Govt stakes claim to every newborn's DNA.

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Posted: April 03, 2008

11:15 pm Eastern

 

By Bob Unruh

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

 

An Orwellian plan that has state and federal governments staking claim

to the ownership of every newborn's DNA in perpetuity is advancing under

the radar of most privacy rights activists, but would turn the United

States' citizenry into a huge pool of subjects for involuntary

scientific experimentation, according to one organization alarmed over

the issue.

 

" We now are considered guinea pigs, as opposed to human beings with

rights, " Twila Brase, president of the the Citizens' Council on Health

Care, <http://www.cchconli ne.org/> a Minnesota-based organization

familiar with the progress in that state.

 

She warned ultimately, such DNA databases could spark the next wave of

demands for eugenics, the concept of improving the human race through

the control of various inherited traits. Margaret Sanger, founder of

Planned Parenthood, advocated eugenics to cull people she considered

unfit from the population.

 

In 1921, she said eugenics is " the most adequate and thorough avenue to

the solution of racial, political and social problems, " and she later

lamented " the ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human

beings who never should have been born at all. "

 

Lawmakers in Minnesota recently endorsed a proposal that would exempt

stockpiles of DNA information already collected from every newborn from

any sort of consent requirements.. That means researchers could utilize

the DNA of more than 780,000 Minnesota children for any sort of research

project whatsover, Brase said.

 

 

 

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