The Heritage Foundation's foreign policy analyst Nile Gardiner joins 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss President Donald Trump's second state visit to the United Kingdom.

There is a roiling debate in the United Kingdom over the practice of first cousins marrying, which is fairly common in some immigrant communities, but still taboo to most of the indigenous population. Which side wins could have broad implications not just for Brits, but for the entire West.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer recently blocked a vote to ban first-cousin marriage in the U.K. and then the National Health Service put out guidance in which the supposed benefits of the incestuous arrangement were touted despite real medical concerns.

After acknowledging that children who are the product of first-cousin marriage are indeed substantially more likely to suffer genetic defects, the official guidance to midwives went on to say those concerns "must also be balanced against the potential benefits."   

Listed among these benefits are "collective social capital" as well as "financial and social security at the individual, family and wider kinship levels." Finally, there was a government note claiming that critics have placed an "unwarranted, narrow focus on close-relative marriage."

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Let’s set to one side the absurdity of balancing legitimate and serious medical concerns against social justice, something we remember from being told the only........

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