Genetic Nondiscrimination Bill Clears Congress(via Wired)
A bill to protect Americans from discrimination based on their genetic makeup has passed the Senate by a vote of 95-0, sending it to the president's desk via a final vote in the house that is considered a formality. President Bush is widely expected to sign the legislation into law.
So hopefully this will set precedence for avoiding discrimination as the Human Genome Project discovers more and more traits associated with your DNA.
Good for you Congress.
2 comments:
if this bill passes, and a gene is found for homosexuality, that could end discrimination completely within that community.
it would be interested to see.
Only if you note that
"GINA, specifically, would bar employers and insurance companies from using genetic information in human resources decisions or determining insurance eligibility." They are not barred from actuallu having this information and thus "informally" using it.
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