{"id":57358,"date":"2024-03-18T05:28:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T10:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57358"},"modified":"2024-03-18T05:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T10:28:06","slug":"daily-beast-the-creepy-and-unconstitutional-government-database-of-newborn-babies-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=57358","title":{"rendered":"Daily Beast: The Creepy and Unconstitutional Government Database of Newborn Babies\u2019 DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Daily Beast: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-creepy-unconstitutional-government-database-of-newborn-babies-dna\">The Creepy and Unconstitutional Government Database of Newborn Babies\u2019 DNA<\/a> by Daryl James &amp; Brian Morris:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Expectant parents invite doctors and nurses into the delivery room, not police officers. But law enforcement agencies have backdoor access in New Jersey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The intrusion starts within 48 hours after birth, when maternity ward workers prick an infant\u2019s heel to collect blood for laboratory testing. The screening allows for early detection of rare conditions like cystic fibrosis and sickle cell disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All states do this. But afterward they destroy the paper cards they use to collect dried bloodspots. New Jersey keeps the blood.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Beast: The Creepy and Unconstitutional Government Database of Newborn Babies\u2019 DNA by Daryl James &amp; Brian Morris:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57359,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57358\/revisions\/57359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}