by Tom Henderson

Some parents are creeped out by the Orwellian image of the government keeping babies' DNA without their parents' knowledge or consent and they're filing lawsuits. Members of the Texas Legislature felt the same chill down their spines last year.
They passed a law that allows doctors in the state to keep and use the DNA samples for research, but requires parents be informed. The law also gives parents the option of having their children's leftover blood samples destroyed after screening.

Doctors have 60 days to destroy the blood samples after receiving the official notification form from the parents.

Most states don't have such laws. CNN reports DNA samples are still stored indefinitely in Florida. And genetic testing continues to be done without parents' consent, Brad Therrell, the director of the National Newborn Screening & Genetics Resource Center, tells CNN.  Read more...

Watch these video on the topic 

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• Your Baby's DNA Secretly taken per Order of Government

by ANC Youth League President, Julius Malema

It was in 1994 that Nelson Mandela told the world that "Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world." But 15 years later we are still struggling to get rid of racism in South Africa. Despite the many progressive strides that have been recorded in the new democratic dispensation, a significant legacy of racism exists in all spheres of society.

Racist attitudes, stereotypes and actions continue to characterise our society. Only a few weeks ago the incident at the University of the Free State showed its face again, more than a year-and-a-half after African workers were shamefully humiliated by white racist students. But racism is not confined to the Free State, and it is not only alive in schools and institutions of higher learning. It exists in the workplace and in the corporate sector. It is evident in every city and town all over the country. It is building stereotypes every single day. What is revealed in the media only tells a very small part of the story because the majority of our people continue to suffer in silence and isolation all the time.   Read more...

By SHAILA DEWAN

Anti-abortion groups have erected scores of billboards here with an alarming message: “Black children are an endangered species.”

The groups responsible insist that they are not exaggerating, despite contrary federal data. The billboards, which show a close-up of a worried-looking African-American boy, are an effort to highlight data showing that black women get a disproportionate number of abortions, especially in Georgia, and that the number in Georgia is increasing.  Read more...