Are you a Michigan adoptee?

Question

Have you heard of Michigan HB 4896?

Its a bill in Michigan that would restore the rights to adoptees by giving them access to their records. It is a CLEAN BILL. Meaning it honors and restores our rights completely.

If you are in Michigan, or were adopted in Michigan or have surrendered a child in michigan, or adopted a child from Michigan and you support open records for adult adoptees, THEY NEED YOUR HELP.

Letters right now from all of the above will help pass this bill and give us one more state to check off of the list of sealed record states.

Get involved today!!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MichiganSearching/

Answer 1

Great! I hope the other 49 states follow suit. Thanks for letting us know, Gershom!

Answer 2

No I'm not.   But I'll be writing anyway.  People who believe in adoptee rights need to speak up or things will never change, the longer people are apathetic the longer things will take to change

Answer 3

me, me! im from michigan.

im gonna get on there soon and have my way with them. thanks for the link.

Answer 4

I am a Michigan adoptee!

I have my OBC, and I want every other adoptee in Michigan to have theirs, too.

I will be enlisting my mother to write a letter, because like every other surrendering mother I've known she was never promised anonymity from her own child.

Answer 5

Maybe it's before coffee that's the problem or maybe it's just my massive computer skills but I tried and they won't take me. They keep asking me for a name and everyone I give them is unacceptable to them. Help me get in and I'm all over it.

Answer 6

Thanks for letting us know.  I'll look into it!

Answer 7

oye u can add me on rune scape my name is meitanteikon.=p

Answer 8

My husband is the uncle of a Michigan person who was given up for adoption.  We don't know if she was ever adopted or not.  If the child was never adopted, then this right was never taken from her.  But, if she did get adopted, this right was taken from her.  She was born in 1974, so falls into the range of year in which adopted citizens are denied access to their birth certificates in Michigan.  My husband fully supports the restoration of these equal rights.

Just a note regarding aloha.girl's comment.  Six states have already either fully restored this right or never stripped it from adoptees in the first place.  (Kansas and Alaska have never denied adoptees access to the own birth certificates.)  

Let's end discrimination against adopted citizens and restore this right for all.

Answer 9

Nope, I'm not, but I sent out a bunch of letters in Dec to help get this one passed!