I am fifty pages from finishing the second part of the
Henrietta Lacks book. I that for science to take a person and completely wipe
away their life and identity is wrong. During the whole semester I have been
struggling with the idea of what is in the best interests for the society. It
is ok to hurt, kill, mane a few to spare the majority of society. This book
makes me never want to get a vaccine, take medication and just stop going to
the doctors all together. Not only the fact that scientist didn’t give that
Lacks or Henrietta herself any support is horrible. I guess through the other
readings in class this has happen to people but, the book shows a whole new
perspective on the whole issue. I have finally seemed the whole picture. I have
come to love Henrietta, how she was so sweet to her children, and always had
red nail polished toes. I feel terrible and ashamed to even have benefited from
her suffering. I wonder how many thousands, millions Henrietta’s there are in
the world even today. The thing I am most floor by is no new paper bothered to
even get her name right!
-Sarah Fiorella
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