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January 24, 2024
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Portland, Ore. – Dressed in pig mask and “bloody” medical institution robes and retaining indicators that learn, “Use Simulators, Now not Pigs,” PETA supporters will rally within Oregon Well being & Science College’s (OHSU) board of administrators assembly the next day, urging the college to finish its invasive procedures on reside pigs in its obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) doctor residency coaching program.
When: Thursday, January 25, 9:30 a.m.
The place: Robertson Existence Sciences Construction, Room 3A001, 3rd Fl., 2730 S. Moody Ave., Portland
PETA supporters urge OHSU’s board of administrators to finish pig mutilations all over a prior protest. Credit score: PETA
“Good and delicate pigs are minimize open and mutilated whilst they’re nonetheless alive for those merciless and unnecessary OB/GYN coaching drills at OHSU,” says PETA Vice President Shalin Gala. “PETA is looking on OHSU to undertake awesome, non-animal era—as different OB/GYN residency coaching techniques have already accomplished—that advantages physicians and sufferers with out harming pigs.”
Data acquired through PETA display that a minimum of 64 OB/GYN citizens at OHSU have minimize into as much as 48 reside feminine pigs, dissected their organs, and carried out different invasive surgical procedures on them in makes an attempt to be told human drugs. The entire animals have been later killed.
At the side of taking different movements, PETA despatched a letter to Dr. Amy Stenson, director of the college’s OB/GYN residency program, and wrote to Dr. Aaron Caughey, the college’s OB/GYN division chair, noting that dozens of an identical techniques within the U.S. use animal-free coaching strategies, comparable to reasonable human-patient simulators, complex digital truth programs, and interactive laptop fashions.
PETA—whose motto reads, partially, that “animals don’t seem to be ours to experiment on”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
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