** Below is a sample letter to that you can copy/paste (to the above form field) to send to the National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Optionally, you may also add your personal comments, or write your own personal letter to have even more impact. Thank you for speaking for the animals! **

Dear Secretary Sebelius and Director Collins,

I am writing to express my urgent concern that the National Institutes of Health is still supporting ethically indefensible testing on aging, sick chimps.

Please -- there has been so much data published about the advances in technology which make using chimps irrelevant, the psychological and physical torture that chimpanzees experience in labs, and the alternatives to using chimps in invasive testing -- the time has come to permanently retire all of the chimpanzees held at the Alamogordo Primate Facility, including all chimps who were shipped to outside labs.

Further, I understand that dozens of jobs and the local economy in New Mexico will suffer if 54-year-old Flo and her colleagues are shipped off to another lab, but the chimps could be retired and the facility converted to a sanctuary at a cost savings to taxpayers.

Please take action to implement the retirement and sanctuary care of these chimps, further support of invasive chimp testing will only fuel the public's mistrust of the National Institutes of Health.

Thank you for your prompt attention.

Sincerely,