From the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, June 15, 1997, section E page 6

      As an adult adoptee, I appreciate the front-page coverage The 
Inquirer gave to the scandal of the Hicks baby-selling operation 
(Inquirer, June 8). While this was indeed a horrendous incident, it is 
only an extreme example of the attitude held in the past, and alas dying 
very hard, that adopted children have no right to know their own heritage.
     
      It will be extremely difficult for those who came from the Hicks 
operation to find their heritage, but neither is it simple for the 
millions of the rest of us, legally adopted, who have no right to our 
own original birth certificates.

      We ask only for what every other adult citizen of this country can 
take for granted: the right to knowledge of our own origins.


Cindy Bertrand Holub
Philadelphia

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