An early start in establishing a relationship with a gynecologist can help solve any doubts or questions that arise throughout development and be a vehicle for learning more about the body and its functions.
American exceptionalism would not allow for this story to be told, that is, the story of Henrietta Lacks. Her life began in a shack in Roanoke, Virginia, now, what her mother, Eliza Lacks Pleasant, did not know was that she had just birthed a medical marvel. It would be decades later that Henrietta’s genetic code would prove to be most astonishing.