Le New York Times critique vivement les tests ADN français !

22.10.2007

« Pseudoscientific Bigotry in France »

Immigration issues bring out the worst instincts in politicians who should know better. Congress showed that earlier this year. Now it is the turn of France's Parliament. It is moving toward final approval of an ugly new law that would introduce DNA testing as a potential basis for excluding prospective immigrants hoping to reunify with family members already living in France.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

DNA testing can be a useful tool in establishing criminal guilt or innocence. But it has no rightful place in immigration law. Modern French families, like modern American families, are constituted on many bases besides bloodlines and genetics. This is something most French politicians and voters should be aware of.

They should also be aware of the cautionary lessons of modern French history. Under the Nazi occupiers and their <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vichy</st1:place></st1:City> collaborators, pseudoscientific notions of pure descent were introduced into French law with tragic consequences.

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