Local angle: Washington tight-lipped on identities of birthparents

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  • Author(s): By:KATHIE DURBIN
  • Source:
    Columbian, The (Vancouver, WA), November 13, 2007 A Section, 2pp
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    • Abstract:
      Washington-born adult adoptees have no automatic right to learn the identity of their birthparents. The Washington Department of Health's Center for Health Statistics will provide adoptees with nonidentifying information about their birth parents, such as ethnic background and medical history. But it protects the parents' identities unless the parents consent to release of the information...