Comments on: “What dank political swamp have adoptees tripped into?” http://www.babylovechild.org/2008/05/09/what-dank-political-swamp-have-adoptees-tripped-into/ Yet another Bastard Blog Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:15:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Amyadoptee http://www.babylovechild.org/2008/05/09/what-dank-political-swamp-have-adoptees-tripped-into/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Amyadoptee Sun, 11 May 2008 16:46:45 +0000 http://www.babylovechild.org/2008/05/09/what-dank-political-swamp-have-adoptees-tripped-into/#comment-191 The further this goes in all the states, the dirtier I feel. I hate it that adoptees and their families are being used to further another's agenda. The further this goes in all the states, the dirtier I feel. I hate it that adoptees and their families are being used to further another’s agenda.

]]> By: Triona Guidry http://www.babylovechild.org/2008/05/09/what-dank-political-swamp-have-adoptees-tripped-into/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Triona Guidry Sat, 10 May 2008 13:27:45 +0000 http://www.babylovechild.org/2008/05/09/what-dank-political-swamp-have-adoptees-tripped-into/#comment-188 Thanks, Baby Love Child, for saying what others don't want to hear. We are not going to sit silently while those with a vested interest in sealed records use their power and influence to shape public policy. My adopted father used his influence as an attorney to obtain me from his college buddy the delivery doctor - what I call being adopted from the Good Ol' Boy agency. Rep. Huffman perpetuates this archaic oppression through his assumption that transacting adoptions makes him an authority. Only those of us who have lived adoption can tell you what it is like to be adopted, to be told you shouldn't know and shouldn't want to know, that if you do you're mental and need therapy, drugs, and Good Ol' Boys to tell you what's best. I am an adult, and I don't need anyone else to tell me whether or not I should have access to my information. That is a decision for me alone to make. It's outdating thinking like Rep. Huffman's that will die. There are too many of us who have been cast adrift, and we will not settle for less than equality. Thanks, Baby Love Child, for saying what others don’t want to hear. We are not going to sit silently while those with a vested interest in sealed records use their power and influence to shape public policy.

My adopted father used his influence as an attorney to obtain me from his college buddy the delivery doctor – what I call being adopted from the Good Ol’ Boy agency. Rep. Huffman perpetuates this archaic oppression through his assumption that transacting adoptions makes him an authority.

Only those of us who have lived adoption can tell you what it is like to be adopted, to be told you shouldn’t know and shouldn’t want to know, that if you do you’re mental and need therapy, drugs, and Good Ol’ Boys to tell you what’s best.

I am an adult, and I don’t need anyone else to tell me whether or not I should have access to my information. That is a decision for me alone to make. It’s outdating thinking like Rep. Huffman’s that will die. There are too many of us who have been cast adrift, and we will not settle for less than equality.

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