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Senator Cantwell introduces GAPA companion bill

August 3, 2010 by Diana

If you receive our e-newsletter you found out some sad news this morning – at least four of the 202 chimpanzees living at the Alamogordo Primate Facility who are slated to be transferred to Texas and made available for biomedical testing are children of the Cle Elum Seven.

We were able to determine this thanks to Project Release and Restitution and the information they have available on their website.

Learn more about this transfer of 202 chimpanzees from our July 16th blog post and view today’s newsletter with details of whose children are among the group: August e-newsletter.

There is hope for these and all chimpanzees in biomedical research in the United States, however. Today, Washington State Senator Maria Cantwell introduced a companion bill to the Great Ape Protection Act, first introduced in the House of Representatives as HR 1326. Passing GAPA would mandate that federally-funded chimpanzees be retired to sanctuary and would outlaw the use of chimpanzees in painful and invasive biomedical research.

Learn more about GAPA and how you can help from the Seattle Times editorial co-written by Executive Director Sarah Baeckler and from the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine.

This is a crucial time for chimpanzees and we have the power to help them. Thanks to everyone who is speaking out for them.

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  1. Theresa says

    August 3, 2010 at 5:33 pm

    We will never stop speaking out for them! They all need to be in a safe, happy place without being stuck and prodded and treated like test subjects. They deserve better! I will write every senator in Washington to make it happen if I have to.

  2. Denice says

    August 3, 2010 at 6:05 pm

    I think this is the first step…………. we need to keep the heat on, their feet to the fire. We need to make them so sick of hearing from us they release these chimps into sanctuary just to keep their phones quiet and their mail bags empty.

  3. Felicity says

    August 3, 2010 at 7:59 pm

    EXACTLY, Denice! It’s all amount momentum, please keep the heat on, everybody. Diana has given us some great links over the past week. Please take 5 minutes out of your day to send those emails and make those phone calls. Being in the public eye is what will make them uncomfortable, and we need to make it clear that A LOT of people are watching their every move.

    I know the CE 7 would do it if they could for their fellow chimps, but especially their babies, David, Heidi, Levi and April.

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