Michigan Residents: Voice your Support for Dissection Choice Bill!
Animalearn, the education department of the American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS), works to end
the harmful use of animals in education, and supports laws that allow students the choice to opt out
of dissection. Please help us stay on the path toward fulfilling our mission.
Animalearn needs your help to make Michigan the tenth state with a dissection choice law. Such a law would grant students in K-12 public
schools the right to oppose dissection without compromising their education. By law, students who object to dissection must be provided
with viable alternatives, which are more humane, cost-effective, and provide an equal or better learning experience. Currently, nine states
(California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Virginia) have established dissection choice
laws and several other states have instituted local policies that allow students to say no to harming animals. Michigan students should be
afforded this same opportunity.
What You Can Do:
The Michigan Dissection Choice Bill
(HB.4254)
has been sitting in the House Education Committee, and it is time for the chair of the
Committee, Representative Brian Palmer, to schedule the dissection choice bill for a hearing. The longer this bill sits in the Education
Committee without any action, the longer that Michigan students have to wait before they are given the legal right to choose to not dissect
or harm animals in the classroom. If you are a Michigan resident, and a constituent of a Committee member, please contact them and urge them
to ask Representative Palmer to schedule HB.4254, the Michigan Dissection Bill, for a hearing as soon as possible to make this option a reality
for those Michigan students who want to make this humane choice. Republican committee members are of particular importance when calling or writing,
and it is also important to contact Representative Palmer directly. You can find the name of your Representative
here.
