True, there is no law to sustain this unnatural vice; but what is needed is a law to punish it as a crime, and at the same time to fix the status of the innocent children, the offspring of this system, and of the possibly innocent plural wives.
Grant advocates for laws to punish polygamy and protect the rights of innocent children and wives involved in the system.
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