# MP Urges Prime Minister to Back Ban on First-Cousin Marriage

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118617188370153869
- Source account: [@BasilTheGreat](https://x.com/BasilTheGreat)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:40
- Published: 2026-11-06
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/mtYz32qefWgu/en/mp-urges-prime-minister-to-back-ban-on-first-cousin-marriage

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/mtYz32qefWgu/en/mp-urges-prime-minister-to-back-ban-on-first-cousin-marriage) And marriage between first cousins carries significant health issues, many of which aren't even knowable until post-birth.

[0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/mtYz32qefWgu/en/mp-urges-prime-minister-to-back-ban-on-first-cousin-marriage?t=6) When practiced generation after generation, there is a significant multiplier effect.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/mtYz32qefWgu/en/mp-urges-prime-minister-to-back-ban-on-first-cousin-marriage?t=11) In addition, the real impacts to the openness of our society and women's rights in our country are also significant.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/mtYz32qefWgu/en/mp-urges-prime-minister-to-back-ban-on-first-cousin-marriage?t=17) After all, there are significant dynamics in having sharing the same set of grandparents.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/mtYz32qefWgu/en/mp-urges-prime-minister-to-back-ban-on-first-cousin-marriage?t=21) On Friday, this government has a choice to let my bill go through on fir- to ban first cousin marriage to committee stage.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/mtYz32qefWgu/en/mp-urges-prime-minister-to-back-ban-on-first-cousin-marriage?t=27) Will the Prime Minister think again before instructing his whips to block this legislation? Hear hear.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/mtYz32qefWgu/en/mp-urges-prime-minister-to-back-ban-on-first-cousin-marriage?t=32) Prime Minister. Mr. Speaker, we've taken our position on that bill.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/mtYz32qefWgu/en/mp-urges-prime-minister-to-back-ban-on-first-cousin-marriage?t=35) Thank you. That completes Prime Minister's Questions.