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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Infertility is another side effect.  It is epidemic in the middle east, with as many as 25% of all couples unable to reproduce because of consanguinity.  Iran pays for in vitro, surrogacy, donor eggs etc at state-run facilities because it has no choice if the population is to survive.[/quote]

Wait, people are unable to reproduce because they are cousins, or because they are the product of cousin marriages?[/quote]

It's not clear. It would seem to be both.  A shockingly higher than normal percentage of Iranian men are infertile, which would suggest that being the result of a consanguineous pairing has an impact on fertility (the latter proposition in your post). [b] At the same time, a lot of Iranian couples are able to reproduce when a donor egg is introduced or donor sperm is used, suggesting they may be fertile but just unable to reproduce with each other.  This would indicate that being too closely related affects people's ability to reproduce with each other [/b](the former proposition in your post). Bottom line: keeping it *out* of the family is a good thing.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/17/the-islamic-republic-of-baby-making/[/quote]

I had never heard of this. Fascinating![/quote]

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