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For nearly 50 years, Bob Brown longed to know the identity of his birth mother. Adopted as a baby, he wondered if learning who his birth parents were would help him understand the man he'd become. So when a new Illinois law allowed adoptees to
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Illinois officials say theyve received more than 4,000 applications from adoptees seeking copies of their original birth certificates since a new law went into effect. Generally, original birth certificates are sealed and new ones are issued when
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For much of her life, the Lansing resident has been fighting for the rights of adopted children to access their original birth records. On Tuesday, a law giving adoptees born after 1945 the right to obtain their original birth certificates took
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An change in Illinois law is expected to throw open the doors this week for adoptees to obtain the names of their birth parents in that state. When adoptions are final it is customary to issue a new birth certificate to the adoptive parents and seal
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Society to register the information I had regarding her birth. I felt that if she wanted to contact me, I wanted to be easy for her to find...I was in high school when I relinquished her and knew in my heart she would have a much better life with two
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Adopted adults would be able to obtain a copy of their original birth certificate disclosing their parents' names under a bill that won final legislative passage Monday, 31 years after advocates began waging the battle as a matter of civil rights.
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Responding to critics' relentless claims, President Barack Obama on Wednesday produced a detailed Hawaii birth certificate in an extraordinary attempt to bury the issue of where he was born and confirm his legitimacy to hold office...Though his
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Lost in the renewed scrutiny into President Barack Obama's birth records is the fact that anyone can walk into a Hawaii vital records office, wait in line behind couples getting marriage licenses and open a baby-blue government binder containing
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David Weprin proposed new legislation, the Adoptee Bill of Rights, at City Hall on Sunday. The bill would provide adults who were adopted as children with a legal right to access their original birth certificate...Under the current New York law, an
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I traveled to Ukraine to adopt our child and to make our family, after 10 years of infertility treatments and efforts to adopt in the United States. During these visits to the Boyarka Baby Orphanage outside Kiev, we met and visited with our son,
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