{"id":1206,"date":"2009-03-26T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T16:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.council.nyc\/press\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2016-12-13T16:02:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T16:02:02","slug":"statement-by-speaker-christine-c-quinn-re-lesbian-couples-listed-on-their-childs-birth-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2009\/03\/26\/1206\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Christine C. Quinn Re: Lesbian Couples Listed on Their Child\u2019s Birth Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI applaud the Mayor Bloomberg, Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden, and New York City Board of Health for changing their rules to allow legally married lesbian couples to list both partners as parents on their child\u2019s birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis action points out the vital importance of allowing same sex couples to legally marry, and also illustrates the impact local government can have on marriage policies. Changing this rule allows lesbian couples the recognition they deserve in the birth of their child.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a step forward in the recognition of same sex marriage and proves that more and more are realizing a family is based on love, not DNA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI applaud the Mayor Bloomberg, Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden, and New York City Board of Health for changing their rules to allow legally married lesbian couples to list both partners as parents on their child\u2019s birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis action points out the vital importance of allowing same sex couples to legally marry, and also illustrates the impact local government can have on marriage policies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2009\/03\/26\/1206\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}