Okay check out CNN!! http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/11/12/adoption.birthrecords.ap/index.html
ACLU has taken on a new cause not to let adoptees access to adoption records. I want to know your thoughts! This is outrageous!! ACLU says it pushes birth parents into unwanted relationships with their childeren?!!
2007-11-12 03:50:46 · 14 answers · asked by a healing adoptee 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Adoption
Okay elle dee! I'm not promoting anti-adoption agenda here. I want to know why they would deny adoptees the right to get in contact with their birth parents. If they stand for civil liberies then they should stand for our rights as adoptees too!
2007-11-12 04:02:18 · update #1
Amiee M- When some adoptees get of age they want to know some information. Sometimes it's medical information. I think that when we get of age to understand the consquences of searching for our birth family, then we should have access to these records. Please don't shot any one down that is just wondering.
2007-11-12 05:58:24 · update #2
I found some curious things at this website. If any wants to go to it. http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/research/2007_11_for_records.php
Oh, and for those of you who say that some of these comments are anti-adoption because they want to see their records. You are not being fair! These people have a right to be curious of where they came from. I don't think they are being anti-adoption because they want to see their original birth certificate.
2007-11-12 08:21:25 · update #3
Aime M, I'm confused about your answer. This is about adoptees having access to their records. If they don't want to look, they don't have to. But shouldn't they have the rights everyone else has? This isn't about forcing adoptees back to their birth parents. This is about giving them access to the records that EVERY OTHER American citizen has access to.
And for those that think this about anti-adoption, how is open records anti-adoption? Is there something in those records you think will get the agencies into trouble?
I'm very puzzled by some of these comments... If I don't think everything about adoption is perfect, does that mean I'm anti-adoption? I don't think I'm anti-adoption. But I'm not going to pretend I don't think there are complexities here that are sometimes missed in the discussion.
2007-11-12 08:04:31 · answer #1 · answered by blank stare 6 · 9⤊ 0⤋
Yup, ACLU is scum on this issue.
They've swallowed the line that open records=forced relationships.
Really, I am still waiting for someone to tell me how giving someone a slip of paper with some info on it forces a relationship?
Actually, I'm wondering how ANY relationship can be forced? Doesn't it take two people agreeing and reciprocating to have a relationship?
The funny thing is, I'm a mom who relinquished a child, and no one EVER asks me if I'm for or against open records. You'd think, if everyone was so concerned about "protecting our privacy," they might bother to find out first whether we actually WANT that "privacy" (ummm, anonymity).
Oh that's right. This isn't about us at all. It's about keeping the industry's pockets lined.
Silly me.
Edited to add: Hey David, guess what? I was never promised anonymity. Neither were the other hundred or so relinquishing moms that I know, either. It's a lie that we were promised anonymity, and it's a lie that we want it. Most of us want open records.
2007-11-12 12:08:57 · answer #2 · answered by concerned 3 · 9⤊ 1⤋
David, the confidentiality was never legal, and it was first put in place to A) protect adoptees from the stigma of illegitimacy and B) to protect adoptive parents from interference by the first family. To turn things around now and say it was to "protect" the one party it was not meant to protect, the first mother, really is changing the rules...and retroactively so.
First parents have the same rights to not be harrassed or stalked by their offspring (or anyone else!) as every other American citizen--no more, no less.
But I have no right to my own birth certificate. I don't have the same rights as every other American citizen. I find the ACLU's stance on this issue deplorable.
I know that relinquishing me for adoption was not easy, and that it was a source of shame for my birth mother. But that doesn't supercede my basic rights.
2007-11-12 04:48:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 12⤊ 1⤋
no longer interior the least, yet in basic terms through fact i've got been in touch in reform for a number of years, so i'm used to this. The ACLU in lots of states has antagonistic open information, as produce different companies which incorporate NOW. some companies attempt to link open information to "reproductive rights." it somewhat is a hell of a stretch to attempt to further a political schedule!
2016-10-02 04:51:08 · answer #4 · answered by trimble 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Civil Liberties Union promoting the denial of Civil Liberties - that one just takes the biscuit
How is it anti-adoption for adoptees to have equal rights to their own information now? How do you make protesting civil and human rights violations anti-adoption - Geez
2007-11-12 04:37:41 · answer #5 · answered by H****** 7 · 12⤊ 2⤋
It seems to me that they are ignoring the rights of many (adoptees) in order to protect the wishes of few (first parents denying contact).
I don't love all the things I learned about my biological family once I found them but I had the right as an american citizen to know the information.
I have been denied my medical history my entire life and it has effected my children negatively. My older son's asthma went undiagnosed by doctors because we had no family medical history of it. I had to demand and push to get them to recognize his asthma and get him the treatment he needed. He almost died once as an infant.
It turns out that asthma runs strongly in my biological family. if I had that info years ago, it would have made our lives easier.
Adoptees should have the right to their medical histories and birth information.
2007-11-12 04:30:09 · answer #6 · answered by Isabel A 4 · 16⤊ 1⤋
The reason why these records were sealed in the first place was because illegitmate births were once considered very shameful and it was a way for the birthparents to make a fresh start and go on with their lives. You say that adoptees have a right to see their records but what about the birthparents? Many birthparents do NOT want to be contacted by the children they gave up for adoption. For them, what's past is past and they do not want to revisit a period in their lives that was often very painful and traumatic for them. Don't you think they have a right to privacy if that's what they want? Some adoptees are very persistent and will ignore their wishes to be left alone.
2007-11-12 18:27:09 · answer #7 · answered by RoVale 7 · 1⤊ 8⤋
This is not NEW.
Planned Parenthood doesn't support adoptees, either.
2007-11-12 04:29:56 · answer #8 · answered by Sunny 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
American Civil Liberties Union, but it should be the FLCLU,Far Left Civil Liberties Union.And their ultimate goal is Communism,just wait and see.
2007-11-12 03:58:35 · answer #9 · answered by Ronboy 3 · 6⤊ 5⤋
American Civil Liberty's Union. <}:-})
2007-11-12 03:57:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋