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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Consistently Inconsistent Part II

From Logical Lady Sue Jeffers:

Last week Lady Logician put up a post on the inconsistencies of the left when it comes to privacy rights. One commenter took umbrage with her comments saying

Step 1: The government controls health insurance and decides what is covered and what isn't.
Step 2: Life long illnesses that require constant doctors visits aren't covered due to the high costs.
Step 3: They test your infant for long term health issues that could be draining on the govt run health insurance system.
Step 4: People abort infants that are found to have such illnesses due to financial burden on parents.
This is science fiction right now, but how close are we to this?


While there is a lot wrong with the comment, I want to focus on the highlighted section. This is not science fiction...it is science fact. World Net Daily, in a story about Minnesota's fight against this, notes that all 50 states and the District of Columbia all have various statutes or regulatory provisions on their books NOW that allow this to be done without parental permission. Not to be left out in the Big Brother sweepstakes, the Federal Government is also getting in on the Act. S1858 was passed out of the House of Representatives on a voice vote yesterday and sent on to President Bush for signature. S1858 would set up a NATIONAL DNA warehouse. Twila Brase at CCHC has the information.

Yesterday, in a voice vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to authorize the creation of a national DNA warehouse and broad-scale genetic research on the American public. S.1858, passed by the U.S. Senate last December, has been sent to the President for signing.
Twila Brase, president of CCHC makes the following statements:
"We are asking President Bush to veto this unethical, immoral, and unconstitutional bill. Congress has voted to strip citizens of genetic privacy rights and DNA property rights. The bill also violates research ethics and the Nuremberg Code."

Soon, under this bill, the DNA of all citizens will be housed in government genomic biobanks and considered government property for government research. 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.


So I must echo Lady Logician's question. Just where are the privacy advocates that push gay rights and abortion? Why are they so very silent on this issue?

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1 Comments:

  • Thanks Sue.. Minnesota need to catch up with Alaska on genetic rights.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:12 PM  

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