As the law stands, an adopted person has no way of accessing their
medical history. They have no way of finding out if there’s a history of
heart disease in the family. Or cancer or any number of hereditary
diseases, writes Clodagh Finn.
It is a cruel thing to carry a question mark at the centre of your being for most of a lifetime, as adopted people in Ireland often do. I know that because, as one of those people, I knew next to nothing about how I came into the world until I was 26 years old.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/how-long-more-must-adopted-people-have-to-wait-404307.html
It is a cruel thing to carry a question mark at the centre of your being for most of a lifetime, as adopted people in Ireland often do. I know that because, as one of those people, I knew next to nothing about how I came into the world until I was 26 years old.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/analysis/how-long-more-must-adopted-people-have-to-wait-404307.html