Considering the legacy of the subjugation of Black women's bodies in the advancement of medical
The remarkable discoveries in medicines and technologies in the United States would not have been possible without the experimentation and exploitation of black women's bodies. This is significant because black women are the worst off in almost all measurements of health when ironically, it was Henrietta Lacks, a black woman from Virginia whose cells were appropriated and developed to bring about discoveries in cancers and innumerable diseases. Doctors using the bodies of enslaved women developed critical cures in women's reproductive health.
