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Those who trot out the abortion bogey man are continuously allowed to make and have quoted unsubstantiated statements that opening adoption records would increase abortions and unsubstantiated statements about the wishes and desires of women relinquishing their children for adoption. All of the available data from the states that have had access to birth records for years supports the conclusion that abortions rates and birth records access laws have no connection to each other. In fact, in these states, adoption rates have increased. Relinquishing moms are not focussed,at the time of relinquishment, on perpetual anonymity. This is a fictitious issue concocted by individuals and institutions that want to keep these records sealed for other unstated reasons. As anyone interested in adoptions knows, the trend in the past couple of decades has been for relinquishing mothers to search out, or at least be introduced to, prospective adoptive parents because the relinquishing moms want not only to know who is adopting their children but want also to be assured that the adopting patent or parents are ok with them. Isn't it odd that that portion of the right to life community that adamantly defends the right to life of the unborn on the basis that these unborn are children and that society should be protective of the rights of these unborn children regardless of the desire of the mother to have an abortion, care little about the right of these children to know who their mothers are because the supposed right of the mothers to keep their identities secret from their children who were adopted tramples any right of the children to know their biological origins and history?