The Adoptee Rights Demonstration

Mission Statement:

If you are a non adopted person obtaining your birth certificate is a simple process that you can do through any vital records office in the state in which you were born.

Infact, hearing the term “original birth certificate” wouldn’t make sense to you, because you only have ONE birth certificate.

Although adopted people were only born “once” as well, we are denied access to our birth certificates and expected to settle for fake or “amended” ones in return. Once our adoptions have been finalized( in the United States ), the state seals our REAL birth certificates and replaces them with new ones which ommit and falsify many details.

We believe that EVERY adoptee should have unencumbered access to information about his or her identity, including access to his or her original birth certificate, medical records, and social history. Adoptee Rights believes that limits on such access are a violation of a person’s basic human rights, and that equality demands that adult adoptees be afforded the same freedom of access granted to every other American citizen today regardless of what country they were born in and adopted from.

We at Adoptee Rights also do not support the private adoption industry in the United States. We do not believe in the uneccessary separation of families, nor do we support agencies attempting to meet infant quotas (ie the bringing in of mothers to surrender their children in order to fullfill the demand of white newborns from couples seeking to adopt.) Nor do we support the racial financial barriers created by the industry which puts different dollar amounts on children available for adoption, depending on their age and race.

Until unlimited equal access to all of our records is granted to adoptees, until racial barriers in adoption are non existant, until private adoption agencies cease to exist, we will be here changing the laws which bind us, and working twords equality for all adopted people.

We at Adoptee Rights advocate the rights of children. We believe all children are created equal and should be treated equal by the Industry of Adoption in the United States of America and through out the world.

We support the Child Rights Treaty of the United Nations and urge the United States of America to enforce this treaty and abide by its laws as all other countries in the world except somalia do.

We encourage all who are interested in reading further on the sealed records issue to download the following pdf document and read an outline of sealed records in the United States by Ethica.