An Iowa same-sex couple has filed a lawsuit against the state health department after one of their names was removed from their stillborn child’s death certificate. The lawsuit cites state law that provides the same spousal assumption of parentage to same-sex spouses as it does to different-sex spouses. The suit demands both names be put on the death certificate and a court order declaring the state’s actions unconstitutional. Jeff Eckhoff, DesMoines Register 02/08/2012
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