Hawaii law provided for legitimation - that is, when unmarried parents got married they could get a whole new birth certificate made up to replace the original which was then destroyed - with the new one being exactly as if they had been married when the child was born.
And Obama says in his books that the facts regarding that marriage were murky. There was no embarrassment at acknowledging that SAD was pregnant outside of wedlock. In fact, one of the only decent things Obama ever did was to empathize with Bristol Palin’s plight because his mom had been in the same situation. So it doesn’t seem like that would be something he’d be afraid to reveal.
And the HDOH has actually given other clues regarding an amendment that Obama made to his BC. If the HDOH has answered requests accurately, it just about has to be his birth weight that he added to the BC to complete it in 2006. What he has to hide is that he wasn’t seen by a Hawaii doctor within 30 days of birth to have an estimate of the birth weight submitted by the doctor so the BC could be completed. The obvious question anybody who saw that amendment noted on his COLB would be “Why did it take 45 years for him to get a birth weight added to his BC, if he was really born in Hawaii?”
And especially since he has also claimed (apparently, on White House stationery with a raised seal) that he was born at Kapiolani Hospital. If his birth weight was only added to the record to make it complete in 2006 then it totally blows away his claim of being born at Kapiolani.
The origins of that Abercrombie letter aren't clear. Please see the Joe Kovacs article Did Obama even write letter to 'birth hospital'? Ignores repeated requests to authenticate Obama message declaring exact hospital.
BO was not born in ANY hospital in Hawai'i.
Butterdezillion: you are amazing. Keep up the good work.
I have to retract my guess in post #24. I just looked at a couple of Hawaiian long forms on the Internet, and there appears to be nothing on the form to indicate whether or not the mother and father of the child are married. The form asks for the mother's maiden name, so that provides no help.
I still think that if Obama was born out of wedlock he might have tried to conceal it, though apparently that is not behind his failure to release his long form.