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Originally Posted by Vanilla
I'm excited about it too! I'm really keen to know whether I'm likely to get breast cancer when I'm older as my grandmother got it at 21 so there is a higher risk for me. She also has has trouble with her reproductive system which I've had trouble with too. I certainly agree about the privacy part, it's nobodies business what you body's health conditions might be.
New Zealand is getting very close to being openly accepting of people with disabilities and mental illness. There's still more work to be done to make offices and public places more disability friendly.
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You should watch the video, she does a great job of explaining the ethical issues surrounding genetic privacy - like should you tell your siblings/parents what you know about your genome because it might affect them, etc, or is it none of their business.