Testing Your Future

Every state in the country requires that infants be tested for a list of obscure diseases. Before long, some states could move on to DNA testing of all newborns. Now is the time to decide a critical question: How much do we want to know and when do we want to know it?

by Jeff Wheelwright, Photography by Catherine Ledner

From the July 2003 issue; published online July 1, 2003

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