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The nation’s adoption laws and unsealing birth certificates
From ABC News: Along with the heightened barriers that being a Seymour Fenichel adoptee presents, any adopted person faces an uphill battle to find out information about their birth families. In the United States, most adopted children are given amended birth certificates that have only the names of their adoptive parents. In 44 states, original [...]
Change.org circulates petition to restore equal access for adult adoptees
From Change.org: Targeting: The President of the United States, The U.S. Senate, and The U.S. House of Representatives This petition is addressed to members of the US Congress and the President to ask for their support and involvement in restoring Adult Adoptees the Civil Right to their own personal Birth Certificates. Individual States have taken it upon themselves [...]
Connecticut: Milford woman fights to open birth records in adoption cases
From ctpost.com: Jane Servadio of Milford hasn’t seen her daughter in almost 30 years, though she has had her daughter’s address for much of that time. The infant she gave up for adoption nearly 50 years ago has made it clear that she wants only limited contact with her birth mother. But that hasn’t deterred [...]
Adopted child gets life-saving bone marrow from biological sister
From nola.com: Jeff and Roxanne Tully have something special to be thankful for on this Thanksgiving holiday: the chance for their daughter Madison to have a long, healthy life. “We’re thankful that God sent us a cure,” Roxanne said. That cure came from Madison’s biological sister, Jasmin Thomas, 18, of Metairie, who donated her bone [...]
Indiana: Mother meets her son 46 years after adoption
From The Journal Gazette: A former South Bend woman has something extra special to be thankful for this year. She’s been reunited with the her biological son who was adopted by another family four decades ago. Pregnant as a teenager in 1963, Christine Horvath Watkins was sent to the St. Agnes Foundling Home in Kalamazoo, [...]
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