Newborns’ DNA Routinely Harvested For Government Bio Banks

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Newborns’ DNA Routinely Harvested For Government Bio Banks

Genes are considered the property of big brother

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, Feb 8th, 2010

he government is harvesting samples of DNA from every newborn child in the country, storing them in monolithic bio banks and providing them to outside researchers and other agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, all without the consent or knowledge of parents.

It sounds like the stuff of dystopian nightmare, and it is, but it is also reality.

At Infowars we have been tracking and reporting the story for years, now it has hit the headlines once again this week with CNN probing the issue via the case of Isabel Brown (pictured) from Florida.

Isabel’s mother Annie Brown was confused when she was told by health authorities that her daughter had a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis, because she had never consented for genetic testing to be carried out on her child.

Ms Brown then learned that genetic testing of all newborn babies is routine in every state, and that DNA is kept indefinitely by the government, without parents ever knowing.

“We were appalled when we found out,” says Brown, who’s a registered nurse. “Why do they need to store my baby’s DNA indefinitely? Something on there could affect her ability to get a job later on, or get health insurance.”

Watch CNN’s report:

[Click the Source in order to watch it]

In April 2008, President Bush signed into law a bill which formerly announced the process that the federal government has been engaged in for years, screening the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months of birth.

Described as a “national contingency plan” the justification for the law S. 1858, known as The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, is that it represents preparation for any sort of “public health emergency.”

The bill states that the federal government should “continue to carry out, coordinate, and expand research in newborn screening” and “maintain a central clearinghouse of current information on newborn screening… ensuring that the clearinghouse is available on the internet and is updated at least quarterly”.

Sections of the bill also make it clear that DNA may be used in genetic experiments and tests, both by the government and by researchers chosen to handle the DNA samples and the information that goes with them.

Read the full bill here.

Many have described the law as the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database, like the one in the UK.

In 2006 and 2007, then, Senator Obama, filed legislation that would create a national DNA database. The same bill was filed by Sen. Patrick Kennedy in 2008. The bills required parental consent, but all three died in the Senate.

Health care expert and prominent critic of DNA screening, Twila Brase, president of the Citizens’ Council on Health Care produced a detailed analysis (PDF) of the DNA law in which she warns that it represents the first program of populationwide genetic testing.

Brase states that S.1858 and H.R. 3825, the House version of the bill, will:

* Establish a national list of genetic conditions for which newborns and children are to be tested.
* Establish protocols for the linking and sharing of genetic test results nationwide.
* Build surveillance systems for tracking the health status and health outcomes of individuals diagnosed at birth with a genetic defect or trait.
* Use the newborn screening program as an opportunity for government agencies to identify, list, and study “secondary conditions” of individuals and their families.
* Subject citizens to genetic research without their knowledge or consent.

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

“The public is clueless. S. 1858 imposes a federal agenda of DNA databanking and population-wide genetic research. It does not require consent and there are no requirements to fully inform parents about the warehousing of their child’s DNA for the purpose of genetic research.”

The government may outsource genetic research to private companies, who may manipulate, alter or splice the DNA in any way they see fit. Hundreds of samples have already been used in government comissioned studies.

Such information represents a goldmine to employers, insurance companies, medical institutions, and big pharma.

Under such conditions we are faced with the prospect of a society that is literally the mirror image of the nightmarish vision outlined by Aldous Huxley in his 1932 novel Brave New World, where individuals are categorized in a social hierarchy according to their genetic traits.

DNA of newborns has already been harvested, tested, stored and experimented with nationwide.

The National Conference of State Legislatures lists for all 50 states, as well as the District of Columbia, the various statutes or regulatory provisions under which newborns’ DNA is already being collected.

In addition, all 50 states are now routinely providing these results to the Department of Homeland Security.

The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007 merely established this practice within the law.

The History Channel recently featured a report on the issue as part of its Eternal Life program. Here is the segment followed by a local news report on the matter from kxan Austin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mdy0XzBuKiQ

Here is a more detailed report from kxan news, aired last November:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq3pTn1wDuE

In certain states, authorities are required to destroy a child’s DNA sample if a parent demands they do so. Ludicrously, parents wishing to do this must fill in a form like this one from Texas or this one from Minnesota.

In other states, parents have to put their request in writing, however, there is no legal requirement for states to destroy the samples.

The practice of taking DNA from all newborns is not limited to the U.S.

In the UK, a similar DNA harvesting program was rejected in 2005 by The Human Genetics Commission, who cited cost and ethical problems in a report to government ministers.

However, DNA profiling of all newborn babies has since been called for by lawmakers and senior police officers.

In December 2009, a Dublin hospital was revealed to have built a secret database containing the DNA of almost every person born in the country since 1984 without their knowledge.

The retention of newborn screening cards has also caused controversy in Australia and New Zealand where the DNA has been used by police to help to solve crimes. A sample in New Zealand was used to identify the father of a dead child against the wishes of the mother.

There is no doubt that the practice is in operation all over the developed world.

Unless this practice is widely exposed and publicized, we could find ourselves sleepwalking towards the basis for a new eugenics movement, the practice of “perfecting” the human race through genetic manipulation, previously endorsed by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, and toyed with by the likes of Adolf Hitler.

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Why is it crap like this (and the downfall of the economy) began when the Democrats took control? GW might have signed it but he signed everything.
 
and yet most All LDS folks that want to live in a compound and use mid-wives are pegged as crazies.
:alienhuh:
 
Why is it (the downfall of the economy) began when the Democrats took control?

you can't possibly be serious. for the 10,000th time... the economy was tanking well before "the democrats took (exclusive) control."

pull that wedge outta yer panties man.
 
yeah, um, bush was in office until 2009, gonz. :bgtup:

i just love the "he signed everything" so it must somehow be the democrats' fault. that's just so precious.

but of course, the REAL recession started at the exact moment that obama took over. there were no antecedents. it was launched directly from a vacuum. an economically unprecedented event!!! economists and historians are scratching their heads on this one for sure.
 
The Democrats took Congress in November of 2006.

Shit began going downhill in 2007.
 
You guys just believe almost everything that comes from a nut job source, don't you?
 
apparently they do.

oh if only gonz knew that prisonplanet is a haven for 20 year-old twits that wear che guevara t-shirts and wanna "take down the man," while happily still getting allowance checks from the bank of mom and dad in suburbia.
 
You guys just believe almost everything that comes from a nut job source, don't you?

apparently they do.

oh if only gonz knew that prisonplanet is a haven for 20 year-old twits that wear che guevara t-shirts and wanna "take down the man," while happily still getting allowance checks from the bank of mom and dad in suburbia.

Where does the article err?
 
how about

"Unless this practice is widely exposed and publicized, we could find ourselves sleepwalking towards the basis for a new eugenics movement, the practice of “perfecting” the human race through genetic manipulation, previously endorsed by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger (OMFG!!!!), and toyed with by the likes of Adolf Hitler."

you wonder why people doubt the validity of a site that specializes in wildly imaginative conspiracy theories? perhaps you should start posting shit from the weekly world news. bigfoot spotted!!!
 
how about

"Unless this practice is widely exposed and publicized, we could find ourselves sleepwalking towards the basis for a new eugenics movement, the practice of “perfecting” the human race through genetic manipulation,

The government has admitted to using the sample DNA for research/experiments.

previously endorsed by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger (OMFG!!!!), and toyed with by the likes of Adolf Hitler."

This did actually happen by both accounts though, so what is your contention?

you wonder why people doubt the validity of a site that specializes in wildly imaginative conspiracy theories? perhaps you should start posting shit from the weekly world news. bigfoot spotted!!!

Feel free to correct me in my above comments.
 
how about

"Unless this practice is widely exposed and publicized, we could find ourselves sleepwalking towards the basis for a new eugenics movement, the practice of “perfecting” the human race through genetic manipulation, previously endorsed by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger (OMFG!!!!), and toyed with by the likes of Adolf Hitler."

Is that statement incorrect or does it just fall under your umbrella of dumb shit?

They may be morons, I've never been to that site. That doesn't mean everything they say is incorrect.
 
What good is DNA evidence if the perpetrators DNA isn’t on file?

What good are fingerprints on a gun if the perp'sfingerprints aren't on file... the answer? They're good AFTER you arrest the perp and use their DNA (through a swab) to check against evidence DNA.
 
This did actually happen by both accounts though, so what is your contention?

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Eugenics dates back long before Hitler and the family-planning lady. It was supported by the likes of Alexander Graham Bell and the sterilization of 'feeble minded' people was legal/required in several states. The idea behind it still is in effect in your immigration policies.

It was a breeding program..and not a genetic modification program.. which is why it bears no relation to what you're on about.
 
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