Since 1935, when someone born in California is adopted, the state seals their original birth certificate and issues an amended birth certificate with false information. It makes it appear that the adopted parents were present at the birth. Without a court order, difficult to achieve, adoptees born in California can't access their original birth certificate. Adoptees are the only California citizens who are unable to access this important record of their birth and heritage. 

Adoptees (CAAR-California Alliance for Adoptee Rights) and birth mothers (CUB-Concerned United Birth Parents) agree that this inadequacy needs to change.

See the video for further information on the impact, history and laws surrounding the unsealing of original birth certificates. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erHylYLHqXg&t=257s

Please sign the petition to urge California Lawmakers to pass legislation (and join 16 states both red and blue who have passed similar legislation) which would provide unrestricted access to original birth certificates of California born adult adoptees and their direct descendants.