States Hand Over the DNA of Newborns to DHS
Via Personal Health Information Privacy.
Unknown to most new parents, or those who became parents in the last ten or so years, DNA of newborns has been harvested, tested, stored and experimented with by all 50 states. And all 50 states are now routinely providing these results to the Homeland Security Department.More here.
No doubt we can all see the benefits in testing for genetic disorders or genetic traits and tendencies that could be more adequately dealt with, in some cases actually deterring the onset of life-time illness, but that seems not to be the real thrust of these programs. It may have been initially...but not now.
As with all good things, there are always those who seek the more evil path, in essence turning what should have been a life saving tool, a preventative measure into something insidious and inhumane. This is what has happened to this national effort.
posted by Fergie @ 3/19/2008 01:17:00 PM
1 Comments:
with all we see in the tv show Jericho, and the fictitious corporation Jennings and Rall, this plain scares me senseless, and its horrifying to think one of my children was used in this manner without my consent
:-( thank you for writing this, I made sure it got dugg !!!!
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