From: petertrei@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/15/2026 1:06 PM, The Horny Goat wrote:   
   > On Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:42:22 -0800, Paul S Person   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> 4. The ethnic analysis, OTOH, might indeed be worth following up on   
   >> when allocating resources -- allocate them to mininize consanguineous   
   >> marriages, that is. Specially-trained nurses are all very well, but   
   >> preventing the problem to begin with (using persuasion, with an   
   >> investigation of the cultural background, not force) is a better idea.   
   >   
   > I read one article suggesting strongly that the blood tests that used   
   > to be required in many states before issuance of a marriage licence   
   > was not so much about minimizing consanguineous marriages but rather   
   > to avoid marriages where one or both partners had an active case of   
   > one or another venereal disease and if positive to hustle them off to   
   > treatment "muyo pronto" (which did not of course prevent sexual   
   > contact outside marriage but to give people information they didn't   
   > already have)   
      
   When I got married nearly 40 years ago, the blood test I had to take   
   was explicitly for syphilis, and it had been implemented decades   
   earlier.   
      
   There was no coordination between the tests for me and my fiance,   
   so testing for consanguinity was out.   
      
   pt   
      
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