For grieving parents, the certificate is an important acknowledgment of loss. July 15, 2011— -- Three weeks before she was due to give birth, Heidi Kauffman of Port Royal, Pa., found out the ...

I thought it was an old vaudeville gag until I read the Jan. 18 Patriot-News editorial about the new wording on the Pa. birth certificate. Seems like the old-fashioned terms "Mom" and "Dad," used ...