MM:”Given that the short form Certification of Live Birth is a certified copy of the long form Certificate of Live Birth, no.”
I would contend that the short form is not necessarily a certified “copy” of the long form. What if the long form certificate was later found to have a misspelling or some sort of error? Would they perpetuate that error on the “certified” short form? I very much doubt that. What about the case where a childs paternity is later found to be different from what is on the original BC? I suspect there are processes and procedures in place to make changes, corrections, or ammendments to this document. I also expect that each state has different rules for what information and how each BC can be changed from its original.