Title
PROHIBITING VIVISECTION
Proposition Summary
Initiative act. Declares it unlawful to dissect, vivisect or torture any living person or living animal, or aid or abet therein for purpose of experimental physiological or experimental pathological investigation in or at any university, school, society, college, hospital, institution or other place within California; declares nothing in act shall prohibit the dissection or vivisection, or aiding or abetting therein, of any living person when done with latter’s consent, or prohibit surgical operations upon or rendering medical aid in case of physical injury, deformity or sickness of any person or animal, provides penalties and repeals conflicting acts.
Proposition Number
7
Year
1920
Document Type
Proposition
Pass/Fail
Fail
Popular Vote Results
Y: 272288; A: 34.1; N: 527130; B: 65.9
Election Type
General Election
Proposition Type
Initiative
For Author
Rosemonde Rae Wright
Against Author
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Recommended Citation
PROHIBITING VIVISECTION California Proposition 7 (1920).
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/ca_ballot_props/136