Esther is mad because her birth certificate is SEALED.

WE WANT "ORPHAN" MOVIE T-SHIRTS!!!

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# 56:

12:51 pm PDT, Aug 18, Lindsey Kitchings, North Carolina
I think there should be Orphan Movie T-Shirts because of the fans

# 55:

10:20 am PDT, Aug 12, Sharon Hutchinson, New Jersey
It seems any little thing riles people today. Outrage over this one line in the movie is absurd. With all the problems in today's world, can't people divert their need to create havoc over real, live issues?

When adoptees reach adulthood, he/she has the right, as any other person, to obtain their birth certificate. Now that's an issue that should be addressed, not a movie one-liner.

# 54:

1:05 pm PDT, Aug 5, Jonathan Fraering, Louisiana

# 53:

9:23 am PDT, Aug 5, Jennifer McBride, Oklahoma
People are so quick to jump on a band wagon over something like a movie line. I went to see this movie last night, and I remember the line, and to think that is true would take the whole thing out of context. What is more important is the true for these people should be there if they want to find it. Because of death in families, I have many kids I look after and I love them all as much as my own kids, I am not sure why people think love is so limited.

# 52:

12:20 pm PDT, Aug 2, Nicolette Stepro, Indiana
There is so much outrage over one line in this movie. Where is the outrage about the government sealing original birth certificates of adoptees?

People do have a right to their OWN ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATES?

# 51:

9:57 pm PDT, Aug 1, Chris Amburgy, Louisiana

# 50:

8:24 am PDT, Jul 28, CJ Davis, Missouri

# 49:

9:50 am PDT, Jul 23, Chris T, New Jersey
Only thing I have to say is GIVE ME A BREAK, the movies that was release before this movie has an impact on someone negatively one way or the other and movies that will be released in the future will prove to be the same. I ask what is the point of protest, keep in mine the movies industry will NEVER MAKE EVERYONE HAPPY. IF U BELIVE THAT PROTESTING THIS MOVIE DUE TO THE NEGATIVE MESSAGE SENT TO ADOPTED PARENT THAN YOU WILL BE PROTESTING EVERY MOVIE THAT IS RELEASE FOR OTHER REASONS.

# 47:

3:44 am PDT, Jul 21, Vincent Butters, Canada

# 46:

4:11 am PDT, Jul 19, Olivia Smith, Virginia
The outrage over the movie is incredibly stupid, especially when there are other issues over adoption that are being ignored.

# 45:

7:14 pm PDT, Jul 18, Name not displayed, California
These upset people need to come to reality

Yes but should be advised not to try an contact there birth parents

# 44:

3:09 pm PDT, Jul 18, Jason Wilkinson, California

# 43:

7:56 am PDT, Jul 18, Laura Watkins, Virginia
Where is ORPHAN critics' outrage at the legalized buying and selling of children in American adoption? Where's their outrage at the legalized fraud and coercion perpetrated on young and poor natural parents, that's been going on for decades? Where's their outrage that millions of adult adoptees and mothers who surrendered children to adoption - honest, caring citizens who contribute immensely to society - are spoken for and treated like infants, losers and criminals for our "crime" of being trapped in adoption by people who personally gain from our cruel, inhumane separation? There is none. They are hypocrites of the worst sort.

I want an ORPHAN movie t-shirt that identifies me as the mother of a legal "orphan" whose firstborn child was taken from me by fraud and coercion. Americans need to wake up and see adoption for what it is, a massive con job perpetrated by attorneys, adoption agencies and baby mill operators who are raking in huge profits by needlessly tearing apart natural families and shamelessly lying about us to the public. They're hiding real adoption horror stories behind their closed records and false "birth certificates." People are dying because of it. How dare they patronize us? How dare they claim most of us want this insane secrecy? They are lying.

# 42:

12:52 pm PDT, Jul 14, Name not displayed, New Jersey

# 41:

3:50 pm PDT, Jul 9, Name not displayed, North Carolina
You should have rights to your own birth certificate. It seems like it's trying to protect the adopt parents who don't want the child to know where they came from then the actual birth family.

# 40:

4:56 pm PDT, Jul 7, David Toomey, Australia

# 39:

7:52 am PDT, Jul 7, Jimm Mandenberg, Michigan

# 38:

8:38 am PDT, Jul 3, Dory Martin, Kansas
The question that Esther asked "It must be hard to love an adopted child like your own?" that has so many adoptive parents up in arms is one that I, as an adoptee, have thought many times during my life. It's really gone too far when adoptive parents feel they have to censor an adoptee in a movie. It's a movie people! How about using Esther's question as a springboard for a real discussion about adoption? Better yet, how about fighting for some REAL rights for adoptees?

# 37:

7:54 am PDT, Jul 3, Zada Petersen, California
Imagine if aparents were as passionate about fighting for their children's original birth certificates as they are for fighting against this movie! Poor Esther...all she wanted was her OBC... ;)

# 36:

7:28 am PDT, Jul 2, Mari Steed, Pennsylvania
Adopted adults vote, pay taxes, work every day and raise families. Yet we are denied access to documents to which even a convicted criminal has access. I am not an 'orphan', but I am a proud bastard and natural mother to a daughter relinquished in PA prior to their 1985 sealing of records.

# 35:

3:34 pm PDT, Jun 29, Name not displayed, California
As an adoptee I find it disturbing that a fictional movie is more upsetting to some adoptive parents than the right for adoptees to have access to their original birth certificates and biological information.

I want an Orphan t-shirt to raise awareness of the REAL issues in adoption and let adoptive parents know how far off the mark they are regarding the issue of adoptee rights.

# 34:

1:00 pm PDT, Jun 29, Peter Franklin, Iraq
We, adoptees, have transcended the label of orphan or bastard. Apparently some adoptive parents have not. If other deprived minorities could get over their prehistoric labels, perhaps we could focus on the real issues.

Visit AdopteesWithOutLiberty.com

# 33:

11:06 am PDT, Jun 29, Shelby Tomaszewski, New York

# 32:

8:43 am PDT, Jun 29, Doug McAndrews, Colorado

# 31:

7:00 am PDT, Jun 29, Gaye Tannenbaum, Kansas
There is so much outrage over one line in this movie. It's ridiculous. Where is the outrage about the government sealing original birth certificates of adoptees? I've met my first mom and still don't have access to my original birth certificate. Unlike other rights issues where a person has the option of moving to another state or even country if the motivation is strong enough, adoptees are FOREVER bound by the laws of their state of birth and adoption - even if they no longer reside there.

I want to join other adoptees in solidarity over our status as second-class citizens. We are invisible because we look just like everyone else - but we don't have the same rights to our own heritage and the basic data about OUR births and origins. To make matters worse, US Passport Services considers our Amended Birth Certificates as invalid if our adoption was finalized more than one year after birth. Esther's ability to get a passport is directly impacted by not having an original.

# 30:

6:37 pm PDT, Jun 28, Shannon Layden, Oregon
Why is it OK for the government to make the "new" birth certificate read as such. They are not the BIRTH Parent and it should not read BIRTH CERTIFICATE with the adoption parents names. It should read Certificate of ADOPTION Parents are:

# 29:

11:48 am PDT, Jun 28, Desiree Smolin, Alabama
What good is a birth certificate--which is supposed to legally establish the "facts" of a person's birth--if it contains lies? Stating lies don't make them truths. Birth certificates no longer necessarily convey truth. Basic human rights should dictate that ALL people know the truth about who their genetic parents are, the truth about who their gestational mother is, and finally the truth about who their legal custodial parents are. No child should be deprived of their own identity and personal information for the emotional comfort, needs, or wants of anyone else. One generation should not be able to steal these most basic things from another.

# 28:

8:50 am PDT, Jun 28, Katja Michelle, Washington

# 27:

8:50 am PDT, Jun 28, Katja Michelle, Washington

# 26:

11:49 pm PDT, Jun 27, Baby Boy Church, Oregon

# 25:

10:26 pm PDT, Jun 27, Linda Webber, California
I am a reunited mother of my infant daughter that was taken for adoption during the baby scoop ERA when pregnant Moms were abandoned by their parents and society and were not allowed to parent their own children.Although now reunited with my daughter neither of us are allowed to have the true Birth certificate that states I gave birth to her.Instead it lies and has her adoptive parents as the ones who gave birth to her.The lies and secrets must end.Us mothers do not need the protection that the government says we were promised.Not only were we not promised this we never wanted or asked for it.There is no reason to keep the grown children away from their natural parents.Ask the question "who really is being protected since it isn't us natural mothers".We are only as sick as our secrets so open up adoption records NOW!

# 24:

8:19 pm PDT, Jun 27, Juli Ochs, Minnesota
You can't anymore love your cat as if it were a dog because it will never act like a dog. Anymore than an adoptee will ever belong in the family they are put into.

# 23:

5:49 pm PDT, Jun 23, Jenna Fox, Washington

# 22:

5:41 pm PDT, Jun 23, Name not displayed, Washington
The one part that played luck in my favor was that I was shown and given access to a birth certificate that was never altered. Though I've never met my original parents, my last name will change to what it Should be after I finally get my life together.

People absolutely should have access to their origins, and as for why I want the Orphan T-shirt? Well, It's seems I get to sport the fact that I Am plus this movie is already sporting some kick@$$ controversy.

# 21:

6:43 am PDT, Jun 23, Kathryn Hill, Virginia

# 20:

1:24 am PDT, Jun 23, Pam Boland, Georgia

# 19:

5:29 pm PDT, Jun 22, Mary Lassiter, Hawaii

# 18:

1:25 pm PDT, Jun 22, Name not displayed, California
I am outraged that adoptive parents are protesting the characterization of adoption in a film while adoptees like myself are treated like second-class citizens. Most adoptees in the United States have no access to information that others take for granted, like original birth certificates. It is time to change the way adoption is set up; take care of adoptees, not the adoptive parents who are content to live with fictions.

# 17:

11:15 am PDT, Jun 22, Elizabeth Cardoza, California
I vote for Esther.

I just want one.

# 16:

3:03 am PDT, Jun 22, Steve Klein, Virginia

# 15:

11:43 am PDT, Jun 21, Samantha Franklin, Oklahoma

# 14:

12:28 am PDT, Jun 21, Lori Aldape, Michigan
Hmmm it seems appropriate to protect these adopted children from the mean people who don't understand adoption, yet their new parents send them to school to hear the same thing and worse from their classmates. I'm confused.

EVERYONE has a right to know who they are and where they come from.

# 13:

11:54 pm PDT, Jun 20, Lisa Ruppert, Washington

# 12:

11:00 pm PDT, Jun 20, Gabrielle Benson, New Zealand
If adoptive parents put in even half as much effort in protesting honest records, as they do on lines in movies, we would have long since gotten Esther her original birth certificate!

# 11:

10:28 pm PDT, Jun 20, Linda Gambino Niehaus, Ohio

# 10:

10:17 pm PDT, Jun 20, David Dunkleberger, Pennsylvania

# 9:

10:11 pm PDT, Jun 20, Name not displayed, California
Our children deserve their truths!

My son's adoptive mother was apparently in the hospital giving birth to my son at the same time I was! What a farce! I want my son to own his truth, to hold the actual document - his ORIGINAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE - in his hands and to know that I gave birth to him. He carries generations of genetics passed down through my family line and that is who is by nature! It is his decision to embrace or reject his genetic inheritance AND the ideals inherited through his adoptive family's nurture. The bottom line is he needs to know his entire history and make choices based on the truth.

# 8:

8:47 pm PDT, Jun 20, C Collins, Texas
If adoptive parents truly love their adopted children as their own they would be concerned with their right to be treated as a full citizen of this country. Why aren't they out protesting for this more important, critical real-life issue instead of this fictional movie?

# 7:

8:45 pm PDT, Jun 20, Kristen McAdams, California
I want a t-shirt because I support Esther receiving her original birth certificate. NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO KILL FOR IT!!!

# 6:

8:38 pm PDT, Jun 20, Dave Frye, California
Give these people access to their identity. They have every right to their original birth certificates just like the rest of us.

# 5:

8:19 pm PDT, Jun 20, Erika DeBois, Oregon
there should be more outrage. i am outraged. i want my original birth certificate. it is unfair that anyone else can go to the court house and get it in hours. i have to apply and hope that its not permanatly sealed. i also have to wait 8 weeks to maybe get it.

YES. Adopted people should have access to their origingal birth certificate. i dont even think that they should be changed but since that will continue to happen, we should at least have easy access.

# 4:

8:07 pm PDT, Jun 20, Marley Greiner, Ohio
bhhhaaaaaaa!!!!!!!! Esther's mad because she's adopted. Give us our records. Give us a shirt!

# 3:

8:02 pm PDT, Jun 20, Virginia Williams, Tennessee

# 2:

7:54 pm PDT, Jun 20, Name not displayed, Indiana
Esther has a point.

# 1:

7:27 pm PDT, Jun 20, Mara Rigge, California
Adoptees are NOT second class citizens. We deserve to have our original birth certificates. I want an Orphan movie t-shirt because this movie has amplified what is really wrong with adoption: LIES forced upon innocent, unsuspecting children. NOT one-liners in movies.

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