There are a number of flaws to this argument. In addition, there are times when promises should be broken. Zoning laws once promised white homeowners that blacks and Jews would not be able to move into certain neighborhoods. Those restrictive covenants were broken to give all people the same opportunity. Measure 58 does the same.
Most studies show that the majority of birth mothers welcome contact with their offspring.
In fact, the Boys and Girls Aid Society, which does not support Measure 58, reports that 83 percent of birth mothers agreed to having contact when found. Critics of the measure say it isn't needed. The state has set up a mutual registry and search service, where it acts as an intermediary between birth mothers and adoptees who seek to find each other. The registry is also expensive and ineffective. It doesn't help adoptees whose mothers have died, lost contact with the state or decided that they don't want to be contacted.