Former Maine State Senator and current Executive Director of AdopteeCARE (Adoptee Council for Adoption Reform Education), Paula Benoit, has recently returned home to Maine after spending a week in Albany, New York.
Discussing the importance of all American born adult adoptees having access to their original identity with 51 State Legislators and/or their legislative staff members, the response was overwhelmingly supportive of New York legislation allowing adult adoptees access to their original birth certificates.
She will be returning to Albany the first week of March to continue the work of AdopteeCARE.
In addition to New York legislation allowing access, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Missouri and California are currently working on access legislation.
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Hi Paula,
ReplyDeleteI spoke with a member of last year's Judiciary Committee, Hon. Bonnie Gould, and she said she would not habve voted for Maine's law without your honest and open testimony before her committee.Keep up the great work!!!!
Mary