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New #, Optimistic Progress for MA Dissection Choice Bill 

(Fall 2001)—The Dissection Choice bill’s lead sponsor, Representative Louis L. Kafka, reports that Chairman Larkin and the Education Committee have moved our bill favorably out of Committee. Formerly H. 1360, “Dissection Choice,” has been renumbered (a common practice on the Hill) and is now H. 1252. The bill needs your immediate help to continue on its path to the Governor’s desk, so please act NOW.

It is nothing short of a “crime” that students of conscience have to wait this long for the support they deserve. Today’s legislators, spurred on by the hard work of Rep. Kafka and the 39 other bipartisan supporters, are trying to see to it that this is the year for dissection choice in Massachusetts.

Please help them help animals and help compassionate students. The bill will spare animals cruel deaths and help keep caring students in science by giving them the right to study in a compassionate way.

Contact your state senator and representative and politely request that they vote H. 1252 the Dissection Choice Act into law.

Find legislative contact information at: www.vote-smart.org or www.magnet.state.ma.us or call your city or town hall directly.

The phone number for the State House is 617-722-2000.

The following are cosponsors of H. 1252. Please take a moment and commend them for their compassion and enlightened attitudes:

Rep. Ruth B. Balser, (D), District in the Counties of Norfolk and Middlesex
Rep. Jarrette T. Barrios, (D), District in the County of Middlesex
Sen. Stephen Brewer, (D), District in the Counties of Worcester, Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin
Rep. Carol C. Cleven, (R), District in the County of Middlesex
Sen. Cynthia Stone Creem, (D), District in the Counties of First Middlesex and Norfolk
Rep. Brian M. Cresta, (R), District in the Counties of Essex and Middlesex
Rep. Brian S. Dempsey, (D), District in the County of Essex
Rep. Carol A. Donovan, (D), District in the County of Middlesex
Sen. Susan C. Fargo, (D), District in the County of Fifth Middlesex
Rep. William C. Galvin, (D), District in the County of Norfolk
Rep. Brian Paul Golden, (D), District in the Counties of Suffolk and Norfolk
Rep. Lida E. Harkins, (D), District in the County of Norfolk
Sen. Robert L. Hedlund, (R), District in the Counties of Plymouth and Norfolk
Rep. Reed Hillman, (R), District in the Counties of Hampden, Hampshire and Worcester
Rep. Christopher Hodgkins, (D), District in the County of Berkshire
Rep. Frank M. Hynes, (D), District in the County of Plymouth
Sen. Cheryl A. Jacques, (D), District in the Counties of Norfolk, Bristol and Middlesex
Rep. Peter J. Koutoujian, (D), District in the County of Middlesex
Rep. Patricia D. Jehlen, (D), District in the County of Middlesex
Rep. David P. Linsky, (D), District in the Counties of Norfolk, Middlesex
Rep. Louis Kafka, (D), District in the County of Norfolk
Sen. David P. Magnani, (D), District in the Counties of Middlesex, Norfolk and Worcester
Rep. Ronald Mariano, (D), District in the County of Norfolk
Sen. Joan Menard, (D), District in the County of First Bristol
Rep. Mary Jeanette Murray (retired), (R), District in the County of Plymouth
Rep. Thomas J. O’Brien, (D), District in the County of Plymouth
Rep. Eugene L. O’Flaherty, (D), District in the County of Suffolk
Rep. Anne M. Paulsen, (D), District in the County of Middlesex
Rep. Douglas W. Petersen, (D), District in the County of Essex
Rep. George N. Peterson, Jr., (R), District in the County of Worcester
Rep. Anthony Petrucelli, (D), District in the County of First Suffolk
Rep. Susan Pope, (R), District in the County of Middlesex
Rep. Marie J. Parente, (D), District in the Counties of Worcester, Norfolk
Rep. Kathi-Anne Reinstein, (D), District in the Counties of Suffolk and Middlesex Sen. Pamela P. Resor, (D), District in the Counties of Middlesex and Worcester Rep. George Rogers, (D), District in the County of Bristol
Rep. Jose Santiago, (D), District in the County of Essex
Rep. Mary Jane Simmons, (D), District in the County of Worcester
Rep. Ellen Story, (D), District in the Counties of Franklin and Hampshire
Sen. Susan C. Tucker, (D), District in the Counties of Second Essex and Middlesex.