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FRIDAY - Baby DNA Deadline for Public Comments
Citizens' Council on Health Care ^ | 6-23-10 | twila brase

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 ...


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: baby; babydna; bigbrother; comments; dna; governmentcontrol; healthcare; hhs; intrusive; lping; mn; obamacare
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TO COMMENT: SEND EMAIL TO HHS [screening@hrsa.hhs.gov] DEADLINE: Friday, July 25, 2010 REFER TO: "Considerations and Recommendations for National Guidance Regarding the REtention and Use of Residual Dried Blood Spot Specimens after Newborn Screening" (the report issued by the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (SACHDNC)

http://www.cchconline.org/pdf/CCHC_Comments_on_SACHDNC_Rec_6_23_10_NBS.pdf

1 posted on 06/24/2010 12:49:58 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Please tell me this is not true. Of course, couldn’t they do it at birth without anyone even knowing it?


2 posted on 06/24/2010 12:53:12 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

time for homebirth


3 posted on 06/24/2010 12:57:00 PM PDT by Chickensoup (The Acting President....is an incompetent puppet of Soros.)
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To: Chickensoup

Something to think about.


4 posted on 06/24/2010 12:59:02 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: ilovesarah2012

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.


5 posted on 06/24/2010 1:03:15 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
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To: WOBBLY BOB

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,


6 posted on 06/24/2010 1:04:11 PM PDT by newheart (History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
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To: ilovesarah2012; WOBBLY BOB
"Please tell me this is not true. Of course, couldn’t they do it at birth without anyone even knowing it?"

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:

50 States - How Long State Governments Keep Baby DNA

7 posted on 06/24/2010 1:04:59 PM PDT by voteNRA (A citizenry armed with rifles simply cannot be tyrannized)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Baby DNA Deadline for Public Comments ....


( The Federal Government/Big Brother )


" WE know where all of you are at all the time. watch your step, we control every aspect of your lives, and Freedom and Privacy is just a fantasy.
( even if your a law biding citizen )... "
8 posted on 06/24/2010 1:24:02 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (There is no civility in the way the Communist/Marxist want to destroy the USA)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Done.


9 posted on 06/24/2010 1:28:54 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist with no rational argument.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

If one had homebirths and did not have to use children for deductions I imagine they would not have SS numbers.


10 posted on 06/24/2010 1:29:44 PM PDT by Chickensoup (The Acting President....is an incompetent puppet of Soros.)
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To: ilovesarah2012

If one had homebirths and did not have to use children for deductions I imagine they would not have SS numbers.


11 posted on 06/24/2010 1:29:51 PM PDT by Chickensoup (The Acting President....is an incompetent puppet of Soros.)
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To: newheart

They push for this at the same time they push to overturn AZ’s (FEDERAL) immigration law .

they’re wacked.


12 posted on 06/24/2010 1:40:14 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (drain the swamp! ( then napalm it and pave it over ))
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To: ilovesarah2012
Of course, couldn’t they do it at birth without anyone even knowing it?

They have to blood type the baby. And then there's the placenta.

13 posted on 06/24/2010 2:43:15 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: WOBBLY BOB

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.


14 posted on 06/24/2010 7:30:00 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: newheart

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!!!!


15 posted on 06/25/2010 11:21:56 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: wagglebee; little jeremiah; bamahead; Eric Blair 2084; Arthur Wildfire! March; nw_arizona_granny; ..

ping


16 posted on 06/26/2010 9:31:34 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: GovernmentShrinker; 50mm; darkwing104; Old Sarge; bamahead; wagglebee; trisham; little jeremiah; ...
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.

just........

WOW!!!!

17 posted on 06/26/2010 9:37:01 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: GovernmentShrinker; metmom

OMG! Well, consider the source. At least it wasn’t anyone passing for a conservative who said that.


18 posted on 06/26/2010 9:42:18 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb

Mighty strange comments from someone who picked a screen name implying that he believes in less government.


19 posted on 06/26/2010 9:46:51 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

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.


20 posted on 06/26/2010 9:48:17 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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