Adult Adoptee's Demand Their Original Birth Certificates
Please support and promote this petition:Adult Adoptees are an invisible minority. They inhabit 10% of the world's population, are young and old, blend into every race, are comprised of both men and women, heterosexual and homosexual, yet they are denied the most fundamental rights of all, true identity and heritage. Adult adoptees are treated like children by all but four of the United States. We hope to change that, with your help. There are only 4 states in the USA (Alabama, Alaska, Kansas, and Oregon) that provide adoptees unconditional access to their original birth certificates.

Allow me to explain the problem. When a closed adoption occurs, the original birth certificate is sealed and hidden. Some adoptees after 1983 enjoyed open adoptions, but the majority of adoptions are still closed. A fictionalized birth certificate with a new name, new parents and false delivery physician signatures is what adoptees are permitted to access through vital statistics. Adoptees have no access to medical records, ethnic heritage, or a consistent biological history.

A petition has been developed to bring awareness to legislators and the public by insisting that adoptees in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, at or over that state's age of majority, and by the adoptee's choice, may possess their original birth certificates. Slavery was abolished with a constitutional amendment, and it was through an amendment that women were empowered to vote. Please sign this petition that demands an "Adoptees' Amendment", and help restore an invisible minority to equal status. "All men were created equal..." yet under the current political climate, adoptees are not. The Constitution records that all citizens have the right to life.

It also states that all

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persons have their rights to property. By denying Adoptee's their Original Birth certificates, medical records, and other adoption information, the State Governments are denying adoptee's their rights to property. They are being denied access to, or possession of, the Original Birth Certificates, and personal medical records that every other citizen in this country is entitled to. They are therefore suffering discrimination as a class of citizen and their Civil Rights are being denied them. Many adoptees are being denied their right to LIFE because they are refused necessary medical information that is relevant to their health and welfare.

This information which provides them with genetic predisposition to diseases that may cause harm to their lives is not accessible to the adopted person, in preference of closed adoption records. The United States of America has not ratified the United Nations' "Convention of the Child", which includes international law regarding the sale of children, as well as on the involvement of children in armed conflict. Out of all the countries in the world, the USA remains one of three countries, together with Somalia and Timor-Leste (which newly became a country in September of 2002), that is not a party to this human rights treaty. Civil Rights for Adoptees in America is about Human Rights that all Americans should care about. Please join the thousands of other citizens who would like to see an end to the unconstitutional treatment of adoptees as separate and unequal.

Please visit the web address below. It will take you to the petition, which can be signed, online. When you are through, please consider referring others to the petition.http://obc.2ya.com.