Tuesday, March 29, 2005

~ open adoption records in New Jersey ~

Here's an obvious question about access to adoption records in New Jersey, presented in the Ashury Park Press.

In opposing adoptees' access to their birth certificates, Deborah Jacobs, executive director of ACLU-NJ, mentions due process and privacy issues due to promised confidentiality.Why does ACLU-NJ, which vigorously advocates "open and transparent government," oppose open and transparent adoption, where a child exchanges families and is thereafter denied the truth of her/his origins?



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