Chris McKenna is reporting at The Fray Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed a bill November 14, that allows adult adoptees to obtain their original birth certificates with the names of their birth parents. The legislation was more than 25 years in coming. After languishing since 1993, it finally sailed through the Senate and Assembly with little opposition this year. “Where you came from informs who you are, and every New Yorker deserves access to the same birth records – it’s a basic human right,” Cuomo said after signing the bill. New York had maintained a veil of confidentiality over adoptions since the 1930s, allowing adoptees their original birth certificates only in rare instances when a judge consented. Adoptees and their advocates had argued that access to birth records was a basic right that only adoptees had been denied. Read the full story at The Fray.