It highlights the importance of choice in multiple different ways, and empathetically outlines a situation many, myself included, did not even know had happened.

I’m grateful to have discovered this novel, and I hope it had the impact on others as it has had on me.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/magazine/eugenics-movement-america.html

https://americanhistory.si.edu/girlhood/wellness/talking-about-sex/experimenting-girls-of-color

https://www.history.com/.amp/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study

https://apnews.com/article/business-science-health-race-and-ethnicity-syphilis-e9dd07eaa4e74052878a68132cd3803a30:T64d,Round up to 3 1/2. I had this both as a book and as an audio and went simultaneously between the two. For one reason, the audio narration became a bit monotonous and I started to zone out. Take my Hand- I’m not certain how the title fits into the theme of the book which is based on a true story. It’s about a well off black woman whose father is a respected doctor. She decides to follow a path into medicine and become a nurse for a clinic in a poor section of town. She meets a family with two young girls that live with their grandma and father, after their mother had died, in a one room shanty on a hill. She becomes invested in the family and goes above and beyond to make sure they have all they need including finding them low income housing in town. Her visits consist of giving shots of Depo to the girls as birth control at ages 9 and 12. As she becomes aware that all the nurses are giving shots to young girls that are not sexually actively, she begins searching for the truth and stops giving shots. However, her supervisor convinces the father and grandma to let her (the supervisor) take the two girls to town for shots, but instead they sterilize them from ever having children. A court case ensues and it is found out that this is happening all over the country in low income neighborhoods, thus a class action suit.
I was really hoping to lik

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