their children. We told our stories. Each one different but with a common thread. We were people denied access to our original birth certificates based on one fact alone...we were adopted. After a long and hard battle, we won. The legislators of our state listened to us and changed the law. Now ad...