Who is looking at your DNA?
She is furious and upset about what happened just hours after giving birth to little Caeden.
"I didn't question it," Nelson said. "I didn't have any idea to ask questions or anything. I just kind of do what they told me to do."
"All of my children's are banked and I had no idea," Nelson explained.
"A database of genetic test results of newborn citizens is growing in every state around the country," Twila Brase, R.N., a board member of the Citizens' Council on Health Care in St. Paul, Minn., said.
"Oftentimes what happens is that the hospital simply does it and it doesn't tell the parents that they have any rights to object," Brase said.
"The stored information is actually owned by the health department in every state, so the baby's DNA essentially becomes government property and then it's up to the government to decide what they want to let researchers do with that DNA," Brase said.
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