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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?
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,
Done.
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.
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A blood sample wouldn’t even be needed — a cheek scraping would suffice. I’d be very concerned, of course, about this data pointing back to even a region — under Bummercare, it might be used to throttle back care to certain regions genetically expected to encounter a greater than normal illness rate (or worse illnesses) in later life.
Sounds like something which could put an end to innocent people being convicted of crimes...
I wonder how giving birth or being born fits in to the Interstate Commerce Clause.
Research and other purposes. Do you trust the government with a piece of your flesh?