The Genetic Bill of Rights
(The Council for Responsible Genetics, Spring 2000)

1.  All people have the right to preservation of the earth's biological and genetic
diversity.

2.  All people have the right to a world in which living organisms cannot be patented,
including human beings, animals, plants, microorganisms, and all other parts.

3.  All people have the right to a food supply that has not been genetically
engineered.

4.  All indigenous peoples have the right to manage their own biological resources,
to preserve their traditional knowledge, and to protect these from
expropriation and biopiracy by scientific, corporate or government
interests.

5.  All people have the right to protection from toxins, other contaminants, or actions that can harm their genetic makeup and that of their offspring.

6.  All people have the right to protection against eugenic measures such
as forced sterilization or mandatory screening aimed at aborting or
manipulating selected embryos or fetuses.

7.  All people have the right to genetic privacy including the right to prevent
the taking or storing of bodily samples for genetic information
without their voluntary informed consent.

8.  All people have the right to be free from genetic discrimination.

9.  All people have the right to DNA tests to defend themselves in criminal proceedings.

10.  All people have the right to have been conceived, gestated, and born
without genetic manipulation (25).