Posted on 03/06/2019 9:53:52 AM PST by John Semmens
California Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) has introduced a bill that would ban high school biology classes from dissecting animals as part of their learning about anatomy. Kalra says that “the current law allowing students with moral objections to opt out of the dissection lesson is unsatisfactory. For one, it still allows the callous exploitation of animals to go forward. Second, it allows students without moral scruples to receive a more complete education than their morally superior peers.”
“The whole premise of these dissections is founded on an unwarranted notion that humans are more important than other creatures,” Kalra observed. “Well, to me that’s immoral. If the knowledge gained from dissecting frogs is what it takes to educate better doctors or scientists I say it’s time we ditch our elitist pretensions. If we’re objective about it we’ll admit that human lives aren’t really any more valuable than those of frogs. Would the 60 million abortions performed in this country since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision have taken place if we thought human life was somehow special? In contrast, there are no known cases of frogs aborting their offspring.”
The Assemblyman said he would be willing to allow dissections of aborted human fetuses instead of animals. “The aborted human specimen can be used without affronting logical thinking,” he contended. “It is rejected biological tissue. It is also more a more appropriate specimen for students aspiring to go into medicine. So rather than continue to violate the rights of innocent animals why not make use of cast off human remains as the foundation of our high school biology instruction?”
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I don’t have a problem with this - dissecting animals in HS is mostly a waste of time - very, very few of those kids will ever go into a science where that will be required, and raising 100’s of thousands if not millions of animals just so they can be dissected by kids who will never actually need to know about it seems cruel and unnecessary.
Go off to college and start studying advanced biology, medicine, veterinary school etc? Then it can be justified.
I actually think making HS kids dissect animals at a young age may actually deter them from entering some of those fields.
Just think of them as post-mortem abortions, and all will be okay.
Really too bad that this tyrant wasn’t ‘rejected biological tissue’.
>Really too bad that this tyrant wasn’t ‘rejected biological tissue’.
If I recall this guy is of Indian decent and my guess is vegetarian.
I agree with one of the posters that it may be a waste of time to have dissections in HS science but mainly due to 1) students not really giving a crap 2) cost. If it’s an advanced class, it should be part of the course.
I remember an incident from high school algebra. We had a particularly incompetent teacher. I solved a word problem using a method that we had not yet covered in class, don’t remember the details.
Even though I got the right answer, the teacher marked it wrong because I used a method I shouldn’t have known about since we hadn’t covered it in class.
The Big Bang Theory - Penny dissects a frog
https://youtu.be/bDO9UUvAY_U?t=81
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