- Target:
- Congress
- Region:
- United States of America
This petition will help create a bill that will allow adoptees to obtain important, and sometimes critical, personal and medical information about their health history. Every individual should have the right to information that affects their health if it is available.
Not having access to this information robs the adoptees of critical information which could put them at increased risk of disease and mortality. Adoptions can sometimes cause; behavioral, mental and emotional problem for adoptees (even when they are happy with their adoptive family) which is magnified by the lack of personal health information. This bill (if passed) will help make adoption less painful and complicated for adoptees.
It is typically very difficult for adoptees to get: family history, medical history, ethnic background and circumstances of adoption information which could negatively impact their health and well-being. This bill will help make it easier for them to get that information.
This bill (if passed) shall allow all adult (age 18 and over) adoptees and/or the adoptive parents/guardians of a minor (less than 18 years of age) adoptee the right to have access to their medical and personal information from the biological parents/parent.
Medical and personal information includes but not limited to; an address, name or names of family members, ethnic background, family health history (physical and psychological) and circumstances of the adoption.
Biological parents will still be able to ''safe haven'' their kids under the condition that they register this information. ONLY ADOPTEES AND/OR THEIR PARENTS/GUARDIANS WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. Biological parents/parent will still have the right to refuse reunion as-well.
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The Support an Adoption Accountability Act petition to Congress was written by Cassie Sipe and is in the category Civil Rights at GoPetition.