“It was not illegal to do so without a patient’s permission.”
That should have been the end of the discussion, but that’s not how things work. There are people, many of them, who make a nice living off of suing. Since there is so much collective guilt, it’s not surprising that they would try to rake in a few million.
“It was not illegal to do so without a patient’s permission.”
Well, it should have been. If you don’t own your own DNA, then what do you own?
Probably one of the most disreputable, amber lamps chasing racist lawyers in America.
Those cells came from a tumor biopsy. The family should be gratified that something good came from the tragedy of her death. Instead, they grabbed for the cash.
Also, it was not “her DNA”. It was mutated, and if she had her way she would have seen every strand of it gone from her body.