Mandatory DNA Testing for Newborns and Parents would Violate their Rights

By Michael A. LaFerrara

At the behest of “fathers’ rights advocates,” New Jersey Assemblyman Gilbert Wilson (D) has “proposed a measure . . . that would require all newborns—and their parents—to undergo genetic testing to create a record should questions arise about whom the father or mother is.”

A justifiably angry NJ Star-Ledger columnist, Kathleen O’Brien, minced no words:

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