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by procombo 1812 days ago
Don't U.S. states all already do this immediately after birth?

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18945-do-you-care-wha...

https://www.healthnutnews.com/cbs-dna-from-newborn-blood-sam...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23136040/

In my state even when you home-birth you are required to submit samples. You have a right to "request" they destroy the samples after 90 days, but in the fine print it says they will process your request but they won't guarantee that all samples/digitizations will actually get destroyed.