By using these blood samples in this way, you not only violate rights, but you also undermine the willingness of parents to partake in such tests, which can have very dangerous results for the infants or mothers concerned (Rhesus antibodies, etc.), and for health monitoring. Not only should a total access ban to this information be in place, but police officers and others abusing it should be fired and imprisoned for endangering public health.
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Not only illegal, but potentially dangerous
By using these blood samples in this way, you not only violate rights, but you also undermine the willingness of parents to partake in such tests, which can have very dangerous results for the infants or mothers concerned (Rhesus antibodies, etc.), and for health monitoring. Not only should a total access ban to this information be in place, but police officers and others abusing it should be fired and imprisoned for endangering public health.