Queenie's Law (HB 4254 and SB 127) would prohibit painful experiments at publicly funded institutions in Michigan. It was named after a dog who suffered and died at Wayne State University in heart failure experiments that continue to this day. Since 1991, the experiments have killed hundreds of dogs, wasted $15 million in public money, and failed to help a single patient.

According to public records obtained by the Physicians Committee, Wayne State employees cut open the dogs' chest cavities, insert devices in and around major blood vessels, stab catheters into their hearts, and “tunnel” cables and wires under their skin and out between the dogs' shoulder blades. The dogs who survive the surgeries are forced to run on treadmills while experimenters drastically raise their heart rates using implanted devices. This is repeated for days, weeks, or even months. By design, every dog will eventually die during the experiments—when their body gives out or an implanted device breaks or malfunctions.

Wayne State's botched surgeries have led to many dogs suffering internal injuries that cause their chest cavities to fill with blood, making it painfully difficult to breathe, before they are killed. Other dogs die in their cages.

We don't need to harm and kill dogs to improve public health. Patient trials, population studies, and the use of donated and diseased human hearts are producing human-relevant results. In 2015, the Texas Heart Institute stopped using dogs altogether, stating that “the canine physiology is not the optimal match.”

Please help us move Queenie's Law forward! Contact your state representative and senator today.