Is Anyone Else Apart From Adoptees?

Question

denied their 14th Amendment right to equal protection and their First Amendment right to equal access to vital information?

If your answer is Yes, please explain who else is denied these rights.

Do you think this is discriminatory ?

Answer 1

After reading both the 1st & 14th Amendments, I don't quite understand how these apply to adoptees?  Can you please clarify your question?  

The 1st Amendment is about freedom of speech, assembly & religion.  I can't find anything about access to vital information in there.

Regarding the 14th Amendment, what rights to equal protection are being denied?  

The 4th Amendment includes this statement  ..."or be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law."  Are OBC's considered "property"?  If so, adoptees' are being denied our OBC's.  

The 14th Amendment relates to illegal search & seizure.  Can withholding OBC from adult adoptees be considered a type of illegal seizure?

A friend of my explained it this way, "They are also violating my right to privacy because the state government is intruding into my life & denying my right to my papers, which every non adopted individual has access to."  

I believe a more accurate view of the OBC issue involves NATURAL RIGHTS - that is: "the rights of the individual, and considered beyond the authority of a future government or international body to dismiss."

I submit that our OBC's should be a NATURAL RIGHT. These should not be something the government can decide to "allow" us to have, or not have.

Hope this is useful...

Answer 2

LC,

   You are another person on here that takes great delight in making sure adoptees do not have access to their records.

Having open records will be so great. It will enable the adoptee to have access to important medical information so they can be pro-active about their health. For those adoptees that want to know their hertiage they can find information on that. Also for those adoptees who want to search for their biological family they can have information on that.

TO ME PEOPLE WHO SEE THE NEED FOR NO REFORMS(LIKE MR. LC ABOVE) ARE ANTI-ADOPTION AND THEY ARE DISCRIMINATORY!!!

Answer 3

I can't answer your question but I'd like to pose it in another way, if you don't mind;

If we were to change "adopted persons" to, say, "African Americans" or "Hispanics" or "Asians" were being denied their original birth certificates for the exact same reason, wouldn't that be HUGELY discriminatory?

Why is our adoptee status any better (or more legal) reason to deny us our records?  If it was based on our nationality or the color of our skin, we'd have a basis for a major lawsuit.  So how is it any different being based on the circumstances of our births?

Answer 4

Please explain your claim.  How have you been denied either of these?

Answer 5

slaves were.....i repeat WERE.