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There's been a slow but steady movement across the U.S. to unseal records for adoptees, but bipartisan efforts have repeatedly stalled in Texas – and one state senator has consistently stood in the way.
HARTFORD, Conn. — Karen Galarneau Quesnel was 18 and pregnant when she arrived at the St. Agnes Home for Unwed Mothers in Wethersfield 40 years ago.
In 1983, adoption forms changed, eliminating birth parents' rights to privacy. Cassano's bill gives all adult adoptees born prior to that access to their birth parents' identities. "I fall in this weird little donut hole of people who can only get it if their birth parents are dead but you can't really prove that they're dead because you don't know who they are,” Flaherty explained. “The fact that there’s another document out there that actually has the accurate information in terms of who gave birth to me and that it’s locked in a vault and that I can’t have it unlike everyone ...