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At the beginning of the story, it tells how Skloot was a student in college and how she first learned of HeLa cells and learned that nobody knew where they really came from. This inspired her to go and learn more. She became really invested in learning the truth, and as time goes forward she gets to meet the family of Henrietta Lacks and form a bond with them.
I think that Rebecca Skloot would be glad that the Affordable Care Act was passed. It would mean that all of Henrietta Lacks' family could have access to quality health care and health insurance.

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In the story George Gey made some serious mistakes, he took Henrietta's cells without her permission or knowledge of him doing so and he did an autopsy without her family's consent too. But in the book you can also infer that he had good intentions. He had no motivation in taking her cells besides seeing if he could find "immortal cells" that could help in the study of cancer cures. He also took no profits from the HeLa cells even though if he had wanted to he could have made millions.
I think that George Gey would be for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I think that he would like this because in the book he develops pancreatic cancer that eventually killed him. Had the ACA existed during this time he could have gotten the treatment he needed with insurance that would help pay for it.

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“I’ve spent years staring at [Henrietta’s] photo, wondering what kind of life she led, what happened to her children, and what she’d think about cells from her cervix living on forever—bought, sold, packaged, and shipped by the trillions to laboratories around the world.” prologue, pg. 1
This quote is important because it's what led the author to investigate the life of Henrietta Lacks, which in turn led to world to learn about her and know where the true origin of HeLa cells.

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"Like many doctors of his era, TeLinde often used patients from the public wards for research, usually without their knowledge. Many scientists believed that since patients were treated for free in the public wards, it was fair to use them as research subjects as a form of payment." pg. 29-30
This quote is important because it showed that even though slavery was no longer legal, white doctors treated black people with no respect and as if they didn't deserve to have a say in what was done to their own bodies.

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"You know other countries be buying her for twenty-five dollars, sometimes fifty? Her family didn't get no money out of it." pg. 81
This was important because it showed how messed up it was that people who stole Henrietta's cells without her permission were making money off of it and not even thinking about giving it to her family.

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"‘I just need somebody I can trust, somebody that will talk to me and don’t keep me in the dark.’ [Deborah] asked me to promise I wouldn’t hide anything from her. I promised I wouldn’t." pg. 251
This quote is important because it shows the importance of honesty. It was also important because they were talking about when a man tried to rape Deborah and how she can't allow that to happen.

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The American medical industry often exploits and mistreats people who lack education and economic power. This disproportionately affects women and minorities.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a book about an African American named Henrietta Lacks. In the book she develops an aggressive cervix cancer. It tells of the HeLa cell, and how it came from her and how it is immortal. Throughout the story it tells about the life of Henrietta and her children, but it also tells the story of how the author discovered her and learned about her life.