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| (...) The whole license thing is probably, in part at least, a throwback to the days when you had to get blood tests to ensure blood-type compatibility before they'd allow you to get married. Ironically, that's an issue that wouldn't matter at all (...) (20 years ago, 3-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Throwback? I'm pretty sure I had to get a blood test when I got married way back in the dark ages of 2000. The way I understood it was to make you aware of any Rh incompatibilities - which can be an still issue as far a having children (...) (20 years ago, 3-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Its the other way around, with Rh- mothers and Rh+ babies, since the Rh factor is a dominant trait, and an Rh+ mother cannot conceive an Rh- baby (barring extreme and unlikely genetic mutation, that is). (...) At present, only a tiny handful (...) (20 years ago, 3-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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