From IDA: The Great Ape Protection Act (H.R. 5852)

This is an important bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on April 17, 2008. The bill proposes a ban on the use of chimpanzees in invasive biomedical research and testing.

This long-sought, landmark bill has bi-partisan support and will prohibit the federal government from funding research on great apes, prevent the government from breeding chimpanzees for research, and require the transfer of approximately 600 chimpanzees in federal custody from laboratories to permanent sanctuaries.

About 1,200 chimpanzees are used in biomedical research in the U.S., which is far more than any other country in the world. To date, numerous other countries -- including Great Britain, Sweden, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Austria and Japan -- have banned or limited the use of great apes in experiments.

Please Take Action to ask your federal Representative to support and co-sponsor the Great Ape Protection Act (H.R.5852). If your Representative is one of the following individuals, please thank them for introducing/co-sponsoring H.R.5852 instead of responding to the alert:

H.R.5852 introduced by:
- Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.)
- David Reichert (R-Wash.)
- Jim Langevin (D-R.I.)
- Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.)

Original co-sponsors:
- Bruce Braley (D-Iowa)
- Tom Allen (D-Maine)
- John Campbell (R-Calif.)
- Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.)

Get contact information for your Representative: http://ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/leg-lookup/search.tcl

Thank you for contacting your Representatives to help end the use of chimpanzees for research.