Charla Nash, who underwent one of the world’s first face transplants in 2011, spoke to reporters with Connecticut Democratic Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy by her side, along with Born Free USA and the Humane Society of the United States. She then met with congressional staffers, calling for passage of Captive Primate Safety Act. The measure was actually passed by the House in 2009, but failed to gain support in the Senate. “Had this law been in effect, this would never have happened, and I don’t want something like this to ever happen to anyone else ever again,” Nash, 60, told staffers in the meeting at the Capitol.
Link: The News Times