NHS defends cousin marriages because ‘only 15pc lead to birth defects’
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The NHS has defended cousin marriage because most do not lead to birth defects, it has emerged.

Midwives have been told about the benefits of “close relative marriage” in training documents that minimise the risks to couples’ children.

The documents claim “85 to 90 per cent of cousin couples do not have affected children” and warn staff that “close relative marriage is often stigmatised in England”, adding claims that “the associated genetic risks have been exaggerated”.

    • Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolEnglish
      56·
      9 hours ago

      Solid observational skills! They have, however, failed you. Just because someone is pointing out that certain arguments don’t actually hold water doesn’t mean they engage in the activities the arguments are against.

      I just don’t care if two cousins wanna fuck because the arguments against it are things that I’m actively opposed to, or don’t apply to the situation.

      • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
        43·
        9 hours ago

        You’re not as persuasive as you think you are…and you’re not fooling anyone.

        • Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolEnglish
          12·
          8 hours ago

          What, persuasive about not wanting to fuck my cousin? I don’t particularly care if anyone thinks I do. If I did, I wouldn’t be in a thread about fucking your cousin saying I think it’s fine to fuck your cousin. I know that people will make assumptions about my sex life based on my position alone.

          If you mean about the arguments against it being eugenics, I care more about that point, because they are, and eugenics is bad.

          • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
            22·
            7 hours ago

            …jfc dude

            Fun fact: Most of the places it’s legal in are blue. Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina are the only red states it’s legal in, out of 17 total states. If we include states where it’s conditionally legal (usually based on age/fertility) it’s Utah out of 7 states.

            Source

            • Kristell@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lolEnglish
              21·
              7 hours ago

              I… Don’t even actually see the point here? I have access to the internet, and know how to use a search engine? You can literally look that up on Wikipedia, are you trying to imply that because I looked at a Wikipedia article for this post that I want to fuck my cousin?

              What a strange outlook on obtaining knowledge. If just knowing what states it’s legal again, something that takes about 30 seconds to find, makes you a cousin-fucker, wouldn’t that make you one too? Or is it just the first person in the thread doing it?