Many states still hold this information hostage from their adopted adults and this needs to change. The opposition's number one argument was the implications for birth mothers' right to privacy and the potential problems this could create. Although birth mothers were told that the documents were sealed, this was by no means a promise of anonymity. Furthermore, as Elizabeth Samuels, a professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, points out in her testimony, “the evidence is that birth mothers who sought privacy sought to hide their pregnancies from their parents or other members of their community". , rather than forever hiding their identity from their children or cutting off any possibility of knowing how their children have fared in life.” Other longtime opponents of open records, such as right-to-life groups and churches, have changed their positions in recent years and testified as supporters of Ohio's passage