Yesterday, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted by overwhelming majority (223-103) to give adoptees the right to copies of their original birth certificates.
The bill also provides a mechanism for birth parents to approve (or not) the release of contact information to the children they lost to adoption.
Oregon, Tennessee, Delaware, Alabama, Kansas and Alaska already have open records laws, and these states have experienced none of the problems predicted by adoption industry lobbyists.
It’s interesting that the bill was sponsored by an adoptive father, Sen. Lou D