Adoptees all over this country are beginning to have issues with their amended birth certificates. Adoptees are having issues with getting passports. I know that I would have an issue because my birth certificate doesn't have a complete date of file. Then there are folks who don't know or understand the differences of amended birth certificates in comparison to original birth certificates. Adoptees are also not being allowed into the military because of the differences in the birth certificates of adoptees. Aren't adoptees American citizens? Why are we beginnning to see more and more denial of our rights and responsibilities?
Indiana, my birth state, is now requiring identification for voting. If an older adoptee or a poor adoptee doesn't have a state ID or another form of picture ID, then have to use their birth certificate. Indiana's amended birth certificates are suspect anyway because they are half the size of a normal birth certificate. There is no hospital listed on our amended birth certificates. There is no time of birth listed on our birth certificates. There is no height or weight listed on our birth certificates. We can't prove with our amended birth certificates that we were born in Indiana. Our amended birth certificates sometimes don't have the date of file on it just like mine doesn't. So now our voting rights will be denied.
Its time to start voting out these legislators that won't give us our original birth certificates. We need them now just to exercise our rights as American citizens.
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