all new born babies to have DNA Taken?

Question

What do you think ? I hear the goverment want to take DNA from all new born babies and have it on a data base so if they needed to find some one for a crime or ID then it would be a lot easyer I for one think it would be a great idear . It would be a lot easyer to find missing children & adults plus if you've nothing to hide why worry

Answer 1

This is the thing we need but i reckon all children should have a microchip fitted to in side there bodys so if they do go missing,taken or killed at least they will no who the child is and where they came from. some people might think i am a bit daft for saying this but a least it will not take to long to find out who the child is.there is got to be a way of doing it has they allready do it with animals so why not children

Answer 2

Having a collection of everyone's DNA does not stop or solve crime.

All such a list will do is enable a future UK.gov, or any other gov for that matter, to keep tabs on it's citizens.

One thing govs fear more than anything else, including war and pestilence, is it's own people. The people are revolting etc.

UK.gov right now has another fear to add to it's list of phobias and fears. It's major fear at present is a powerful and independent judiciary, especially the English judiciary.
UK.gov dominated by the Scotch has already done serious damage to English law and legal system - it will do more. It wants total power over the law and the people of Engerland.

Having a child's DNA on file is not going to find that child if it goes missing.

The same or similar agurment is being applied to the proposed/planned UK ID card - politicans talks to the people as though they think we're thick.

Neither a collection of DNA samples nor an ID card will do anything what-so-ever to stop terrorism and/or crime and worse.

What stops/reduces crime/war etc is how a baby boy is treated by his mother while he is growing up.

It's that simple, since it is these baby boys who grow up either to become saints or sinners. It has nothing to do with baby girls, who are born saints and grow up to be angels.

Answer 3

How often have I heard "If you have nothing to hide, why worry?" Is that your idea of an intelligent debate on the matter? Also, you fail to explain further how these DNA samples would make it easier to find missing people.

You assume that this information/material will always be used for good (benign) purposes, that it will be kept safe, and not fall into the wrong hands. Why? What if you find out 20 yrs down the line it is being used against you - it'll be too late.

You'd be in trouble if govt decide all those deficient in the spelling gene have to be put to death. If you acquiesce to this and other lunatic ideas, we will have no rights left in this crappy country.

Answer 4

In some ways it is a good idea. Like you say, it would be easier to identify criminals/victims of crime, and missing people. Also, it would help the health service, if they knew what diseased people had inhereted, without having to wait for the symptoms to develop.

However, as many government databases have shown, this information is not alway safe, and there are always people trying to get this information. Insurance companies, for example, can see what diseases you are more/less likely to get, or inherit, and so charge you more because of it. Also, some people may not be able to work, if employers get hold of this information, and decide they don't want someone to work for them who could develop an inherited disease in later life.

Personally, I would rather that if they feel they have to bring this system in, they made it an opt in system, and when people are 16 they can choose to be put on the database or not. And if parents want their children to be put on it at a young age, they can do so. But i don't think it should be compulsary.

Answer 5

I don't believe it will help find missing children, although it HAS helped eliminate the little girl in Belgium from the search for Madeleine McCann.

I think it's a good idea though and believe it should be compulsory for all adults to give a DNA sample as well, regardless of religious beliefs.

One reason, and one only, for my viewpoint: If a sexual deviant can be given to know that his actions WILL condemn him through a DNA trace, then I reckon he'll think twice about acting out his fantasies on an innocent third party - be it a child, or an adult of either sex.

Answer 6

All part of the Orwellian future that the Labour party has in mind for us. In the 60's & 70's the Labour party looked to Moscow as the font of all knowledge and political leadership and we all know how they treated their people.

Be ready to be stopped and questioned/searched by the police, taken into custody without trial for as long as the government wants and taxed to bankruptsy to pay for this.

NO this is a bad idea.

Answer 7

I've heard that they are already taking it from the umbilical cords of babies. As the umbilical cord ceases to be a part of a person's body after birth, it is hard to see how there could be any objection unless (and this seems to be a highly likely scenario) the nursing staff get umbilical cords mixed up.

Answer 8

BAD IDEA!

it takes a very naive person to think people couldnt steal the DNA and fit you up for a crime

besides...

http://www.nhsconfidentiality.org/?p=19

Answer 9

no no no

don't we already have too much interference and central control in our lives?

recent governments don't have a great track record of secure data management and looking after the individual. I shudder ot think of the potential abuse that such a scheme could offer.

Answer 10

Sounds kinda weird...and scary..knowing how easily the government would be able to track you down. I mean, not being able do a thing without the government knowing you were there...hehe how funny. So much for all the criminals being born.