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# Adoption
Adoption tracing legislation ‘risks being found unconstitutional’, O'Gorman tells Committee
Failure to balance the privacy rights of mothers with the identity rights of children could spark legal challenges to new laws, he said.
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Sep 28th 2021, 5:35 PM
# Adoption
O'Gorman says term 'birth mother' is 'reductive and hurtful' ahead of legislation debate
The minister is set to discuss the Birth Information and Tracing Bill at a meeting of the Oireachtas Children’s Committee this afternoon.
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Sep 28th 2021, 11:36 AM
# Adoption
'We were told our mothers were prostitutes and ne'er-do-wells. My mother was a senior civil servant, aged 30'
Susan Lohan says adopted people have for decades been fed a false narrative about their mothers in the hopes they won’t try to find them.
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Jan 16th 2021, 10:30 AM