FLAGSTAFF ARIZONA DAILY SUNNovember 18, 2007
Adoptees deserve open birth records
Being that November is National Adoption Awareness Month, I thought I'd take the time to increase awareness of a serious issue concerning adoptees. Adoptees are not allowed, by law, to access their own birth certificates. This means adoptees have no access to their own identities, including their ethnic heritage, genealogy, family medical history, siblings, or birth relatives who may wish contact.
The law claims "privacy" must be protected, but at what cost to adoptees? The adoptees are bound by a contract they never agreed to. Because of that, the adoptees lose their very identities. This is not justice in any sense of the word.
As an adult adoptee happily reunited with his birth family, I strongly urge everyone to support open records access for all adoptees. At no time should "privacy" be used as an excuse to deny human beings their rights to their own heritage.
KEVAN TAYLOR-PERRY
Flagstaff
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