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Building a DNA database: the federal government has just enacted two bills related to DNA. The first would drive the collection of DNA from all infants. The second would attempt to prevent the DNA that is collected from being misused.(PRIVACY)
The passage of two bills in the Senate and the House, and the recent signing of those bills into law by President Bush, provides an object lesson in the type of logic that governs the coercive state. Simply put, the actions of an intrusive government necessitate further actions by that government to attempt to undo the unintended negative consequences of the initial government actions, but pushy politicians simply don't care. Or so it seems.
The bills in question are known as the Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007 and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008. The Newborn Screening Act passed via an unrecorded voice vote in both houses. ...
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