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NHS defends cousin marriages because ‘only 15 percent lead to birth defects’ (www.yahoo.com)

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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”.

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[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Having children with disabilities via voluntary incest is a choice. Same with having kids with a terrible genetic disease. It's also questionable how good a parent, if not person, you are for willingly wanting to bring in someone who will suffer into the world. Especially when there's adoption available. If you can use technology to prevent a literal disease, that's different.

People who get kidney failure or lost an arm definetly didn't make that damn choice.

If anything is ableist it's your opinion; people with disease or injury don't want to have it, or made the choice to have it - let alone have they're loved ones get the same thing. It's about not judging the person's potential abilities in specific areas or mistreating them despite the disease.

But advocating for the spread of the disease is fucked up. Your logic is no different than advocating a blind parent should have the right to blind their child intentionally.