(WTIC-AM) -- The state Senate is expected to take up a bill tomorrow that would expand adoptees' access to their original birth certificates.
The change would help people adopted before October 1, 1983 to learn about their biological relatives.
In some cases that could include important family medical information.
Access Connecticut President Karen Caffery says some adoptees feel like their lives begin with chapter two, with the first chapter ripped out.
"Imagine that is you, and you look around and everybody else has a book that has chapter one. How are you going to feel?" Caffery asks. "You are going to be angry that everybody else has chapter one and you don't... Also how are you going to understand the story when you are always missing chapter one?"
Access Connecticut is a group of adoptees and parents seeking to open records for adoptees.
People adopted after the start of October, 1983 already have access to their original birth certificates.
The proposal has yet to go before the state House
