Signed into law April 24, 2008, the oh-so innocent sounding Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007 establishes a national database of newborn DNA. 

This law establishes collection and warehousing of newborn DNA for scientific research and requires no parental consent or knowledge. 

As reported by Minnesota state health department, 42,210 of the 780,000 children whose DNA have been taken have been subjected to genetic research. 

As usual, the government tells us that they are looking out for our best interests and have the utmost concern for our health and safety. 

In this age of bio-engineering and designer diseases engineered to attack individuals or groups based on genetic differences, is this the kind of wholesale control of the population's genetic makeup we want to transfer to the government? 

In Government, Nothing Is Sacred