Here's what Deb S., had to say in response to the article titled"Fight Over Adoption Secrecy."
Deb wrote:
End adoption secrecy
As your editorial "Fight over adoption secrecy" (Feb. 22) points out,
there are many sides to the debate over adult adoptees' birth records.
Unfortunately, Time magazine and your editorial
chose to highlight dramatically just one of those sides:
the rights of a raped birth mother.
There are equally dramatic and more prevalent
situations on the other side of the equation.
The most compelling argument in this debate is the human right of adult adoptees
to have access to vital information about themselves and their background
— including medical heritage and ethnicity —
no matter the circumstances of their birth.
This basic information is of public record for every other citizen.
With no help from the current law or system,
I discovered that every female over the age of 35
on both sides of my birth family either suffered or died from breast cancer,
a genetically predisposed disease.
This is information that is vital to myself and our daughter,
due to be born in two weeks.
Yet some will continue to argue that my birth mother's privacy is more important.
As a 38-year-old, concerned about my family's well-being, I beg to differ.
Deb Schwarz
San Francisco
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