Philadelphia Inquirer: A new Pennsylvania law will allow birth certificates for stillborn babies, by Amy Worden:
HARRISBURG – Six years ago, Heidi Kauffman, pregnant with her third child, went to her doctor for a routine exam. She was concerned because her lively baby had turned oddly quiet.
An ultrasound confirmed the worst. Three weeks before Kauffman’s due date, her baby was dead.
Doctors induced labor, and the 7-pound boy Kauffman and her husband would name Kail was delivered stillborn. Racked with pain and guilt, Kauffman asked a nurse, “When do I get a birth certificate?”
“You won’t,” she was told. Instead, the Kauffmans received a death certificate. . . .