By Selwyn Duke

Bob Unruh at WorldNetDaily.com has an interesting article about a state of Minnesota plan to collect the DNA of newborns without parental consent.  Writes Unruh:

The state of Minnesota has advanced a plan to own the DNA of newborns, preserving it in a warehouse for use in genetic research,
experimentation, manipulation, and profiling, according to an advocacy
organization seeking to protect the privacy of that individual
information.

‘Citizen DNA is citizen property. The government should be required
to ask, not allowed to take,’ said Twila Brase, president of the Citizens’ Council on Health Care, a Minnesota-based organization familiar with the progress in that state.

Brase is absolutely correct.  I’m sure statists can provide 100 reasons why automatically collecting genetic information is beneficial, but there’s are a couple of great reasons why it’s a bad idea. 

First, there is the privacy issue about which everyone talks.  Then, this strikes me as the objectification of man.  We shouldn’t be collecting body tissue — no matter how small the sample may be — from people and cataloging it as if they’re animals without consent.  Once you allow government to cross that line, once you allow that precedent to be established, what’s next?  Well, it may not be next, but somewhere down that road lies the Chinese practice of harvesting organs from executed political dissidents without any approval but the government’s.

This, by the way, is one of the reasons why using fetal stem cells in research is morally wrong.  The end doesn’t justify the means.

Read the rest of the WND piece here.

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