Link: IL Adoption Law
Illinois has a new Adoption Law: We'll be able to get our original birth certificates
Next November 15, 2011, I'll be able to send letters for myself and Husband and we'll be able, barring formally-filed objections from birth parents, to obtain our original birth certificates. We'll be able to see the records of our birth before the government created, as our primary document of origin and citizenship, an officially-falsified document. We'll be able to see the names of our original parents, our own original names. (In my case, I have most of that.)
We might be able to contact Husband's birth parents and find out medical information, let his birth mother know he's okay, get more medical background for our kids, etc.
I'm really thrilled, and I want to send a thank you letter to fellow adoptee and legislator Sara Feigenholtz, who has pushed and pushed for this for years until she won it for all of us.
ETA: Oh...and the subversive part of me wants then to go to AZ with BOTH birth certificates, get pulled over, and say, "See? I'm a citizen. Twice. Pick one!" Because, seriously? I know TWO people who could (even if we were brown enough to get pulled over) prove citizenship regularly: taraljc and me, because we carry our passports because we're dorks.
Next November 15, 2011, I'll be able to send letters for myself and Husband and we'll be able, barring formally-filed objections from birth parents, to obtain our original birth certificates. We'll be able to see the records of our birth before the government created, as our primary document of origin and citizenship, an officially-falsified document. We'll be able to see the names of our original parents, our own original names. (In my case, I have most of that.)
We might be able to contact Husband's birth parents and find out medical information, let his birth mother know he's okay, get more medical background for our kids, etc.
I'm really thrilled, and I want to send a thank you letter to fellow adoptee and legislator Sara Feigenholtz, who has pushed and pushed for this for years until she won it for all of us.
ETA: Oh...and the subversive part of me wants then to go to AZ with BOTH birth certificates, get pulled over, and say, "See? I'm a citizen. Twice. Pick one!" Because, seriously? I know TWO people who could (even if we were brown enough to get pulled over) prove citizenship regularly: taraljc and me, because we carry our passports because we're dorks.