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Re: More Election Bad News?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:34:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > Licenses? Or just recognition of contracts? The state ought not to be
> > granting licenses of this sort, merely recognizing contracts. (or in the
> > case of non consenting or non adult, NOT recognizing)
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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 in a same-sex marriage, unless genetic science develops to the point where
> they can turn sperm into eggs and/or vice versa.
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
(Rh-positive mothers w/Rh-negative babies).
But what do I know, I'm still living in a cave. ;)
-Evil Wayne
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| (...) It’s 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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| (...) 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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