CAARE has uncovered a decades-long cycle of cruelty at the University of Maryland-Baltimore (UMB). For over 25 years, researchers have been cutting unborn babies out of late-term pregnant baboons, claiming to study maternal-fetal circulation and the effects of low estrogen on offspring. While many of the infants are killed and dissected immediately, others are "spared"—only to be sentenced to a lifetime of further suffering and trauma.

This obsolete science is just systemic cruelty and needs to end.  Please send a strong message to UMB to end these outdated, medically futile and painfully invasive tests on baboon mothers and babies.

According to public records obtained by CAARE, surviving baby baboons will suffer through multiple invasive medical procedures before age four, like biopsies that cut out chunks of their thigh muscles. They will be subjected to perilous procedures involving wires passed through the heart, along with injections of dangerous drugs that influence pressure in the heart and vital pulmonary arteries.

It doesn’t end there. Some of the babies will undergo induced insulin surges by being pumped with glucose, acetylcholine, and phenylephrine. Something like this would never be done to human patients because it’s too dangerous.

One baboon, named Boo, exemplifies this suffering. In his short life, Boo has already suffered significantly. After enduring forced weaning and premature separation from his mother at 8 months old, records reviewed by CAARE show he was suffering from hair loss, rashes, a hernia, skin lesions and injuries deep enough to expose bone. Boo’s wounds are the hallmark of profound psychological distress resulting from attacks by cage mates and self-injury caused by extreme confinement.

CAARE is fighting for additional public records to learn if Boo is still alive or if he has already succumbed to this system. We are working tirelessly to expose the full story and secure the release of Boo and other survivors.

Your voice is the only hope these mothers and babies have for a future free from suffering. Please join CAARE today to tell UMB that it’s time to stop these hideous experiments and save the survivors.

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