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Date: Wed. Sep. 19 2007 1:46 PM ET

TORONTO — A Superior Court judge has quashed an Ontario law that allowed the opening of past adoption records.

The legislation, which took effect Monday, allowed birth parents and adoptees to access information about each other, but today's ruling struck down the law.

Noted Toronto civil-rights lawyer Clayton Ruby launched a constitutional challenge to the Adoption Information Disclosure Act last year.

He filed the challenge on behalf of four Ontario residents -- three adoptees and one who gave up a child for adoption.

The province's information commissioner says the ruling confirms the importance of an individual's right to privacy.

Ruby is holding a news conference this afternoon to discuss the implications of the court's decision.

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Pettifer
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GOOD
We have 3 adopted children who are all married with families and never has the issue of "where did I come from" raise its head.
Why would we want to unsettle a happy and healthy family such as that law would indicate.
Doug and Joan


Charlie Flynn
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Wow! The lengths people will go to hide their past and trample everyone else's right to know their's in the process. Yet somehow they consider this justice.


Anne Camobell
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That sort of information should only be available to the adopted individual,if they so desire to know, It is their birthright and no one else's. Amen!


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