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Several Republican members of the Missouri House of Representatives are coming out in opposition to a bill by a Republican state senator to end child marriages in the Show Me State. According to the Kansas City Star, the bill — co-sponsored by Republican state senator Holly Thompson Rehder and Democratic state senator Lauren Arthur — may not pass the lower chamber of the Missouri legislature due to GOP opposition. Thompson Rehder’s bill prohibits marriage licenses from being granted in Missouri to anyone under the age of 18. Currently 16 and 17 year-olds can get marriage licenses with parental…

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