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Why is DNA profiling bad?
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Re: Why is DNA profiling bad?
Sep 22, 2007, 13:52
The 'patenting' of genomes or sequences in a genome is a 'legal' abstraction... Obviously, merely because someone has sequenced a portion here or a portion there of an entire DNA genome does not give them ownership over your right to reproduce!

Even in cases where a lab sequences the entire genome of an organism, this is a discovery, not an invention.

Of course, pharmaceutical industry lawyers will claim otherwise, but the fact is, they are merely manipulating an abstraction (patent law) to make claims on nature itself.

Law is not the final word against the backdrop of nature... DNA predates law by three billion years, at least. Yes, some clever lawyer may claim that you and I contain 'patented' genetic material, but that's no more valid in the end than a priest telling us that we are doomed to eternal damnation if we do not give our heart to Jesus. It's a subjective, self-serving claim they are making.

Here's an interesting article on the subject....
http://www.hgalert.org/topics/lifePatents/patent.htm

Human 'Laws' are abstractions, THEY are inventions. Nobody 'owns' our DNA.
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