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My point is, if they take a swab and then freeze it, they have your DNA and can use it any time they like.

Lets say for instance your daughter happens to have some trait that is special. She goes to an abortion clinic and does some simple protesting. Then she gets rounded up by the police and taken to the station.

There she gets swabbed. And yes, they only process the sample now for identification.

But later on, someone realizes your daughter has eyesight that allows her to see twice as good as others in dim light.

This is determined to be a great trait. Now there’s a sample out there that can be purchased or even requisitioned from a government agency.

I’m sure there are other traits that would be desired.

Is it really something we should be complacent about, letting the government have a sample of our bodily fluids to use as they see fit?

At the very least, a person should have to be convicted of a felony before they could take their DNA.

Eventually it will occur to someone that human beings are almost clones of one another ~ oh, BTW, that's already been figured out ~ really not much difference individual to individual ~ but there are still millions of differences that make it possible to uniquely identify each of us with a simple test.

If they want to clone your daughter they will be able to do that quite soon ~ but why? Gene therapy for CF and other genetic based diseases or problems is being developed now. Someone with a better gene would probably not mind sharing it with the world.

Regarding seeing better in the dark, lots of folks already have that. And seeing RED with maybe 4X the accuity of everyone else ~ I can do that. Anyone needs a red gene, they got it. I'm not picky.

I draw the line at combining human DNA with animals and Democrats though.