CT House votes to grant all adoptees access to birth records
SUSAN HAIGH, Associated Press
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The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to grant all adoptees in Connecticut access to their birth certificates, following an emotional and personal debate over whether the privacy rights of certain birth parents should trump those of adoptees seeking information about their past.
The bill passed on a bipartisan vote of 115 to 28. It now awaits action in the state Senate.
Current state law allows access to original birth certificates for people, 18 years and older, whose adoptions were finalized on or after Oct. 1, 1983. That's the date when the state adoption form was changed and a clause added, warning that birth parents' identities could be disclosed.