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Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Dear President Obama: Please Consider the rights of the adopted

Demonstrating for the right of identity
Dear President Obama:

It was gratifying to hear you mention Seneca Falls (women's voting rights), Selma (African-American rights) and Stonewall (gay rights) yesterday, reminding the world of the progress made--and yet to be made--in giving all individuals their right to be free and equal to all. But there was one group sorely missing, and whose rights are being violated on a daily basis: the adopted.

The vast majority of them--somewhere between six and eight million--do not have the clear and unfettered right to learn their true identities. That