TN Rep Wants 1st Cousins to Legally Marry

[Ms. Toad]

6. We need to stop acting like this is some country bumpkin thing that only red states would permit.

20 states permit it, including several blue states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, The District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Vermont; and Virginia.

The increased genetic risk is very small (absent an community of repeated cousins marrying cousins), and since we have access to science that risk virtually zero.