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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A group of activists is pushing Rhode Island to join a handful of other states that allow adopted children to get access to their birth certificates.

The Rhode Island Adoption Coalition for Equality will hold its first public meeting Saturday at 1 p.m. at Lachapelle Funeral Home, 643 Main Street, Pawtucket.

Members are trying to build support for legislation before the General Assembly that would let adults who were adopted as children get copies of their original birth certificates.

The bill would allow birth parents to say whether they want to be contacted after their children turn 18. Parents who don't want to be contacted would be required to at least provide medical history for a child.

Currently, birth certificates are sealed after adoptions are finalized.

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Don said:

Maybe this group can go to Hawaii and we can get some reliable information on Barack Hussein Obama's supposed birth there. Right now, the Governor of Hawaii has put the clamps on any investigation of this. I wonder why?

Link | March 13, 2009 5:00 PM
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mdb said:

Thank you for that comment. I'm having a hellacious week and it caused me to have such an outburst of laughing.

Comments like Don's are the best medicine.

Link | March 13, 2009 5:26 PM
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