The right & left hands of anti-vivisectionism have rarely known what each other were doing

Christine Stevens & Universities Federation for Animal Welfare founder Major Charles W. Hume. (AWI photo)
Conservative ideologues?

Rene Descartes’ declaration that animals have no souls opened the way for 400 years of vivisection.
(Beth Clifton collage)
Half a century of co-option
Judgement Day
Caroline Earle White
Opponents of “Darwinism”

Anna Briggs (upper right) and the St. Vincent de Paul orphanage in Washington D.C. where she was raised. See Anna Briggs lived for animal rights & no-kill before the movements existed.
Dilution of purpose?
Where White led, many followed
Opposition to vaccination
Switched sides

Eugenicist Madison Grant, DNA helix, Ota Benga, & bison. See Anna Briggs lived for animal rights & no-kill before the movements existed.
(Beth Clifton collage)
Eugenics
Nazis

The National Humane Review of March/April 1955 went barking, howling, & frothing mad over the defection of Fred Myers to form HSUS three months earlier.
It seems to me that there are anti-vivisection members of both the right & left who care for animals. This should be something we can work together on.
My mother was an ardent anti-vivisectionist and a centrist politically, and I agree with her on both counts. As primates, we are animals; and along with our own species, other species deserve compassion, respect and protection because they exist and because what we do not want done to us, we should never do to anyone else.
Sharing with gratitude and yes, hope.