Who Cares About Your DNA?

Although I am in favor of DNA testing when it comes to the study of genealogy (which is non-compulsory, is personally paid for by each donor, and the results are kept anonymous for privacy reasons), it is a travesty to force mass groups of people to be DNA tested at the hands of the government. Not only does this violate people’s second amendments rights and their privacy, but it is an abuse of tax money and federal funds to do testing on a large group of people like this.

And for what reason? Crimes may have been committed (polygamy in the U.S. for one), but how will DNA testing help? It only helps in the case of rape or some other crime, and the victim must be tested immediately after the crime is committed. This is not why the DNA is being tested. The DNA being tested is each person’s individual DNA–whether small child, newborn baby, or adult. It appears the government wants to include these DNA results in some nationwide (or global) database.