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Proposal Details

Proposal ID	815
Proposal	2016 Platform Amendment Proposal Adoptee Rights
Presenter	Platform Committee Sponsored by Green Party of New York
Floor Manager	Jan Martell
Phase	Closed
Discussion	04/04/2016 - 04/17/2016
Voting	04/18/2016 - 04/24/2016
Result	Adopted
Presens Quorum	32 0.6666
Consens Quorum	45 0.6666 of Yes and No Votes

Background

None

Proposal

To create a new, numbered plank within:
Chapter II, Social Justice
Section A, Civil Rights and Equal Rights

11. Adoptee Rights

Due to current laws millions of adults that were adopted as children are now being denied access to vital records regarding their births. This is a basic human right that the Green Party should be committed to help in abolishing the secrets and lies that surround many adoptions around the world by creating necessary transparency between adoptees, their mothers and adoptive parents.
Reform items include the following:

a. Immediate and direct access to all identifying birth, hospital, foster care and adoption agency records and files concerning the adult adoptee (including the original adoption plans and any contracts that pertain to the adoptee or in which they are mentioned) to assist with researching their genealogy, medical history and the truth regarding the circumstances surrounding their adoptions and, if applicable, their time in foster care.

b. Strict financial penalties need to be enforced when birth/adoption records have been lost or destroyed while under the care of agencies, hospitals, lawyers, etc. that have assumed the responsibility of storing these vital records.

c. Full reparations for historical injustices in adoption.

Resources

Approval of this proposal will amend the 2016 Draft Platform, which will be approved by the GPUS 2016 Presidential Nominating Convention and published on the GPUS website in or before September, 2016.

References

CONTACT:
Platform Committee
Bruce Hinkforth, co-chair, bhinkforth@milwpc.com, 262-569-1370
Budd Dickinson, co-chair, budd.dickinson@gmail.com , 650-773-0438
James Lane, author and state contact, votejameslane@gmail.com, 917-865-2591
Gloria Mattera, state conatct, gmattera@gmail.com, 917-886-4538

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