The Money Trail
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has financed O’Hagan’s experiment from 2004 to 2006 to the tune of $200,496. But the money trail doesn’t stop there. More than $400,000 of taxpayer money has gone into O’Hagan’s pregnant rabbit studies in the last decade:
- From 1999 to 2001, the NHLBI gave O’Hagan $100,000 for her pregnant rabbit research.
- From 1998 to 2000, O’Hagan also received $59,578 from the American Heart Association for other work with rabbits on treadmills.
- From 1996 to 1999, the NHLBI gave O’Hagan $101,217 for preeclampsia (pregnancy-induced high blood pressure) research in pregnant rabbits. This was a particularly barbaric study in which metal pipes were surgically implanted in the rabbits’ skulls, and injections were made into their brains.
