On March 5, 2008, the House Select Committee will be meeting in the Legislative Office Building in room 544 At this meeting, Adam Pertman from the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute will be there. Adam is the well known author of Adoption Nation, and also publicist with the Boston Globe. He is an adoptive father who has been behind adoptees right for several years.
Adam will be talking about the other states which already have access to the original birth certificate, and how the contact preference form that a lot of the states is working. A lot of people say that the contact preference form has no legal ramifications, but it has actually proved in the states where it has been used not to need any.
If you read this and are associated with adoption in any way and would like to see NC be the next state which grants access to the original birth certificate, please join us on March 5, down at the LOB in room 544.
Roberta MacDonald - Chairwoman of the NC Coalition for Adoption Reform & NC State Representative to the American Adoption Congress.
