The Genetic Panopticon: The dangerous reality of mandating newborn DNA

When Gomoa Central MP Kwame Asare Obeng recently unveiled a Private Member’s Bill proposing to criminalise “paternity fraud” and mandate DNA testing for every newborn in Ghana, it touched a raw and deeply emotional nerve. The argument is seductive in its simplicity: no man should be tricked into raising a child that is not biologically […]

By Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie