Twila Brase writes from the Capitol:<\/p>\n
It’s 1:15 a.m. and I want to report the good news. We won! The gavel came down at midnight, the Minnesota legislature<\/span> adjourned in the nick of time, and the Baby DNA warehousing bill to repeal genetic privacy and DNA ownership rights at birth, never came up for a vote!<\/p>\n
This is your success!<\/p>\n
Your citizen petitions, the many people who attended the legislative hearings, your emails and phone calls to legislators, the Sue Jeffers<\/span> show on KTLK,<\/em> CCHC’s new Protect Baby DNA cards, the Glenn Beck Program<\/span><\/em>, Reps. Tom Emmer and Mary Liz Holberg<\/span>, Sen. David Hann’s great questions during the Senate hearing, the “Do NOT Repeal Genetic Privacy” stickers we all wore, my opportunity to speak at the Tea Party, our meeting with\u00a0 Governor Pawlenty, the CCHC report on newborn screening<\/span> and eugenics, the filing of the lawsuit against the Department, local TV news coverage (esp. WCCO-TV<\/em>), the prayers of many people, and the unexpected informational hearing on genetic privacy led to this success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Twila represents the Citizen’s Committee on Healthcare, and she’s been lobbying against the Baby DNA bill – which would allow the state to collect a DNA database from the state’s newborns without any form of parental consent – for years.<\/p>\n