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”.
I think incest is icky and we should “aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population”
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I think these sorts of conversations are too nuanced for any politician to have, like the death penalty. They’d just use it to target people the right doesn’t like.