Yes, it’s a computer generated abstract and does not fulfill all qualifications. Since you offered up Connecticut, let’s take a look at Connecticut:
http://www.ct.gov/doc/LIB/doc/PDF/Workbook/wb02.pdf
Application for a Copy or Abstract of Birth Certificate
IMPORTANT: Please indicate below the number and type of record requested.
CERTIFIED PHOTOCOPY - This can be used for all purposes.
CERTIFICATION OF BIRTH CARD (Wallet-Size) - Note: Available years 1973 and after.
This can be used for new school enrollment, applying for social security benefits. (For other purposes, please contact the party involved)
You offered, in Post #74, the following quote from the DOS:
*A certified birth certificate has a registrar's raised, embossed, impressed or multicolored seal, registrar’s signature, and the date the certificate was filed with the registrar's office, which must be within 1 year of your birth. Please note, some short (abstract) versions of birth certificates may not be acceptable for passport purposes.
I responded that a Certification of Live Birth, now issued by Hawaii and in various other incarnations by many other states, fulfills the qualifications set forth by the DOS. It has "a raised, embossed, impressed or multicolored seal." It has "the registrar's signature." It has "the date the certificate was filed in the registrar's office, which must be within 1 year of...birth."
Is this the hill you wish to stand on for this fight?
If so, it's not a winner.
Precisely which qualification does it not fulfill? The state department is very clear that it only needs three things:
1) Raised or multicolored state seal
2) Registrar's signature
3) Date filed less than one year of birth
Which doesn't it fulfill?