The Declaration of Independence states individual rights include the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To relate to bioethics, we look at the ethics of medical and clinical health which our Public Health Ethics book describes, tries to produce the best possible outcomes through the development and implementation of individualized protections or civil liberties. It also states that cost and resource availability are secondary considerations to individual rights and protections. In short the ethics of medical health is, the individual benefit is greater than the individual risk. In the matter of HeLa cells the individual(s) whose rights were neglected is Henrietta Lacks. We might also conclude the interest of her children’s
