Testing times for maintaining freedom

DNA database for babies and digital ID looming in 2030

- by DR. MICHAEL POULIN

The NHS is the UK government-funded medical and health care service that everyone living in the country can use without being asked to pay the full cost. And it is common knowledge that a DNA test is very expensive. The government plans to pay for it with taxpayers' money but without asking for their consent.

If we have a dilemma — cost versus reason — the reasons must be quite solid. A common medical practice knows that almost all inherited genetic diseases are identified without DNA tests by the age of three to five years.

In other words, these tests are not necessary at the proposed scale.

According to BBC: 'Every newborn baby in England will have their DNA mapped.'

It seems that the word 'mapped' is the key - so far, the mapping of people to DNA has been the preserve of the judicial system aiming at suspected criminals.