ANALYSIS
State governments collect the DNA of nearly every newborn baby in the US. Most parents don’t even know

Blood taken from newborns via a heel prick has been used in medical research without parental consent and given to law enforcement without a warrant. In some states, it's stored indefinitely.

LifeSiteNews.com
Thu Oct 19, 2023 - 4:07 pm EDT

(LifeSiteNews) –– Most new parents have no idea that by the time they leave the hospital with their newborn, a sample of their child’s blood has already been sent to the state government. Depending on the state, the government may store and use their child’s blood for anywhere from months to indefinitely – and not only is it legal, it’s actually mandated by law.

Each American state has its own newborn screening program through which healthcare professionals who deliver babies are required to collect a blood sample in order to test for rare genetic or metabolic diseases. Only in two states, Maryland and Minnesota, are healthcare practitioners even required to obtain parental consent. Wyoming law technically requires parents’ “written consent,” but is worded vaguely enough that in practice, it amounts to a system that must be opted-out of rather than opted into. Utah allows a “religious exemption” that mandates the parents report their religion to the state – and it must be “a specified, well recognized, religious organization whose teachings are contrary to the testing required by Utah law for each newborn infant.”

The issue of state governments harvesting the DNA of almost every newborn has received sporadic attention from health-freedom advocates over the years.

“Within 48 hours after the birth of a baby, the heel is pricked, newborn blood is squeezed onto a card with special filter paper, and the card is sent for analysis to the State government laboratory or the laboratory under contract with the State Department of Health,” the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF) explained in 2007. “At least 4.0 million newborn babies are tested every year in the United States.”

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Dear RM Agents and Readers,

This makes me think of an X files show, perhaps Fight the Future, but think it was more in the line of the series. Fox and Scully are in an underground type bunker and there are files upon files and they find Scully's name.

Just a flash that went through my mind; this obviously being done with an intended purpose of placing us each in the proper box; whatever that may be.

This seems far from something a free society should be engaged in.

Many Blessings,
CrystalRiver