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This might verge on ASB, since the Catholic Church and Fundamentalist Christians would "balk" (to put it mildly), but then, stupid laws and customs have persisted in history before.
The most plausible way to get this, I figure, would be a requirement that DNA samples come from the same tissue sample that exists in the evidence...so skin samples under fingernails would require a skin scraping from a suspect. This is scientific nonsense, a DNA sample can come from any tissue, but the law doesn't ALWAYS do things in a scientifically sensible manner.
OK, now we have rape suspects being ordered to provide semen samples, and presumably being kept in jail until they comply. How many religious people would be in jail indefinitely under such a scenario? Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands?
PS...this was inspired by a Law & Order SVU episode where the students in a Catholic school sport team were required to give semen samples to check sperm motility (and the priest implausibly went along, albeit under protest).
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