Age, Race, Religion, Sex, Disability and DNA
March 2, 2009
It’s one thing for Congress to pass legislation to protect the public. It’s quite another for the various implementing agencies to hammer out regulatory language that effectively puts that legislation to work. Now, nine months after Congress passed the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act, known as GINA, the deadline is looming for federal agencies to release rules spelling out how they will interpret and enforce that historic legislation, which makes it illegal for insurers and employers to discriminate on the basis of people’s genetic information. (Science Progress)
