This story seems a bit odd to me as the vast majority of the article centers around the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill currently being debated in Parliament rather than the human tragedy of the mistaken marriage.Oh that’s just wrong to do to these people! They should have been told they had a twin! No wonder they grew close. Soul mates indeed.
So...that would make them half-Arkansasans?
This is why we might have to bring back mandatory blood tests before getting a marriage license, so you make sure their dna isn’t too similar.
And everybody can spae me the stuff about infertile couples;sperm donation from an anonymous source doesn't magically become sperm from the woman's partner.
They were just trying to keep it in the family....
Meadow Muffin
It’s not just Arkansas. See Thomas Mann’s decadent short story, “The Blood of the Walsungs.”
At this point, it probably would have been better not to know.
The good news is that you have a twin sister!
The bad news is that you may want to stop having sex with your wife."
One of my granddaughter’s friends didn’t know who her father was and when they moved back to Mom’s old hometown my DIL encouraged Mom to tell her the truth about her father. She put it off several months, come to find out, her half-sister had become her best friend.
Either that, or have Hallmark come out with a new condolences card.
"So you married your sister..."
Maybe I’m way off base, but I am not convinced destroying the marrital relationship is the best thing here.
These two met innocently, developed a relationship and got married.
Is it certain that offspring would be jeopardized, or is it simply more likely that they would be?
At this point the psychological problems for these two are going to be massive no matter what. What a terrible situation.
Open all adoption records. Adoptees should not be denied these records.
I question the authenticity of the story. Those who are desperate to have all adoption records unsealed might be prepared to go to any lengths to make that happen. I do feel badly for these two people if this did in fact happen. I guess I just feel that if a birth mother or father requested anonymity after an adoption, their wishes should be respected. They did the right thing by allowing the children to be adopted. They should be allowed their privacy if that’s what they want.
You only have genetic defects is if it is repeated for several generations.
Totally a non-story.
Yes, it is. But mating half brothers and half sisters is no where near as "dangerous" as full brothers and sisters. Ask any animal breeder. The former is done fairly often, and in fact occurs in nature quite a bit as well (usually the same way as the sperm donor case, same sire, different dam.) But the latter is rarely, very rarely, done deliberately.
Sounds like some of the bums hanging out at the local city park.
She’s my sister, but Damn she’s hot.......
Didn’t I hear this one from A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far Far Away...
This story seems a bit odd to me as the vast majority of the article centers around the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill currently being debated in Parliament rather than the human tragedy of the mistaken marriage.The gov’t is out of line here. We don’t have any genetic tests for marrying - if two recessive-gene carriers marry (Tay-Sachs, cystic fibrosis, etc.) they have a 25% chance of having a seriously or even terminally ill child. Yet they aren’t forbidden.