Thanks to you and thousands of other Physicians Committee supporters, St. Elizabeth Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio, has stopped killing pigs to train surgeons!

We launched this campaign back in January 2023 by filing a federal complaint and posting three billboards. We followed that with a physician-led demonstration and four mobile billboards that circled the medical center for the day. Then, in March this year, we sent St. Elizabeth a letter signed by 646 of our physician members and ran print newspaper ads in Youngstown for three weeks. And 31,584 of you sent messages to the hospital’s leaders!

Finally, just days ago, St. Elizabeth confirmed to us that it has replaced animals! Surgery residents will no longer cut into live pigs to practice dozens of invasive procedures. Instead, they will perform those procedures on cadavers and medical simulators based on human anatomy.

St. Elizabeth now joins 226 other medical centers across the U.S. and Canada—including Stanford, Yale, the Mayo Clinic, and 14 other programs in Ohio—that all produce expert surgeons without killing animals.

Please help us keep this momentum going! Take a minute to ask the University of Colorado to follow suit and replace animals in its surgery program.

Thank you to our members for always jumping into action, the 646 physicians that eagerly lent their names to our cause, and to our Ohio-based doctors that led the charge as our local spokespersons. You are all truly inspiring, and we couldn’t do it without you.