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Committee hears 'Queenie's Law' to ban painful dog experiments at public universities
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Lawmakers considered House Bill 4254, dubbed Queenie’s Law, which would bar painful dog experiments at public universities after testimony described decades of invasive studies at Wayne State University.
The House Regulatory Reform Committee on May 20 heard extensive testimony for and against House Bill 4254 — called “Queenie’s Law” by supporters — which would prohibit painful experimental procedures on dogs at public universities in Michigan.
Ryan Merkley of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine urged lawmakers to pass the bill, saying recent federal and institutional moves show a broader shift away from canine models in research. Merkley said public records obtained from Wayne State University document repeated invasive heart-failure experiments on dogs, described the university’s own past characterizations of those studies as speculative (“potential,”…
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