Passing the House of Representatives on a voice vote, S. 1858 has been
sent to President Bush for signature. The Newborn Genetic Screening
bill was passed by the Senate last December. The bill violates the
U.S. Constitution and the Nuremberg Code, writes Twila Brase,
president of the Citizen's Council on Health Care (CCHC). "The DNA
taken at birth from every citizen is essentially owned by the
government, and every citizen becomes a potential subject of
government-sponsored genetic research," she states. "It does not
require consent and there are no requirements to inform parents about
the warehousing of their child's DNA for the purpose of genetic
research. Already, in Minnesota, the state health department reports
that 42,210 children of the 780,000 whose DNA is housed in the
Minnesota 'DNA warehouse' have been subjected to genetic research
without their parents' knowledge or consent.

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The federal government lacks the Constitutional authority as well as
the competence to develop a newborn screening program, states Rep. Ron
Paul, M.D. (R-TX). He states that all hospitals will probably scrap
their own newborn testing program and adopt the federal model,
whatever its flaws, to avoid the loss of federal funding.


"Drafters of the legislation made no effort to ensure that these
newborn screening programs do not violate the privacy rights of
parents and children," Dr. Paul noted.


Ms. Brase has called on President Bush to veto the bill.


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