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| 4/28/2010 10:12:00 AM | Email this article • Print this article | Web site comment of the week
Users can make comments to stories on the Paxton Record website, www.paxtonrecord.net, by scrolling to the bottom of the page and filling out the article submission form. The following comment stood out this week.
Article comment by: Mary Lynn Fuller
Rep. Shane Cultra is certainly correct to say that the state of Illinois needs to budget like families do.
Medicaid and Medicare are big expenses but should state employees be flying in state airplanes? Then there are the six state-funded shuttle flights between Springfield and Chicago each day. Just between October and March, Governor Pat Quinn flew 71 times. The flight logs for this period of time can be downloaded at http://illnoishomepage.net (WCIA3).
On April 21st HB 5428 passed the full senate. For more information about this adoptee rights bill go to www.ilga.gov. From an adoptee's view point I will tell you that it is horrid and a giant step backward in adoption reform. Even more interesting though is that there seems to be no fiscal note included in this bill. Just what will a year-long, nationwide public campaign cost our state?
One wonders what other bills have been kept quiet that could be signed into law any day by Gov. Quinn. We keep hearing how programs for the needy and elderly should be cut but yet we have lots of waste going on and new bills passing both houses that will cost the state big time if Gov. Quinn signs them into law. Do you see what is wrong with this picture?
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Reader Comments
Posted: Saturday, May 08, 2010
Article comment by:
Anita Field
I agree with Mary Fuller about HB 5428. I am an adopted woman. I truly want to see all adoptees be treated equally and be given their birth certificates just like non-adopted people get them. But this bill, HB 5428, does not do the job. It doesn't treat all Illinois adoptees equally.
Posted: Saturday, May 08, 2010
Article comment by:
Lori Jeske
Illinois has a long-standing reputation for dirty deeds done cheap and HB 5428 sponsored by Rep. Sara Feigenhotz is a dirty deed aimed at the same people she claims to support.
HB 5428 is described as a law that will help adopted citizens access their birth records. What this potential law will do is create a jobs for private investigators and non-profit groups that Rep. Sara Feigenholtz likes. Get it? The tears and sweet stories of how adoptees and their birth families have happily reunited got members of the House and Senate all warm and fuzzy so they'd vote for it.
Now this warm and fuzzy bill is headed for Governor Quinn's desk and if he signs it...everyone in the State of Illinois will have thrown away the civil and human rights of adoptees for generations to come.
Open birth records is about equal rights not reunion.
People who are prohibited by the state from accessing their birth records are a risk of dating blood relatives.
So tell me where Rep. Sara Feigenholtz, other legislators and Gov Quinn have a right to pass a law that restricts even one person from accessing their birth records.
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