The FIght for Adoption Records

The Fight to Free Adoption Records

If you haven’t heard, the South Dakota House of Representitives voted yes the other night with the vote as: YEAS 37, NAYS 32 on Senate Bill 153 to:

Provide procedures by which adopted persons may obtain their original birth certificates and the contact preference of birth parents aka: OPEN the ADOPTION RECORDS! Unseal the Original Birth Certificates!

Now before we get to ahead with the “whoo hoos” ( which I am guilty of myself) there is a small kicker…right after the web site gives a happy yeah.. we see:

03/10/2009 House of Representatives Do Pass Amended, Passed, YEAS 37, NAYS 32. H.J. 755
03/11/2009 Senate Failed to concur, appoint Conference Committee, Passed S.J. 733
03/11/2009 House of Representatives Conference Committee appointments H.J. 786

WTF????

Now, over at FirstMotherForums, Lorraine has put together a great quick email to copy and paste and to send to the South Dakota reps becasue, oh noo..

They are so worried about the birthmothers supposed RIGHT TO CONFIDENTIALITY!!

Once again, us birth mothers need to come on out and explain how we were not promised, didn’t ask for it, don’t need it, don’t want it and it’s all a load of bullshit anyway.

Go forth, write letters, send emails, speak truth!

In the meantime, as we prepare for Philly in July and the Fight for Adoption Records, the new Adoptee Protest Video has been released.

Hot Damn! Personally, I think it is super brilliant and the visual of the big red DENIED graphic is extremely powerful.

I love it and as Philly gets closer, I get more and more excited to go there and be part of this all.

The fight for Open Adoption Records must be won!

About the Author

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.