Return Adult Adoptees the Right to their Original Birth Certificates

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The Fight to Free Adoption Records

February 1, 2010

Granting Adoptees Access to their OBC’s

Change.org has a nifty constest/ promo going on and adoptee rights has a nice place on it!

The 10 ideas that receive the most votes by the end of the competition will be presented at an event in Washington, DC to relevant officials in the Obama Administration. If the Adoptee Rights is among the top 10 ideas, it will then be promoted to Change.org’s entire community of more than 1 million members and across their network of bloggers to help turn it into reality.

It’s easy, and worth it, to join Change.org just for this alone, plus they do other good things! Then they make is really simple to tweet to friends, share on facebook, and email folks. Please take the five minutes and add your vote and your voice!

Can Adoptee’s Rights be in First Place?

This idea is currently in 2nd Place in Human Rights and is in position to make it into the final round. We have a wonderful vast network and huge community here, folks. let’s use this power we have to get some focus on this issue.. for ALL our children!

So clicky-cluick here: Return Adult Adoptees the Right to their Original Birth Certificates.

There is also a handy dandy little widget that you will see on my sidebar here, I believe you can sign in and vote right there! Or at least itr will take you where you need to go!

And, yes, you need to go there!.. so Go!

ETA: 2/3 Currently the adoptee rights OBC idea is Number ONE in Human RIghts catagory with 300 votes!

However, the TOP idea right now Don’t Sell Elections to the Highest Bidder has 932 points!So we STILL do not make the top 10!!
There is NO reason why we cannot be in the top 10! There is no reason why we cannot bve the NUMBER ONE IDEA! I KNOW there are over 100 web intelligent adoption folks who can make this happen!

There is also another adoptee one in Human Trafficking, Release Original Birth Certificates To Adoptees , but I am unsure if one can vote twice???

OK.. so to riterate:

The 10 most popular ideas will be presented at an event in Washington, DC to relevant members of the Obama Administration, and Change.org will subsequently mobilize its full community to support a series of grassroots campaigns to turn each idea into reality.

SO MAKE PEOPLE VOTE!!

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About the Author

Claudia Corrigan DArcy
Claudia Corrigan DArcy
Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy has been online and involved in the adoption community since early in 2001. Blogging since 2005, her website Musings of the Lame has become a much needed road map for many mothers who relinquished, adoptees who long to be heard, and adoptive parents who seek understanding. She is also an activist and avid supporter of Adoptee Rights and fights for nationwide birth certificate access for all adoptees with the Adoptee Rights Coalition. Besides here on Musings of the Lame, her writings on adoption issue have been published in The New York Times, BlogHer, Divine Caroline, Adoption Today Magazine, Adoption Constellation Magazine, Adopt-a-tude.com, Lost Mothers, Grown in my Heart, Adoption Voice Magazine, and many others. She has been interviewed by Dan Rather, Montel Williams and appeared on Huffington Post regarding adoption as well as presented at various adoption conferences, other radio and print interviews over the years. She resides in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband, Rye, children, and various pets.

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6 Comments on "Return Adult Adoptees the Right to their Original Birth Certificates"

  1. Anonymous | February 2, 2010 at 12:53 am |

    Thank you for posting this, Claudia!!!! You rock!!!!!!

    -Mara 🙂

  2. Anonymous | February 2, 2010 at 3:13 am |

    There is also one under Human Trafficking to Release Original Birth Certificates To Adoptees:

    http://www.change.org/ideas/view/release_original_birth_certificates_to_adoptees

  3. Anonymous | February 2, 2010 at 3:49 pm |

    DONE!!

    Denise

  4. Anonymous | February 3, 2010 at 12:42 am |

    Wouldn’t it be cool if both “ideas” for releasing adoptee birth records in the human rights and human trafficking sections went to the final round?

    Could you put the widget for the one in human trafficking on here, too?

  5. Anonymous | February 4, 2010 at 5:03 pm |

    You can vote as many times as you want. Please vote for the one in human trafficking, too. It doesn’t matter if they go head to head in the final round, because they are the same idea!!! Also, if we get more than one in the finals, it will be a huge wake up call for America’s naive public!

  6. senior living long island | September 5, 2011 at 9:40 am |

    Adoptees have the right to take their own original birth certificates. I’m glad they made this kind of law.

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