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Gloria Steinem

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem has charged the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with putting women's health at risk and wasting tax dollars by funding cruel and pointless animal experiments.
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Cruel Experiments? Not In Our Name!

Animals are being tortured in cruel experiments that claim to address women’s health issues. Monkeys have their ovaries cut out to simulate menopause. Rats have their legs broken to model osteoporosis. Pregnant rabbits are forced to hop on treadmills to study exercise in pregnancy. The list of senseless atrocities goes on and on. These studies teach us nothing about the health of human women, and they waste millions of tax dollars that are badly needed for clinical trials, epidemiology, and health-care services. Find out more.

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A PETA investigation reveals that Columbia University is torturing primates to study women’s health! Metal pipes are inserted into monkeys’ heads in order to observe the effects of stress on their menstrual cycles. Pregnant baboons are continuously injected with nicotine and cocaine to see how the drugs deform their babies. View Now.


"Helping" Women Shouldn't Hurt Animals
“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.”
—Alice Walker, Preface to The Dreaded Comparison