A spokesperson for the US Bishops' Conference offered special praise to Rep Bart Stupak (D-MI) for his role in advancing the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (H.R. 493), which passed unanimously in the Senate on April 24 and then passed overwhelmingly in the House. The bill bars employers and health insurers from discriminating against individuals on the basis of their own or their family's genetic information.

Rep Stupak had championed one dimension of the bill that would bar discrimination on the basis of pre-natal diagnostic testing. The bill was originally authored by Rep Louise Slaughter (D-NY), and championed in the Senate by Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) among others.

Deirdre McQuade, Assistant Director for Policy and Communications at the USCCB Secretariat of Pro-life Activities, said, "Today the Senate took a stand for some of the most vulnerable members of the human family, whether born, yet to be born, or placed for adoption. No one should be discriminated against on the basis of genetic testing."