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MN Senate votes to warehouse all newborn citizen DNA for genetic research without parent consent
Citizens' Council on Health Care ^ | 4-1-08 | Wobbly Bob

Posted on 04/01/2008 7:01:34 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB

A pending bill on the floor of the Minnesota House and Senate will strip citizens of genetic privacy and DNA ownership rights. Today, a state genetic privacy law requires informed parent consent for government testing, ownership and research on the DNA of the newest Minnesota residents. The Minnesota Department of Health wants to eliminate the informed consent requirements. A bill to remove consent requirements for government ownership and genetic research will soon be voted on by the Minnesota House and Senate.

Thus far, the state of Minnesota has illegally collected and claims ownership to the DNA of 780,000 children (soon to be voting adults) and has provided the DNA of 42,210 children to genetic researchers without parent consent. Approximately, 73,000 children are born in Minnesota every year. About 4.2 million children are born across the nation. All of them are losing their genetic privacy and DNA ownership rights. Listen in to an interview of Twila Brase, president of CCHC, as she discusses what's at stake for all citizens in the pending legislation

(Excerpt) Read more at cchconline.org ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: dna; genetic; mn; newborns
Twila Brase, president of CCHC, makes the following statement: *"What good is a state genetic privacy law if the taking of every child's DNA at birth is exempt from its protections?"

*"The Senate just voted to strip citizens of parent rights, privacy rights, patient rights and DNA property rights. They voted to make every citizen a research subject of the State government, starting at birth.

They voted to let the government create genetic profiles of every citizen without their consent."

1 posted on 04/01/2008 7:01:34 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Gattaca, redux./Just Asking - seoul62.........


2 posted on 04/01/2008 7:03:24 PM PDT by seoul62
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To: seoul62

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7OYCmynrRU

yep, they all want us to be snowplow drivers or teachers union stooges.


3 posted on 04/01/2008 7:07:11 PM PDT by WOBBLY BOB (Conservatives are to McCain what Charlie Brown is to Lucy.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

In the future, if a parent wants to raise a free citizen, they will not be able to deliver the baby in a hospital anymore.


4 posted on 04/01/2008 7:08:45 PM PDT by microgood
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5 posted on 04/01/2008 7:15:43 PM PDT by realdifferent1 (What do the people of China call their good plates?)
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Looks like me and my future wife’s going to give birth in South Dakota.


6 posted on 04/01/2008 8:49:31 PM PDT by TypeZoNegative (I'm An American Engaged To Another American, we're not a mixed couple.)
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The basic indicator of liberty is that a free person owns his own body and owns his own work. Now the State claims a property right to the essential code of each unique human.

When someone else has a superior claim to a basic part of you, it changes the nature of your relationship: you are no longer free, even if the State allows you almost all the the trappings that the citizen was previously used to.

If the people of MN do not drive a stake through the heart of this affront to liberty, they should not be surprised when other slavery predicates follow as surely as night follows day.


7 posted on 04/01/2008 9:17:49 PM PDT by theBuckwheat
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Good luck, TypeZ.

South Dakota has the disease as well. Too many MN people moving there. They’ll be a big government state before long. Lots of people there still believe in freedom but they’re getting overwhelmed by the Minnesotans moving there.

SD is where I grew up and went to college. It’s been a couple of decades since I lived there, but I visit the parents every month and it’s coming.

Scary stuff. Orwellian, at best.


8 posted on 04/01/2008 9:23:31 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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Keep your laws off my body.

The right to privacy .........

- Speaking in dummycrat voice


9 posted on 04/01/2008 9:51:31 PM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
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BUMP


10 posted on 04/02/2008 4:46:14 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
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First I learned my kids' life code is on file. So nice to know. Thus far, the state of Minnesota has illegally collected and claims ownership to the DNA of 780,000 children (soon to be voting adults)
11 posted on 04/02/2008 5:10:47 AM PDT by DManA
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Home school and home birth.


12 posted on 04/02/2008 5:12:06 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: definitelynotaliberal

They want to be in every room of your house (except the bedroom) and every cell of your body.


13 posted on 04/02/2008 5:12:12 AM PDT by DManA
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B-b-b-but, I thought we had a conservative Governor in Tim Pawlenty? Surely a solid conservative like Timmy will crack down on privacy invasion and secretive gub'mint activities...right?...huh?...anybody?
14 posted on 04/02/2008 2:23:58 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Don't cheer for Obama too hard - the krinton syndicate is moving back into the WH.)
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