That doesn't mean the _results_ of such testing will be automatically released to the parents or others. It will be done as a precautionary measure with the results stored for possible future requirements.
Just as a birth certificate contains simple information as to date of birth, location, name, mother's name, etc. - the birth certificates of the future will contain an encapsuled "genetic code" of the baby.
It would probably become good practice to immediately release the DNA results to the _parents_ in confidence. This guarantees that the father will _know_, proof positive, that the child his wife has just produced is indeed his own. Even if the father is _not_ present or even unknown (don't laugh), the genetic information will be _there_, in case at some point in the future the father re-enters the scene.
Hopefully, this will all-but-shutdown those wrongful paternity cases where a man ends up burdened with the cost of child support for a child that he had nothing to do with genetically.
- John
Here's the almost 28% info.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/11/national/11PATE.html?ex=1125547200&en=9fa0e56bd6d0c97a&ei=5070
I agree the test should be done as a routine birthing procedure. If the husband is not the father, he should be given an opportunity decide his choices (at a minimum 3 days, should be 30 days). If they ever get divorced, he should not be forced into making child support payments by a court.
Life's tough.
DK