There are very severe genetic diseases that can be minimized if (for example) diet is strictly controlled from birth (phenylketonuria or PKU)....or, feed infants normally for a month or two, and they die from severe mental retardation at age five or six... Or Maple Syrup urine disease...or galactosemia, or CF...knowing early (before frank symptoms show) means better outcomes.
I agree that the government shouldn't be cataloging the DNA results, but the testing not only saves the government money (since these diseases are so overwhelming the state winds up paying for treatment) but they also save lives, or at least improve the quality of life.
Emergency Medicine - saving the world from themselves, one at a time.
"Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."
I make the ADL soil themselves. And that makes me very happy
