Show CHANGING MARRIAGE HEALTH LAWS current movements in this cun try for the extension of marriage health laws gain interest in light of the recent passage in ecuador of a bill requiring medical certificates from couples contemplating tem plating matrimony the new ecuador decree demands that prenuptial pre nuptial certificates be issued by licensed physicians attesting the applicants applicant freedom from tuberculosis syphilis gonorrhea leprosy or any chronic and inheritable sickness anyone performing a marriage without certificates or any physician issuing issuing 1 a fraudulent certificate may be 0 heavily fined and imprisoned from one to two years and any marriage under these circumstances may be annulled on the request of the injured party here there is no federal legislation on the subject and state laws where they exist vary wl eliely Iely surg surgeon ge on general thomas parren jr gave impetus to the arhe lor for greater uniformity when in 1936 he expressed the hope that public opinion would compel state legislatures to pass laws health examinations before the issuance of marriage licenses already several states in the U S have adapted legislation making it necessary for a man and woman to present health certificates before they are gran granted granac tc marriage licenses and it is believed that within a few years enough of the states will have adopted such measures that a uri uniform form federal law can be made |