Give Students a Choice on Dissection: Contact Your Michigan Legislators Today

The Issue
Michigan legislators are considering legislation that will allow students who have a moral objection to classroom dissection to use an alternative. Approximately six million vertebrate animals a year are killed and used for dissection in U.S. classrooms. Many students object to inhumane and unnecessary practice of killing animals when adequate alternatives are available. Students who use alternatives learn the material as well as or better than students who perform dissection. Alternatives are less expensive than the use of animals and this should be extremely appealing to schools during these times of tight budgets.

What You Can Do
H.B. 4254, which is in the House Committee on Education, proposes to give students a choice on dissection. Please contact your legislators and urge them to support H.B. 4254 which will allow students who have moral objections to dissection in classrooms to use an alternative. 
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Additional Information
» Problems with Dissection 
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