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...forefront of the movement are the N.A.A.C. and ALMA (Adoptees Liberty Movement Association), which lobby to change state laws protecting the confidentiality of adoption records. Three states -- Alabama, Alaska and Kansas -- have completely open records, available to all adoptees over 18. Other states require the consent of a birth parent, the child and one or both adoptive parents before documents may be unsealed...
...adoption.) Which of the birth mother's expenses can be paid by the adoptive parents? Hospitalization? Maternity clothes? How long does she have to change her mind about giving up her child? Does the birth father, who in most cases is out of the picture, have to give his consent? Because of their laws, California and Texas have become magnets for couples seeking independent adoptions, while Minnesota and Michigan have none. "There are probably more infants from Minnesota placed in California than in Minnesota itself," says Beverly Hills lawyer David Keene Leavitt, who has handled more than 7,000 adoptions...
...addition, I believe it is improper for elected City officials to appear in person before city boards to promote their positions on various issues. Councillor Duehay, on a consent basis, appears before the Zoning Board and Licensing Board to express his views and opinions. This has a real potential for influencing the outcome of an administrative agency decision. If not in actuality, at the very least, the appearance of impropriety is present in the subtle influence that a person holding public office can have on board members, particularly since board members are appointed by the City Manager, who in turn...
During testimony in August, Davis, 31, said he would feel "raped of my reproductive rights" if Mrs. Davis were allowed to implant the embryos without his consent...
...perceived that liberal democracy is the most equitable form of government that man has ever devised. Thus the ideal state should be "liberal insofar as it recognizes and protects through a system of law man's universal right to freedom, and democratic insofar as it exists only with the consent of the governed...