[rabscuttle385]

Text of S.1858 Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007

[billorites]

Here's something for your data bank.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

So everyone’s DNA will be on file. They say it will be used for genetic research. A lie. Within a few years a law will be passed to allow it to be used for determining parentage. Then just about the time that the first subjects are old enough to commit their first crime, laws will be passed to use the database in “law enforcement”.
Criminals will know this, and obtain DNA from an innocent person and spread it around at a crime scene to get the innocent person convicted.

[Adder]

I am glad I am done having kids.

I would certainly refuse to allow any such samples be taken, knowing where they would end up.

Might as well just insert a chip into ‘em at the same time.

[Vaquero]

“The DNA taken at birth from every citizen is essentially owned by the government, and every citizen becomes a potential subject......

WELCOME to the Feudal Manor.

[CPOSharky]

Will this include anchor babies? Didn’t think so.

[Clint Williams]

This issue is already lost. States are passing laws to collect DNA from all registered sex offenders retroactively without "due process of law."

Naturally, nobody complained.

You want to see what the next attacks on your liberty and privacy are, look at those despised by society.

"When they came for the Jews..."

[mysterio]

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, was one of the few voices to warn of the dangers. Before the plan's approval, he said, "I cannot support legislation, no matter how much I sympathize with the legislation’s stated goals, that exceed the Constitutional limitations on federal power or in any way threatens the liberty of the American people. Since S. 1858 violates the Constitution, and may have untended consequences that will weaken the American health care system and further erode medical privacy, I must oppose it."

Yeah, he sure sounds nutty. Not.

[justiceseeker93]

Can someone please tell me how a Big Brother DNA data base containing info on every newborn child can help the coountry in time of “national emergency”? If a child has a genetic abnormality or is a carrier for such, it should be a private matter between the child’s family and his or her physicians and health care providers. Government should simply butt out. Privacy over one’s medical information is essential to a civilized society!

[takenoprisoner]

“The public is clueless”

So what’s new?

[takenoprisoner]

On a more serious note, at some time in our past clueless citizens surrendered their right to privacy. Perhaps it was for a false sense of security. Ron White got it right: “you can’t fix stupid.”

[endthematrix]

The Matrix has you...

[oldfart]

Ah yes, good ol’ Chris Dodd. Wasn’t it his daddy that brought us the Gun Control Act of ‘68? The one that was translated and copied from a similar Nazi law?

Sso Claire, is it time yet?

[ellery]

Appalling - bump.

[KarenMarie]

It says that consent is not needed and I do not even have to be informed.

But... what if I know of it and refuse? Is there and ‘opt out’?

[SecAmndmt]

Another building block for totalitarian socialism.

[Nebr FAL owner]

google “T-4 program” then think of this in terms of nationalized health care. The folks that are going to be running the old folks home will literally end up selecting people to be eventually euthanized when the budgets start having shortfalls.

[Nebr FAL owner]

google “T-4 program” then think of this in terms of nationalized health care. The folks that are going to be running the old folks home will literally end up selecting people to be eventually euthanized when the budgets start having shortfalls.

[cva66snipe]

The Bush Legacy. One shredded U.S. Constitution gone as a Bipartisan favor to the Dems. He has done more sickening deeds for them than they could have done to us in decades.

[processing please hold]

Lordy, Lordy, Lordy. As I live and breathe.