I think my letter to Roy Blunt pretty much says it all:

Dear Mr. Blunt,

I have read recently that you have been getting allot of flack for your desire for President Obama to produce his birth certificate. One of your quotes in particular has caught my attention.
You are quoted as saying:

“What I don’t know is why the president can’t produce a birth certificate. I don’t know anybody else that can’t produce one. And I think that’s a legitimate question.”

Maybe you do not know about any other groups of American’s who cannot produce their birth certificates, but I do.

They are called Adoptees; adults, whom with no choice of their own have been relinquished and adopted and are now denied their civil rights to their legal documentation.

That’s 6 Million Americans who don’t have their Birth Certificates either.

In fact, in your own home state of Missouri, you routinely deny your adult adoptees the rights to access their birth certificates. You should probably be concerned for them, too.

According to the Missouri statute under Adoption and Foster Care, Section 453.121, in order for identifying information to be released to an adoptee either born or adopted in Missouri, the biological parent must submit an affidavit.

But what if the searcher is unable to locate the birth parents? What if the birth parents are deceased and, therefore, unable to submit an affidavit?

“As the statute is written and interpreted right now, there must be an affidavit on file for the identifying information to be released,” said state Rep. Connie LaJoyce Johnson, D-St. Louis. “If there isn’t one or if it was misplaced for whatever reason, the court will deny the release of the information to the adoptee.” And then, they can’t produce that birth certificate that you are so concerned about.

Johnson sponsored House Bill No. 509, which, at the moment, sits dormant. The bill would modify sections 193.125 and 193.255 of Missouri’s adoption record policy, affording adoptees 18-and-older the right to obtain a certified copy of their original birth certificate, which, of course, would contain some identifying information of the birth parents including their names and birthplaces. Until then, no birth certificates can be produced.

Right now, in all but 8 states, adult adoptees are denied access to their original birth certificates under state law just because of the circumstances of their birth.

If you would really wanted to do this country a favor, you should would be concerned about them. In fact we all should care about the fight to open birth records.

Just something for you to think about.. and maybe, watch what you say!

Claudia Corrigan d’Arcy
http://www.musingsofthelame.com/

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I have notcied that this whole”Obama Birth Certifcate” conspiracy thing is geeting quite a bit of media play and attention. It’s a great opportunity to go to all the online sites and tell them about the Birth certificate issue facing Adoptees. Check out this one Google Search on “RoyBlunt Obama Birth Certificates” .

Take a few minutes.. click on the sites and make a profile. Then while they are hitting you main box for verification, write up a quick infomative response. Feel free to take any info from what I said above and then link if you can to the AdopteeRights.net. Then get to the articles, copy and past your response.. adn wala! Educational, infomational and a good use to time for this very important issue!