HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                      2811

(2) ARISES THROUGH THE IMPROPER PROCESSING OF THE
INFORMATION IN THE GENETIC MATERIAL.

13-102.

The General Assembly finds that:

(1)  Everyone in this State is entitled to the highest
level of health care attainable and protection from inadequate
health services;

(2)  Hereditary AND CONGENITAL disorders are often
costly and tragic and sometimes deadly burdens to the health and
well-being of the citizens of this State;

(3)  Detection through screening for hereditary AND
CONGENITAL disorders can:

(i) Lead to alleviation of the disability of
some hereditary AND CONGENITAL disorders; and

(ii) Further the       understanding of and

accumulation of medical knowledge    about other hereditary AND

CONGENITAL disorders that may lead to   their eventual alleviation
or cure;

(4)  Hereditary AND CONGENITAL disorders differ in
severity, in that:

(i) Some have little effect on the normal
functioning of an individual; and

(ii) Some may be alleviated, wholly or partly,
through medical intervention and treatment;

(5)  Most, if not all, individuals are carriers of
some hereditary disorder and are substantially unaffected by that
fact;

(6)  A carrier of a hereditary disorder should not be
discriminated against or stigmatized;

(7)  Medical knowledge of the discovery, diagnosis,
treatment, and cure of hereditary AND CONGENITAL disorders is
expanding rapidly and often at an uneven rate, so that hereditary
AND CONGENITAL disorders are discovered long before their
treatment or cure can be found;

(8)  Legislation designed to alleviate the problems
associated with specific hereditary AND CONGENITAL disorders may
tend to be inflexible in the face of rapidly expanding medical
knowledge;

(9)  The policy of this State on hereditary AND
CONGENITAL disorders should be: