ABOUT EA 4 A:

This website exists to educate the public

to the issues facing adoption-separated

people and what needs to be done to

rectify the denial of their equality.

It also exists as a place for adoption

reform activists to network and share

resources for obtaining equal rights

for adopted citizens.

NATIONAL ADOPTEE

RIGHTS DAY:

JULY 28

SIGN THE PETITION

Read the text here, but you must

go to the Petition Website to sign.

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"In our democracy, near equality

is no equality. Government either

treats everyone the same, or it doesn't.

And right now, it doesn't...The question

for every ... lawmaker is: Do you want

to be remembered as a leader on

civil rights? Or an obstructionist."

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg

speaking about marriage equality,

Friday, May 27, 2011.

Totally applicable to American adoptees.

EQUAL ACCESS

FOR ADOPTEES:

What's It All About?

Adopted citizens are discriminated

against. They are denied the same

right as non-adopted citizens to

access their own birth certificates.

The birth certificates of adopted

persons are sealed from them.

This is discrimination and a civil rights

violation.

There are medical and other

repercussions that put this segment of the

population - and their children - at risk.

"...it's about providing legal and

moral equality for a segment of

our population that is not generally

perceived as deprived of any

rights: the approximately 7

million Americans who were

adopted into their families.

"And the right denied to most of

them is so basic that it almost

sounds like a joke: access to their

own original birth certificates."

"We should care, and we should

feel outraged, for the same

reason so many men supported

suffrage for women and so many

white Americans joined the civil

rights struggle -- because we

should find it offensive when any

minority group in society is

deprived of equal rights."

"A Civil Right: Adoptees Should

Have Access to Their Birth

certificates." Adam Pertman,

adoptive father, author, and

Executive Director of the Evan

B. Donaldosn Adoption Institute,

Jan. 11, 2011, Huffington Post.