Adoptees' bid for access to birth certificates stirs debate
Monday, July 10, 2017
Back in 2000, Oregon and Alabama acted to ensure people who had been adopted could get access to their original birth certificates. Advocates of that goal, calling it an overdue recognition of basic rights, hoped the trend would sweep through the nation.
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