Information on adoption
Sir,—The self-appointed spokesperson for Birth Parents Anonymous, Mrs Margaret Quin, wrote last week of her efforts on behalf of birth parents who wish to retain the confidentiality supposedly promised them when they gave their children in adoption. She wrote that 12 out of 15 Parliamentarians questioned could not tell her what the Adult Adoption Information Bill would do, but planned to vote for it. The issue is supposed to be one of conscience, but in May this year, when Sir Robert Muldoon — an active opponent of the bill — was in Rower, a remit was accepted at the rational Party’s Auckland divisional conference asking for all National M.P.s to vote against the bill. I suggest that members of Parliament read all signed submissions and then vote in favour of the majority, which include adoptees, searching and otherwise, whose rights should be paramount, but which at present count for nothing. — Yours, etc., G. R. MCDONALD. October 31, 1984.
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