NewsWhore
11-09-2007, 02:20 PM
The Central Electoral Board (JCE) favors submitting a bill to Congress that would allow girls aged 16 years or younger to obtain a cedula identity card during their pregnancies or after they give birth. Jose Angel Aquino, who drafted the bill, explained that this would reduce the number of undocumented children, since in the DR a mother without a cedula cannot register her child at birth. Law 659 on Civil State Acts requires a parent to show a "cedula" identification card when registering the child. The bill stipulates that young mothers would obtain the cedula by presenting their birth certificate at the JCE registry office.
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