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ARTICLE TAG
4/14/2021
The Imprint staff reports
This could be the year that nearly 1 million Texas adoptees can get a copy of their original birth certificate without asking a judge. Texas adoptees said attempts to pass a measure making it easier for them to obtain the document have fallen short time and again in recent years.
2/17/2021
Michael Fitzgerald
Adoptees say receiving their original birth certificates is opening up profound feelings of relief and closure. Stephanie Staats, who was adopted in New York, moments after seeing her pre-adoption birth certificate for the first time.
11/19/2019
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) ended decades of secrecy around adoptions in New York on Thursday, signing a landmark reform bill to allow adult adoptees unrestricted access to their original birth certificates.
3/8/2013
Opinion
Guest Writer
by Julie Stromberg When the adoption of a child is finalized in the United States, the adoptee’s original birth certificate is altered (amended) to list the adoptive parents as if they are the adoptee’s biological parents.
