Please tell me this is not true. Of course, couldn’t they do it at birth without anyone even knowing it?
time for homebirth
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.
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:
They have to blood type the baby. And then there's the placenta.