Science Needs Your Cells: New York Times Op-Ed by Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch
Biospecimens are essential to medical progress, but just medical waste to patients. Let's promote the science.
From the op-ed:
Many aspects of Ms. Lacks’s story reflect genuine injustice: the racism that characterized the health care system of her day; the suffering of her young family after her death; their own lack of access to health care. But should we be outraged by what happened to her cells, and could happen to our own?
Actually, no.
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