Spreading the word on the petition for adoptees’ rights in New York State:
Tag: New York State Bills A9959-B; and S-7631-B
Re-Blogging: Don’t Keep Adopted People in the Dark – New York Times
Re-bloging from the New York Times…
Tim Monti-Wohlpart could see the differences between him and his adoptive family from an early age. He had olive skin and black hair; they were fair. But he wasn’t compelled to seek more information about his background until medical issues in his mid-twenties galvanized him to learn more about his birth family.
Because he was adopted in New York State in 1971, he had no legal right to such information.
It would take Mr. Monti-Wohlpart two years and several thousand dollars in private investigators’ fees in the late 1990s to find his birth mother and father, and learn more about his history. For years since then, Mr. Monti-Wohlpart, a Brooklyn teacher and co-founder of the New York Adoptee Rights Coalition, has been working to allow adopted New Yorkers access to nearly 650,000 original birth certificates. “I believe it’s a fundamental human right to know where you came from,” Mr. Monti-Wohlpart said.
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ReBlogging Lorraine Dusky: Human rights going down again in New York
Reblogging this from Lorraine Dusky:
Human rights going down again in New York; Sometimes anger is justified and this is one of those times!!!
I am so f&^cking angry and upset. This is not a regular blog post but instead I want to tell you why I am so angry, Dear Reader.
Again it appears the 2018 legislative session will end in New York, and again we are getting shot down in New York–unless Joe Lentol, chair of the Codes Committee in the Assembly, is struck by thunder and enlightenment, unless the what’s-in-it-for-me governor of New York, Cuomo, sees a political advantage in our bill over the next few days, our bill to end the tyranny of sealing original birth records of some people will again die.
It is a clean bill–no hide-behind-the-skirts of women in the closet bill; no, the bill, (A9959-B; and S-7631-B)) would give adopted people over 18 the right to their own birth certificates. That’s all it would do. It wouldn’t bomb anybody, cause panic in the streets, destroy the environment, cost an appreciable amount or anything at all, but no, once again some people will lose out of the full freedoms that the rest of us know because we are: not adopted.
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FORBIDDEN FAMILY 