Big Brother is watching you…and he’s keeping an even closer eye on your baby.
Docs routinely turn every delivery room into a CSI scene by scraping up baby DNA and sending it out for government- mandated tests without the parents’ consent or knowledge.
Welcome to the Brave New World, kid — where your future has already been written.
Think I’m exaggerating? They’re already using that DNA to screen the poor thing for diseases, then sharing the results with your insurance company. These tests usually don’t even reveal what the kid has — just what he has the potential to have.
But you know insurance companies. They’re always on the lookout for preexisting conditions.
Those samples are also shared with researchers. Again, don’t expect to find a permission slip in the mail.
But that’s not even close to the worst of it, because a recent report on CNN shows that at least nine states — including Florida, California and Michigan — keep those DNA samples indefinitely.
The rest store them for periods of time ranging from a few months to a few decades — but the genie’s out of this beaker. Once they have that sample, they can do whatever they want with it…for as long as they want.
If they find a disease risk, they can drug you up regardless of whether you actually have the condition. If employers get access to that data, they’ll hire and fire based on what they know about your DNA. Maybe someday they’ll find a criminal gene…so they can arrest you before you’ve committed a crime.
I know some of you are saying, "But they’d never do that!"
Hold your outrage and go get your Social Security card. Take a good look at those numbers. You probably have them memorized.
Why?
When they were created in 1935, those numbers were never meant to be used for personal identification. Now just look at this monster they’ve created. All you need is a name and those nine digits and you can peek into anyone’s life…or ruin it.
But those are just numbers. Think of how much more they could do with your DNA.
If you’re not scared yet, you should be.
Keeping watch over Big Brother,