The following is excerpted from an article by Robert Higgs, posted in the December 19, 2013 edition of Cleveland.com.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — With a stroke of the pen Thursday, the state moved to open the birth records of hundreds of thousands of adopted Ohioans.
Gov. John Kasich signed into law a bill that ultimately will allow adoptees, when they reach adulthood, to gain access to their adoption records, learn more about the medical history of their biological family and perhaps make contact with birth parents.
The new law won’t take effect for a year. The time was built into the legislation to give birth parents a chance to make known if they want to be contacted, and if so, how.
Read Suzanne Perryman’s blog of December 20 at the Huffington Post website.
