Grievances

The following is a list of grievances regarding closed-record terminal- adoption

laws.

Adoptee rights are primarily considered, however, other positions on parental

and state interests should be submitted.

This is a work in progress..

State- sponsored secrecy regarding adopted status violates the first

amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances by

hiding a potentially actionable personal fact and unjustly constraining the

exercise of that right. (This point applies to most personal information and

is basis for a fundamental "right to know". The right to "personal

information" represents a natural evolution of first amendment rights in an

age of information which will insure that human events are carried out in

healthy, ethical, humane and legal fashion.)

State- sponsored secrecy regarding adopted status violates due process

wherein existing rights and protections are removed without any offense on

the part of the relinquishee.

State- sponsored secrecy regarding adopted status violates due process in

placing a presumption of guilt and prior restraint upon relinquishees, there

natural families and upon all their future generations preventing or greatly

impeding legal, proper and truthful knowledge, speech and associations among

free people.

State- sponsored secrecy regarding adopted status violates the right to

peaceably assemble where suppression of personal information prevents or

impedes legal speech and associations among free people.

The states employ a damaging "suspect classification" upon "obvious,

immutable and disturbing" features of adoptees.

Familial strife or separation is "obvious" to the states, courts and

individuals partaking in the discriminatory practices.

Genetic identity and relatedness of relinquishees is "immutable".

And it is well known that many people hold familial isolation, closed

Adoption, open adoption, or adoptee searches as "disturbing".

Completing suspect classification is the political powerlessness of

Adoptees and the many rights compromised by the classification.

While the courts hold that birth status (illegitimacy) is not grounds for

Discrimination, the states impose "adopted" status (an exlegitimacy) as a

Basis for discriminatory treatment. The states sanction adoptees based on

Terminated and or adopted status. This constructed "illegitimacy" is equally

Discriminatory and entirely based on the acts and biases of others.

State law mandating suppression "except for good cause" violates the adoptee

Right to due process and equal protection in being too vague and subject to

Arbitrary interpretation.

The states fail equal treatment of adoptees in many cases by issuing unequal

Birth records not valid for matters such as obtaining a passport.

The states violate the right of privacy by sequestering and falsifying

Personal information and imposing upon adoptees a life completely separated

From all hereditary bonds and a shameful, intolerant atmosphere of secrecy.

The states produce fraudulent or deceptive records of birth violating

Adoptee's equal state and constitutional rights to know of legal proceedings

Against them.

The states violate Equal treatment with regard to accuracy, completeness and

originality of available state sponsored personal and public information.

The states violate basic liberties supporting views, practice and policy

regarding adoptees as "property" and upholding adoption as the constructive

sale of humans + anonymity in exchange for service of childcare.

Mandated "closed records" violates 13th amendment baring involuntary

servitude by presenting unreasonable and unnecessary spiritual and communal

demands upon the adopties.

The states violate due process by imposing "best interests" (sic)

restrictions upon which adoptee interests may be considered and

unconstitutionally favoring deprivation of rights to personal information

and kinship.

The states fail freedom of religion violating fundamental and established

beliefs and practices in which heritage, relatedness and freedom of familial

Associations are vital for the personal, practical and spiritual conduct of

"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".

The states violate equal protection of parental custody and visitation laws

applied non-adopted people.

Legislative enactment of secrecy regarding adopted status violates

constitutional separation of powers wherein legislated suppression may

impede or prohibit knowledge necessary to "petition for redress of

grievances" in another other branch of government.

The states commit unreasonable seizure of personal information. Such

information is both joint and several intangible properties which is

interpreted with regard to only one imbalance set of interests (favoring

secrecy), disfavoring the weaker and entirely innocent adoptee.

Effects on other parties:

Sealed adoption records violate the fundamental rights of liberty and

pursuit of happiness by preventing and impeding common, natural, legal

actions and associations of free people including those of countless future

generations.

Open adoption, as life choice, is effectively illegal in the United States.

The states force closed records and termination (violation) of innate

personal heredity. These human rights abuses cannot exist without an impact

on society. Suppressed records policy promotes:

fraud, coercion and abuse.

degradation of family values.

views of children as property.

devaluation natural family bonds.

unhealthy denial in adoptive families.

limited care options for children in institutions.