What types of animal experiments does the March of Dimes fund?
The March of Dimes has funded a series of controversial experiments, including an infamous study in which newborn kittens had their eyelids sewn shut for many months before being killed in an attempt to study the effects of visual deprivation. Additional MOD-funded experiments have included a variety of studies in which cocaine, alcohol, and nicotine were administered to animals, even though we have known for years that these substances can harm developing babies. The real advances in birth defects research have come from human epidemiologic and clinical studies.
