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Opening Adoption Record

By Laura Knoy on Wednesday, February 21, 2001.

A coalition of adoptees and birth parents is pushing for the right to open closed adoption records. This proposal can pit an adoptees' right to information against a birth parents' right to privacy. Joining Laura to talk about the issue are Donna Chagnon, president of the New Hampshire Open Adoption Records Coalition (NH OARC)and Jennifer Frizzell, Public Affairs Director for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. www.plannedparenthood.org/ppnne/

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