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Henrietta Lacks and the fight for genetic justice (newhumanist.org.uk)
2 points by leephillips on June 2, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



She's long dead and using the cells from her biopsy caused no harm - quite the opposite in fact.

Forcing this through a lens of racial injustice is, I suppose, par for the course these days where identity politics subsumes all other considerations. But how is suing biology labs really helping anyone here? The descendent cells from her cancer are not her.




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