NSW mum calls on government to introduce laws for life insurance companies preventing decisions based on genetic tests [Video]

A NSW mum is calling on the government to put in place laws that prevent life insurance companies from what she says discriminates against people based on their genes.

Kristie Ivone was diagnosed with breast cancer last September, and later discovered she carried a cancer gene linked to four different types of the disease.

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The Albury mum fears her children may be deterred from undergoing genetic testing, to see if they carry cancer genes, if laws protecting the community are not put in place.

“It’s something I haven’t chosen for myself, so of course that feels really unfair,” Ivone told 7NEWS.

“I can’t be discriminated against for any other reason.

“Not based on my age or my gender or my ethnicity or any other reason, but I can be based …