Word: inselman
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More than an hour south of Portland's suburbs, where Cindy has kids in school, lives another woman, Mary Inselman. Mary is angry about adoption law, but for another reason entirely. She turned 77 in December, and has never seen her birth certificate. While everyone else can see such a document without fuss, adoptees must petition a court for their records, and petitions cost money (Inselman is on a fixed income) and, more important, dignity...
...Inselman, who says she didn't learn she was adopted until a relative told her just six years ago, feels she should be able to discover her true background, but she has a more urgent reason to seek her records. She needs to find out whether any of her biological relatives has a kidney that would be suitable for her granddaughter, who is need of a donor. Inselman has sent letters to a local judge explaining all this, but the judge has thus far refused to release the information, offering a polite recitation of the law. Other judges across...
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