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Nonprofit wants both same-sex parents on birth certificates

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union wants a federal judge to order Nebraska to list both parents on birth certificates of children born to same-sex couples.

The nonprofit's Nebraska chapter made the request Thursday on behalf of Nicole and Brooke Wagner and other same-sex parents. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the couple's baby is nearly two months old and still doesn't have a birth certificate, because the Nebraska Office of Vital Records and Statistics only has offered to list Nicole Wagner as the "mother" and Brooke Wagner as a "friend."

The group says the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has refused to provide gay couples with birth certificates for their children on the same conditions as straight couples.

The Nebraska Attorney General's Office is reviewing the request.

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