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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. House Education Committee Members: Brian Palmer (R) repbrianpalmer@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-5892 Leslie Mortimer (R) lesliemortimer@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-5242 Robert Gosselin (R) robertgosselin@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-8660 Tom Meyer (R) tommeyer@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-9852 Jack Hoogendyk (R) jackhoogendyk@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-8872 Barb Vander Veen (R) repbarbvanderveen@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-9830 Lorence Wenke (R) lorencewenke@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-9119 Richard Ball (R) richardball@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-7937 David Hildenbrand (R) rephildenbrand@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-8714 Tom Pearce (R) tompearce@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-5697 John M. Proos (R) johnproos@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-3652 David Robertson (R) davidrobertson@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-5810 Hoon-Yung Hopgood (D) hoon-yunghopgood@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-5934 Fred Miller (D) fredmiller@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-5893 Kathy Angerer (D) kathyangerer@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-7757 Virgil Smith (D) virgilsmith@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-6404 Brenda Clack (D) brendaclack@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-5997 Aldo Vagnozzi (D) aldovagnozzi@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-8501 Gino Polidori (D) ginopolidori@house.mi.gov fax: (517)373-7538 Or, please send letters/phone calls of support to your Representative at: Capitol Building PO Box 30014 Lansing, MI 48909-7514 (517)373-0015
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