Posted on 06/24/2010 12:49:54 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
Speak up by the end of THIS Friday. Say NO to the federal government's plan to collect and control the DNA of every citizen, starting at birth.
This Friday, June 25th, is the last day to comment on the federal government's plan to bank and use newborn citizen DNA without consent for research an other purposes. Please make comments --- no matter how brief they may be. Even one sentence is better than nothing.
(Excerpt) Read more at cchconline.org ...
http://www.cchconline.org/pdf/CCHC_Comments_on_SACHDNC_Rec_6_23_10_NBS.pdf
Please tell me this is not true. Of course, couldn’t they do it at birth without anyone even knowing it?
time for homebirth
Something to think about.
Specifically, the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders:
• Fails to recommend informed written consent requirements for the storage and use of
newborn DNA for research and other purposes.
• Recommends the Committee simply “Develop national guidance for consent or dissent
for the secondary use of specimens...” (p. 20)
• Asserts a public claim on the DNA of newborn citizens. (p. 1)
• Claims that newborn blood is necessary for “population surveillance.” (p. 3)
• Claims that newborn screening test development is not research. (p. iv)
• Does not support the 22 state genetic privacy laws and the 5 state genetic ownership laws
that may or do require consent. (p. 8)
• Does not include compelling statistics from the Univ. of Michigan study that found the
public appalled by unconsented government storage and research (p. 12).
• Recommends parent education instead of informed parent consent requirements that
would enforce such education. (p. iv)
• Claims that state screening programs are charged with “stewardship” of newborn DNA
samples—‘ensuring appropriate use’—when they are actually charged with simply
testing each newborn. (p. 6)
• Fails to acknowledge the constitutional Fourth Amendment genetic privacy and property
rights of individuals.
Short and sweet:
RE: HHS Request for Public Comments on “Considerations and Recommendations for National Guidance Regarding the Retention and Use of Residual Dried Blood Spot Specimens after Newborn Screening,” – a Briefing Paper issued April 26, 2010 by HHS through the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children.
My objections to this potential policy approach can be summed up very quickly. There should not be any ‘public claim’ to the DNA of any citizen, apart from those that exist in law enforcement or obtained through due process in the investigation of a crime or its aftermath.
The Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution states:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The government does not own the citizenry, it is the other way around.
Yours very sincerely,
It is true at the State level currently. I sent a letter to the state requesting that my boy's new born blood sample be destroyed after testing. I got a signed letter back documenting that my request would be honored and the samples have been discarded. Thats the best I could do, hope they honored their part of the deal.
To find out how your State handles the screening samples go to the link WobblyBob posted or just go here:
Done.
If one had homebirths and did not have to use children for deductions I imagine they would not have SS numbers.
If one had homebirths and did not have to use children for deductions I imagine they would not have SS numbers.
They push for this at the same time they push to overturn AZ’s (FEDERAL) immigration law .
they’re wacked.
They have to blood type the baby. And then there's the placenta.
Nobody can “control” somebody else’s DNA just by possessing a sample of it. And if this can help get a national biometric ID system in place, I’m all for it. I’m tired of people committing all sorts of crimes, including vote fraud by both citizens and illegal aliens that steals my tax dollars and neutralizes my votes, by pretending to be someone other than who they really are. We have NO way of really determining who anyone IS, and that needs to change.
My e-mail was along the same lines.
obama is truly a precursor of the Antichrist, and Sibelius is a cold-hearted ice queen who does his bidding!!!!
ping
just........
WOW!!!!
OMG! Well, consider the source. At least it wasn’t anyone passing for a conservative who said that.
Mighty strange comments from someone who picked a screen name implying that he believes in less government.
Hey, if you think it’s fine to have our nation turned into a crime-ridden 3rd world socialist hellhole by people who are getting away with a broad range of fraud using false identities, you’re entitled to your opinion. But keep in mind that neither you nor anyone else will have any rights to their own DNA or property or anything else, once that mission is accomplished.
For starters, we can’t prove anyone is here illegally, if we have no way of actually identifying the people who are here *legally*. An ID system based on cards or “papers” will never be worth squat. Only a biometric system has any hope of working.
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