Adopted people will finally get access to records after President signs Bill into law

File photo of President Michael D Higgins. Image: RollingNews.ie File photo of President Michael D Higgins. Image: RollingNews.ie PRESIDENT MICHAEL D Higgins has signed into law the legislation to provide adopted people access to their information.

The Bill provides for the release of an adopted person’s birth certificate, baptism cert, birth information, early life information, and medical information, as well as the release of information to a next-of-kin of an adopted person who has since died.While some people have welcomed the passage of the Bill, others have said it does not go far enough in terms of access to records.

Campaigners criticised certain elements of the draft legislation when the Heads of Bill were published last year. The term ‘birth mother’ was subsequently changed to ‘mother’ in the text after some activists labelled the former term reductive. This session has since been changed to a phone call, rather than an in-person meeting. However, activists have criticised this approach – saying it is unnecessary and demeaning to explain the concept of privacy to an adopted person.

As if he was the good guy.. remember he also signed into law last year the law that prohibited people who refused to take an untrialled failed vaccine to go into a restaurant ..

As they should be entitled to ...

Notmypresident

So the state leans in favour of the rights of someone given up for adoption by their parents BUT rules in favour of the parent to kill the fetus before birth… I have no opinion on this but an interesting conundrum 🤔

Abducted you mean?

Not before time ,it must be horrendous not knowing anything about your birth family

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