Everyone should know that if you were born in a hospital in the US, they already have your dna. There's no protecting it. They mandate a pku on every newborn. The sample is picked up, taken away and stored at the state level. I believe this has been since the 50's.
I know what pku is, and believe me, I've already been through all this. I've known about it for 10 years. They have my daughter's sample. They didn't get my son's because I gave birth to him at home and told my midwife I will NEVER do pku, and I informed her what is being done to it so she started alerting all her patients. You can start here. https://biononymous.me/newborn-dna-storage-raises-serious-privacy-concerns/ If you dig you'll find old news reports from parents trying to get their kid's samples destroyed and how impossible the state is making it for them. A lot has already been scrubbed though. It's much harder to find this info today than it was 10+ years ago when it was openly reported by the local news.
We tecently had our son, rejected all shots / tests except potassium k because they guilt tripped the hubby... They seemed less anal about the shots / tests this time around with our last child... I assume that means we didn't do this pku? Or did I miss something?
This was four months ago so perhaps they no longer require this?
I always thought they did this tbh because I was born at home, didn't get a "birth certificate" until three years later, and when I went to deploy in the military they almost denied me deploying due to this "delayed" birth certificate. Not sure if they're connected but I always suspected it could have been because of not having my DNA from when I was a baby... Not sure, couldn't make sense of it otherwise.
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Everyone should know that if you were born in a hospital in the US, they already have your dna. There's no protecting it. They mandate a pku on every newborn. The sample is picked up, taken away and stored at the state level. I believe this has been since the 50's.
I know what pku is, and believe me, I've already been through all this. I've known about it for 10 years. They have my daughter's sample. They didn't get my son's because I gave birth to him at home and told my midwife I will NEVER do pku, and I informed her what is being done to it so she started alerting all her patients. You can start here. https://biononymous.me/newborn-dna-storage-raises-serious-privacy-concerns/ If you dig you'll find old news reports from parents trying to get their kid's samples destroyed and how impossible the state is making it for them. A lot has already been scrubbed though. It's much harder to find this info today than it was 10+ years ago when it was openly reported by the local news.
Interesting..
We tecently had our son, rejected all shots / tests except potassium k because they guilt tripped the hubby... They seemed less anal about the shots / tests this time around with our last child... I assume that means we didn't do this pku? Or did I miss something?
This was four months ago so perhaps they no longer require this?
I always thought they did this tbh because I was born at home, didn't get a "birth certificate" until three years later, and when I went to deploy in the military they almost denied me deploying due to this "delayed" birth certificate. Not sure if they're connected but I always suspected it could have been because of not having my DNA from when I was a baby... Not sure, couldn't make sense of it otherwise.