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Adoptees have the right to know their birth parents
National Post
Published: Tuesday, September 25, 2007
I was born, then I was adopted — how does this make me a potential criminal capable of harming my mother? What the public is hearing is that one percent of the population are denied their identity because a mother needs to be protected — her daughter or son may cause her harm and destroy her life. This the highest form of discrimination and character defamation imaginable.
Certain citizens of this province are deemed a threat to others — they are suspects of a crime which has not been committed — and are considered capable of inflicting harm upon another human being just because they are adopted.
Ontario encourages openness, honesty and diversity among its citizens, yet it is acceptable to classify adopted people as a distinct group from whom others need protection, to the point of presumed potential victims requiring anonymity.
Michelle Edmunds, Toronto.
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I wish to point out that NO MOTHER was a client of Clayton Ruby who was the lawyer opposing this law.
In fact, he was SO desperate for a mother to step forward that he MADE UP a story about a “Catholic Matron”. He has admitted that this story is NOT true and that he made it up (so that the public – including some people here – think it was a mother when it was NOT).
It was an ALLEGED father who abandoned the mother and denied paternity of his (alleged) first born.
When his (alleged) first born contacted him via the Ontario Adoption Disclosure agency, this COWARD refused to give him the time of day, never mind a DNA test just to prove one way or another IF he was the father.
Now he does not want the wife to know he was a cad!!!
The law is not there to protect lying cads!!!
The judge should have ordered a DNA test.
If this so-called father refused this or continued denying paternity, then he should NOT have been in that courtroom – period.
The whole thing is a farce of justice.