By Trace A. DeMeyer
OKLAHOMA CITY — According to reports by the Associated Press this week, an Oklahoma House committee advanced a bill that would allow adult adoptees to have copies of their original birth certificates.
The bill from OK Rep. Wade Rousselot (Wagoner-D) would allow adopted adults (and their descendants) to request their birth certificates and know their natural parents' names. The House Human Services Committee approved the bill without opposition Monday, meaning it will head to the full House of Representatives.
Rousselot told the AP that he proposed the bill mostly so that adoptees would be able to trace their medical history. He claims many adoptees aren't interested in pursuing their parents after learning their names. (REALLY!? Who is this guy?)
Under his proposal, natural parents would be able to specify whether they'd like to be contacted by their child under the proposal. Sadly, this is not the bill any adoptee would want but these politicans never ask us, do they! (WTH!)
States who offer birth certificates and access to our adoption records should not have any conditions or vetoes or parental consents. It's OUR identity, OUR ancestry and OUR families. That representative is obviously not an adoptee.
One can only hope that Oklahoma joins the other eight states with open adoption records SOON!
It could be a contact preference form like Oregon did that was not a veto. Yes to contact, Yes through an intermediary, No contact (not the right words) but that was given to the adult adoptee with their OBC but was not binding. Believe they had to or were encouraged to fill out a medical history form if they said no - can't remember the specifics.
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