They want to know their disease risks.
Foes fear a privacy invasion.
Like many adoptees, she was naive. But what really outraged Schwarz, and turned the San Francisco marketing research consultant into a national crusader for open adoption records, was what she discovered after a private investigator located her mother in a Harrisburg nursing home. Her mother is dying of breast cancer, a disease that Schwarz has learned is so prevalent in her family tree that she has decided to be tested for the breast-cancer gene. Schwarz declared in a recent letter to Pennsylvania legislators. The revolution in medical genetics is having a profound effect on adoption.