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

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