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Gay parents can have both names on birth certificate
The Associated Press

    NEW YORK — State officials will now let married same-sex couples list both of their names on their children’s birth certificates in a policy shift deeply important to many gays and lesbians.
    The decision, which echoes similar provisions in states that allow gay marriages or civil unions, is one of many changes since Gov. David Paterson ordered state agencies in May to respect out-of-state gay marriages.
    The state Health Department said Friday that it had agreed to the change, which came after a lesbian couple who are expecting a baby filed a lawsuit. The change would apply statewide outside of New York City, which is considering revamping its own birth certifi cate forms to accommodate same-sex couples.
    Under state law, a woman’s husband is automatically deemed a parent of a child the pair conceives through artificial insemination, whether or not he is the genetic father. Gay couples have complained of being forced to jump through legal hoops to secure equivalent parental rights.
    Carolyn Trzeciak and Nina Sheldon Trzeciak of Ulster County, who got married in Canada in 2006, sued last month. Nina Sheldon Trzeciak is carrying their first child, conceived through in vitro fertilization and due any day.
    The couple’s legal complaint argued that both should................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar01603

How things are going nowadays, maybe they SHOULD run paternity tests on each and every baby, even IF the 2 people are married.  This only goes to prove the fact...unless there's some way you can prove to me scientifically that 2 females can get together the genetic makeup to make a child...or 2 males for that matter (although I guess this would be an adoption).  In fact, I always thought that the birth certificate was less a "I won a new baby" certificate and more of a way to prove descendancy and/or backtrack medical conditions.  If the bloodwork won't say it, this certificate shouldn't say it, no matter WHO created the little one.