No Confidentiality Promised For Birthmothers

"As a matter of fact, the one thing I asked Easter House was to provide my daughter with my contact info when she turned of age, or if she ever needed it medically."

"i am a birthmother and i have searching for my daughter for over 20 year yes they should open the records i have been praying for them to open the records so i can find her.God Bless you all.Lillian Clark Rozell"

"I support this petition"

"I have always believed that the child that I lost to adoption has a 100% right to know her heritage whenever and wherever she choses. I did not want to hide my identity. My parents wanted anonymity from the shame they believed I caused them. I did not wan"

"It should be every humans right to know where they come from"

"We need open records for all Adult Adoptees in NY"

"I have my daughter's original birth certificate. She can have it whenever she wants. EVERY other adoptee has a right to the same."

"The majority of original mothers WANT to be found"

"I WANT TO FIND MY DAUGHTER SHE WAS BORN ON 9/8/1978 IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY N.Y. I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR HER FOR YEARS!!!!"

"I surrendered two children and both times I asked that the adoptions not be confidential but be open"

"i never wanted my name kept secret from my child. i always wanted her to know me"

"i was very young and gave my daughter up not knowing i could have help"

"I support this petition"

"Confidentiality may have been promised to adoptive parents but not to birthparents or adopted kids. They have a right to their birth information."

"It's about time!"

"I see that my comment (1281) does not show my email address even though I checked "Public." I would like to add it here: [email protected] /* */ The sealed records law is outdated. NO birthmorther wants these records sealed, and if they do, they need he"

"my separation was at birth-their were no"

"I support this petition"

"I never wanted confidentiality my son was abducted by adoption I always wanted my son they lied to me and stole my child OPEN THE RECORDS NOW it is time"

"I would like my son to know his birth family's health history. It is barbaric in this day and age to keep something so important from him!"

"Please I just want to know that she is everything I prayed for all of these years. I have shed many tears in hopes that someday we were ment to be a part of each others lives"

"At the time of surrender, I begged that my daughter and I might be able to find one another one day. We broke the "law" and were reunited in 1981."

"I was not promised confidentiality. Even though it was never even brought up, I specifically asked for quite the opposite. Additionally, all statistics prove that the theory of this need to protect birthmothers with confidentiality is unfounded. A mother'"

"ISO son born 09/09/1965, Rochester, NY, Northside Hospital"